Posted on 09/22/2023 3:39:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A legal obstacle that helped get New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez off the hook in his 2015 federal corruption case will factor into the new criminal charges he faces in an indictment unsealed in Manhattan Friday.
The veteran Democrat, 69, was previously accused by New Jersey federal prosecutors of using his influence to help Florida eye doctor and pal Salomon Melgen in exchange for gifts and campaign contributions — but the case ended in a mistrial in 2017 when the jury deadlocked.
New Jersey federal Judge William Walls then tossed seven of the 18 charges Menendez faced, finding that prosecutors had failed to show an explicit quid pro quo with Melgen. And the remaining charges were then dropped by prosecutors, who said they wouldn’t retry the case. Walls, in his decision, said he was guided by a 2016 US Supreme Court ruling in the case against ex-Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell that narrowed the definition of an “official action” — making bribery and corruption cases against elected officials harder to prove.
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The Alt Left protects their own. Democrats NEVER take out their trash.
...unless their crackhead son drops off a laptop with all of the evidence recorded.
— making bribery and corruption cases against elected democrat officials harder to prove.
They do if he failed to give the big guy his 10%. The DOJ needs a dem fall guy to show they are "fair and impartial".
He's going down and the Alt Left is behind it. The GOP would do nothing.
Only those rats who have fallen out of grace with the rest of the rats are indicted and prosecuted, maybe he failed to share his booty with the others, greedy rat
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