Posted on 05/12/2024 9:36:17 AM PDT by USA-FRANCE
Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey faces his second, distinct bribery and corruption trial in seven years starting Monday. This new case is a complicated affair involving multiple gold bars, envelopes of cash, a Mercedes and a lot more that, prosecutors say, the powerful former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his new wife (they got married during the alleged bribery scheme) obtained in exchange for helping a halal meat monopoly, granting favors for people from Egypt and Qatar and trying to influence a New Jersey prosecution.
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Menendez stupidly violated Federal guidelines for approved corruption.
1. Do not make your grift so blatant that even the MSM cannot deny it
2. Do not piss off/embarrass Party leaders
he didn’t understand ...”10&% for The Big Guy”...
Cheap.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/finance/blackrock-recruiter-says-10k-can-buy-senator-calls-ukraine-war-good
Or to prove you cannot successfully prosecute a Democrat
Say, have you noticed that faggot Mike Johnson has suddenly done a 180 on everything he said he once stood for?
Indeed Biden is an icon of the democrat party.
So, you buy gold, and it goes to $3,000 an ounce. You need a half gallon of milk and a loaf of bread, which due to inflation has gone to twelve bucks. Who will and how will they make change for your one-ounce gold bar? Do they just whack a fragment off of the corner as payment?
No, you take a fractional 1/10th Eagle or better yet trade a US 1964 silver dime or quarter…your scenario of “ shaving off pieces” is being done in Venezuela, many videos available.
That pre- 65 silver Dime is today worth $2.10….it has long been noticed that two silver dimes buys a gal of gas….
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