Posted on 01/11/2025 2:52:07 AM PST by Libloather
Disgraced former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez should be thrown behind bars for at least 15 years for his “naked greed” in accepting a “hoard of bribes” — including gold bars, cash and gifts, federal prosecutors said.
The 71-year-old Democrat is slated to be sentenced on Jan. 29 after he was convicted in July of accepting bribes in exchange for advancing the the interests of three Garden State businessmen and the governments of Egypt and Qatar.
The case is one of “rare gravity” — and “the first ever in which a Senator — or any other person — has been convicted of serving as a foreign agent while being a public official,” the feds wrote in a court filing late Thursday.
Menendez promised to “influence national security, including the country’s provision of large quantities of lethal military aid,” and gave up “sensitive non-public information that could put at risk US and foreign nationals serving at an embassy abroad” — among other quid pro quo arrangements, the documents claim.
The onetime chairman of the powerful Senate Committee on Foreign Relations “put his high office up for sale in exchange for this hoard of bribes,” prosecutors wrote in the papers filed in Manhattan federal court.
“The gravity of each of these promised abuses of power is only underscored by the naked greed that motivated them,” the court papers say.
Menendez, the feds have said, pocketed gold bars worth $150,000, hundreds of thousands in cash and a Mercedes convertible in the scheme — which also led to bribery and corruption charges against his wife, Nadine Menendez, and the three businessmen.
Nadine is currently slated to go on trial in February — though she is awaiting a judge’s decision on her bid to postpone the case by a few months in hopes...
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And the corrupt Biden family goes free. What a world. Sad.
Sad. Some people never learn.
If only his last name was Clinton.
Happy to see that weasel die in prison.
I wonder what Menendez did to lose the protected status normally enjoyed by rat pols?
Translation...
"All the other cases have been dismissed, bribed away, or completely ignored."
By that logic Xiden ought to die in federal prison and the corpse lie there for a century.
He is the leftist sacrificial offering.
Not nearly enough.
“Disgraced former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez should be thrown behind bars for at least 15 years for his “naked greed” in accepting a “hoard of bribes” — including gold bars, cash and gifts, federal prosecutors said.”
I had not heard anything regarding this!
Greatly appreciate and thank you for your post
I bet he doesn’t feel “disgraced.”
And the felony Biden family that took hundreds of millions from the communist CCP while VP under Obama his puppet mastrer?????
Evil Pres Jill headed the crime family and CCP sellout .
She needs to be hung for treason .
The Menendez BROTHERS otoh...
Fifteen years for some commonplace, run-of-the-mill bribery? When do we build the scaffold for the entire Biden, Obama, Kerry, Gore, and Clinton families?
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The onetime chairman of the powerful Senate Committee on Foreign Relations “put his high office up for sale in exchange for this hoard of bribes,” prosecutors wrote in the papers filed in Manhattan federal court.
“The gravity of each of these promised abuses of power is only underscored by the naked greed that motivated them,” the court papers say.
Menendez, the feds have said, pocketed gold bars worth $150,000, hundreds of thousands in cash and a Mercedes convertible in the scheme — which also led to bribery and corruption charges against his wife, Nadine Menendez, and the three businessmen.
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15 years behind bars could set a president?
if gold bar bob gets 15 years, how much time should these crooked pols get?
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I wonder if Joe Biden promised to commute or pardon his sentence?
They probably took the same train home (Delaware and New Jersey) a dozen or more times each year - for decades.
Perfect opportunity to hand off cash or discuss well paid corruption.
Exactly. I was talking to my wife about this yesterday, and how societal structure is only sustainable when citizens believe that we all have to play by the same rules. When the populace begins to see that it's all rigged, like a giant pyramid scheme that they can never win, it all starts to unravel rather quickly.
“I wonder what Menendez did to lose the protected status normally enjoyed by rat pols?”
Me too. He crossed someone.
Then there are the New York DA and Judge.
When there is no law, then there is no law
In the lawless world they created, they have no protection
At all.
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