Posted on 01/03/2024 12:15:42 PM PST by Red Badger
Sen. Bob Menendez is facing additional allegations contained in a superseding indictment returned Tuesday in New York.
The new allegations accuse Menendez, who has pleaded not guilty to all prior counts, of making positive comments about Qatar in exchange for items of value, including luxury wristwatches.
The luxury wristwatches Menendez was allegedly offered were valued between $10,000 and $24,000, according to the new indictment.
“How about one of these,” the indictment quoted co-defendant Fred Daibes as saying in a message he sent to Menendez along with photos of the watches.
Menendez and Daibes had attended an event in Manhattan hosted by the Qatari government, prosecutors said.
Two days later, September 29, 2021, Daibes sent Menendez a message about a Senate resolution supportive of Qatar as the Qatari Investment Company considered a real estate investment with Daibes.
By March of 2022 the Qataris were offering Nadine Menendez tickets to the Formula One Grand Prix in Florida, prosecutors said, and by 2023 the Qatari Investment Company completed a joint venture with Daibes worth tens of millions of dollars.
Thereafter, according to the indictment, Menendez “continued to receive things of value” from the Qataris.
A previous superseding indictment filed in October said Menendez “made multiple requests for the U.S. Department of Justice to commence an investigation against another person for allegedly failing to register under FARA.”
That indictment, filed in Manhattan federal court, said the conspiracy occurred from January 2018 to June 2022. It included four new charges and appears to mark the first time a sitting member of Congress has ever been charged with conspiracy for a public official to act as a foreign agent.
The October charge came just weeks after the Democrat and his wife were accused of accepting bribes of cash, gold bars and a luxury car from three New Jersey businessmen who wanted the senator to help and influence over foreign affairs. The couple have pleaded not guilty.
Menendez, 69, has previously insisted that he did nothing unusual to assist Egypt and that prosecutors had misunderstood the work of a senator involved in foreign affairs.
Authorities who searched Menendez’s home last year said they found more than $100,000 worth of gold bars and over $480,000 in cash – much of it hidden in closets, clothing and a safe.
Well, son of a bitch......
RE: I didn’t know you could buy a senator so cheap!....
It’s because the politicians are of such low value today compared to earlier crooked ones.
“We have the best government money can buy!” - Mark Twain.................
Heck, even I could afford a senator or two!..............
Good quote.
If they stray then (Jack Warden in movie Used Cars:)
Roy L. Fuchs:
I’ll tell you something. This country is going to the dogs. You know, it used to be when you bought a politician, that son of a b*tch stayed bought.
Since none of his other crimes resulted in anything, why should this move the needle.
Get him. Throw the book at him. He is unworthy of his office.
It’s New Joisey. Fugeddaboudit.................
Menendez must be a member of the Soprano family.
But OTOH, the Sopranos weren’t stupid.
Praising Qatar is not an “official act” by a US Senator(as the Supreme Court has construed it), so this bribery charge is invalid, as the prosecutor must already know. So my question is why the Biden DOJ is targeting Menendez in particular? The last time he was indicted(during the Obama years) it seemed to be due to Iran policy, and I wonder if this time it is the same thing.
Didn’t pay his 10% to the Big Guy?.....................
"The senators…are f***ing cheap – you got 10 grand, you can buy a senator," he remarked.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/blackrock-recruiter-claims-senators-can-be-bought-10k-war-good-business-okeefe
As opposed to his senatorial colleagues, Menendez screwed up and got caught.
Possibly, or perhaps the Biden DOJ actually reports to Obama?
This is NJ, so the seat is a "safe" dem seat. His fellow dems can take the 'moral high ground' by insisting that he step down, knowing full well that his replacement will be a dem.
It's no coincidence that a previously downplayed story from 2018 has suddenly resurfaced. where Mrs. Menendez was involved in a fatal car accident where she hit a guy crossing the street in front of his own house and killed him.
When the machine wants you gone because you are bringing too much heat on the party, you will be gone. The question is, will he do it the easy way or the hard way? So far, Menendez is doing it the hard way, so all of the skeletons will be pulled from their closets until he steps down.
Once the machine props you up, they own you and can take you down just as easily.
The crook should resign, his fellow Senators should expel him if he doesn’t.
D.C is 90% whores and 10% statemen follow the money trail.
Rush taps box
I thought these were federal charges.
The Democrats are afraid they might lose that seat.
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