Posted on 01/09/2024 11:28:30 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
An emotional Sen. Bob Menendez took to the floor of the upper chamber on Tuesday to denounce what he called his “persecution” by the Justice Department following new bribery allegations tying him to a Qatar-based real estate investment firm linked to that country’s royal family.
“The United States Attorney’s Office has engaged not in a prosecution, but a persecution. They seek a victory, but not justice,” Menendez (D-NJ) declared of his second superseding indictment in the Southern District of New York.
“By filing three indictments — one in late September, a second one a few weeks later in mid-October and a third one just last week in early January — it allows the government to keep the sensational story in the press, it poisons the jury pool and it seeks to convict me in the court of public opinion,” he added.
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Gee! What is it with these elected politicians? Perhaps it’s in DC water supply. Probably piped out of a swamp.
This jerk has gotten away with so much. I hope this one sticks.
Menendez was found to be in possession of gold bars traced to an earlier robbery, e.g. stolen property, a felony in itself.
I am not a crook!
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