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Former US Senator Bob Menendez sentenced to 11 years in prison in gold bar bribery case
Reuters ^ | Jan 30 | Reuters

Posted on 01/30/2025 6:59:25 AM PST by RandFan

Robert Menendez, a former United States senator representing New Jersey, has been handed an 11-year prison sentence for bribery schemes that included receiving gold bars in exchange for favours on behalf of Egypt.

In a tearful address to the court before being sentenced, Menendez said he was "chastened" by the verdict, and asked that his decades as a federal and local elected official weigh in favor of leniency.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


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To: desertsolitaire; 1Old Pro

See my post 18......apparently she’s well enough to standctrial.


21 posted on 01/30/2025 7:32:27 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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To: PeterPrinciple

“he has other information on corruption and would be willing to testify for a reduced sentence.”

Now that our team has control over the Justice Department this could be outstanding news.

He better sing like a canary—everything he knows. It could be the difference between spending time at a country club prison like Danbury, CT or a nasty place where he can count cockroaches.


22 posted on 01/30/2025 7:34:08 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: V_TWIN

“The judge ordered Menendez to begin his prison term on June 6, allowing him to attend his wife Nadine Menendez’s corruption trial starting in March.”


under the Biden administration this is a way of keeping him under their thumb with further threat.

but, there might be room for negotiation under trump. talk to us bob.


23 posted on 01/30/2025 7:39:25 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: PeterPrinciple

I wonder if he knows enough other stuff to get witness protection for him and his wife?


24 posted on 01/30/2025 7:41:54 AM PST by desertsolitaire ( Lee Harvey Oswald and the Bands final performance)
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To: All

Hey he’s just doing what Jersey politicians do!
After all it’s the Sopranos State!


25 posted on 01/30/2025 7:46:26 AM PST by Reily (a)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Surprised Joe Biden forgot to pardon him. Hear the Biden’s and Obama don’t like each other. Hear Obama headed to divorce court too.


26 posted on 01/30/2025 7:49:44 AM PST by navymom1 (I voted for President Trump!)
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To: navymom1
Hear Obama headed to divorce court too.

This would be too rich. Obama got where is is by winning elections after he got a judge to unseal divorce records from his opponents and used the records to smear the guy. He did it to get into the state senate and then again to get into the US senate.

27 posted on 01/30/2025 8:06:04 AM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: RandFan

If they are going to go after him then go after them ALL. All of them are guilty of ILLEGALITIES. NONE of them are ABOVE THE LAW.


28 posted on 01/30/2025 8:15:26 AM PST by Singermom
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To: RandFan

His last sentences in the press conference after the court session: President Trump is right!


29 posted on 01/30/2025 8:17:11 AM PST by paudio (NEW MATH: 45=47)
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To: RandFan
Menendez is likely no more or less guilty of a crime than 95% of Democrat Senators and establishment Republicans like Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham.

The real question is, what did he do to get on the wrong side of the Biden regime and Democrat party?

30 posted on 01/30/2025 8:19:41 AM PST by Kazan
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Posted without comment.

31 posted on 01/30/2025 8:31:47 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: RandFan

I love how these govt scum call their careers of looting and theft some sort of “service.”


32 posted on 01/30/2025 9:15:52 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: desertsolitaire

TRIAL OF WIFE YET TO COME. IIRC===MARCH

“BOB” BLAMED HIS WIFE FOR TAKING $$$ & GOLD BARS

WHAT A GREAT HUSBAND !!!!


33 posted on 01/30/2025 10:31:11 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: RandFan

“Its said he cried like a baby as he was carted off to prison.”

Three paras down: <>The judge ordered Menendez to begin his prison term on June 6.<>

Did you read the article you posted?


34 posted on 01/30/2025 2:41:48 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: RandFan

What happens if Nadine croaks early?


35 posted on 01/30/2025 3:32:53 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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