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Deadly crash from 2018 involving Senator Menendez's wife gets new attention after indictment
wabc-tv ^ | 10-4-23 | Darla Miles

Posted on 10/05/2023 5:57:10 AM PDT by dynachrome

A 5-year-old deadly car crash is getting renewed attention because the driver is now the wife of U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, both of whom are facing federal charges alleging they took bribes.

The crash happened in December of 2018, before they were married.

Nadine Menendez was driving her Mercedes-Benz in Bogota, New Jersey, when she struck and killed a pedestrian. Police dash cam video shows her interaction with officers after the crash.

"If we can clear you from any wrongdoing, I want to get you home and comfortable and not here anymore, you know what I'm saying," a Bogota police officer says to Menendez in the dash cam video.

The crash killed 49-year-old Richard Koop, who was simply walking across the street towards his front door after taking an Uber home from a local bar.

Surveillance video shows the moment Menendez's vehicle hit Koop. Menendez denied any wrongdoing.

"I didn't do anything wrong. He jumped on my windshield," Menendez said in the dash cam video.

When police arrived, she claimed she was innocent, but said "no" when police asked if they could examine her phone, which officers often do to see if a driver was texting at the time of an accident.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc7ny.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: bobmenendez; bogota; carcrash; menendez; mercedesbenz; nadinemenendez; newjersey; richardkoop; texting; wife
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Wonder why the demo-scum want him out now?

"The same surveillance video that shows Menendez' car hitting Koop, shows her then sitting in the car for several minutes, never looking to see if the man she hit was ok. He died at the scene."

1 posted on 10/05/2023 5:57:10 AM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

> Wonder why the demo-scum want him out now? <

It makes for a nice distraction from Hunter Biden’s problems.

And when Hunter gets a slap in the wrist, Democrats can say, “We try to apply justice as evenly we can. Just look what we did to Sen. Menendez.”


2 posted on 10/05/2023 6:01:53 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Leaning Right

Precisely.


3 posted on 10/05/2023 6:03:59 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: dynachrome

Wasn’t there another Senator whose wife met an untimely death in a car accident?


4 posted on 10/05/2023 6:04:31 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: dynachrome

The poor girl, thankfully crooked Mendendez got her a new Mercedes Benz for free to sooth her pain.

These two should be in jail, this country is a sewer.


5 posted on 10/05/2023 6:06:46 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: dynachrome

Must be nice to be a Party member.


6 posted on 10/05/2023 6:11:03 AM PDT by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: dynachrome

Bogota, New Joysey? Really?


7 posted on 10/05/2023 6:12:15 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Prosecutors say Trump may have broken the law admiring gun in South Carolina" ROTFLMAO!)
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To: iontheball

Yeah, she committed suicide when she found her husband was cheating on her and the guy she drove in front of was blamed for drunk driving.


8 posted on 10/05/2023 6:12:16 AM PDT by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: dynachrome

Hmmm...would the wife of a Republican senator have been treated the same way? < /mad hilarity >


9 posted on 10/05/2023 6:28:29 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: dynachrome

Menendez is guilty of not sharing his bribes with party officials to spread around. He is greedy.


10 posted on 10/05/2023 6:40:14 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: Leaning Right
"It makes for a nice distraction from Hunter Biden’s problems."

Biden "fixer": "Sorry, Bob. You and Nadine are going to have to take one for the team. We'll provide the best defense lawyers and maybe even arrange some...uh...financial benefits to a few jurors, but we need the public's eyes off the President and his son."

Menendez: "What if I don't like that scenario? I know where a lot of the bodies are buried, if you know what I mean."

Biden "fixer": "Well Bob, that would complicate matters. Can I ask...when's the last time you updated your life insurance policy?"

11 posted on 10/05/2023 6:49:10 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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”you know what I'm saying," a Bogota police officer says to Menendez

That phrase from a New Jersey cop has particular meaning, if you know what I’m saying.

12 posted on 10/05/2023 7:03:17 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: iontheball
She was saving her young daughter from "showers with Rumpleforeskin".

Unfortunately, she was unable to save the two boys from being molested in the shower by The Big Guy.

13 posted on 10/05/2023 7:28:39 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: dynachrome
The federal indictment against the senator, his wife and two co-defendants for bribery and corruption is now shedding new light on the accident investigation.

In the indictment, it reads: "On or about September 6, 2019, Menendez met with Official-2 at Menendez's Senate office in Newark, New Jersey in an attempt, through advice and pressure, to cause Official-2 to favorably resolve the investigation."

An unidentified person is heard on the dash cam video asking one of the officers if they're going to give the case to the Prosecutor's office.

The person at the scene sounds like he or she is a connected handler of some kind, and I do wonder who Official-2 is.

14 posted on 10/05/2023 7:33:24 AM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: heartwood

According to the NYT, the man at the scene said he was a retired Hackensack police officer, and it took Nadine Menendez, as she is now, a little over 4 minutes to call 911.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/04/nyregion/nadine-menendez-mercedes-death.html


15 posted on 10/05/2023 7:51:17 AM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: dynachrome
Nadine Menendez was driving her Mercedes-Benz in Bogota, New Jersey, when she struck and killed a pedestrian.

Level five - some day I'm gonna marry that girl.

16 posted on 10/05/2023 8:47:58 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

17 posted on 10/05/2023 10:08:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Yup. Saw the clip.


18 posted on 10/05/2023 10:30:31 AM PDT by Conservat1
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To: FlingWingFlyer

pronouced Buh Go uh


19 posted on 10/05/2023 10:34:25 AM PDT by coalminersson
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To: dynachrome

She kills someone and doesn’t even get her wrist slapped... what a surprise that she was connected to a dmeocrt at the time of the killing.... Just kidding - of course nothing happened to her. We don’t have a justice system in our hellhole police state.


20 posted on 10/05/2023 1:01:44 PM PDT by GOPJ (MSNBC bimbos and pretentious 'men': "THE ELITE " ARE NOT "THE 1%". MAGA's not Marxist/Class envy..)
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