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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“ I wonder what Menendez did to lose the protected status normally enjoyed by rat pols?”
He didn’t kick back 10 percent to Biden.
Was Menendez instrumental in the prison sentence of Tom delay?
Just looked at “congressmen who went to prison” and wow! There were a bunch of them. Dangerous profession I guess.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_federal_politicians_convicted_of_crimes
Tom Delay was a great whip, haven’t had another like him since!!
I agree.
Hard to beleive it was 23 years ago he was arrested.
First ever in which a Senator — or any other person — has been convicted of serving as a foreign agent while being a public official.
Guess the feds can’t find the big office in the WH?.
And lost someone’s records?.
It amazing what happens when the big guy doesn’t get his 10%.
If you’re taking bribes, why would you take something so ostentatious as a Mercedes convertible? That car screams - come and get me to investigators. A junior G-man graduate fresh out of Penn State could make the connection between the car and a bribe.
This case validates for me the fact that the deep state is composed of vulgar morons and drooling clods. This case also signals to me that hundreds of deep state drunks and perverts are going to prison.
This what happens when you forget to give the Big Guy his 10%
I wonder who he dissed to get to this? Usually, democrats protect their own to the bitter end.
Bob Menendez should be thrown behind bars for at least 15 years
Only because he didn’t share.
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