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Gold bars, basement carpeting and more. Here’s what prosecutors say bought off a US senator
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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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: bobmenendez; dontcrossbiden; egypt; gold; newjersey; qatar
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1 posted on 05/12/2024 9:36:17 AM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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Why didn’t Menendez just do insider trading and get rich like all the other congress critters?


2 posted on 05/12/2024 9:41:55 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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I wonder how many have been purchased the same way


3 posted on 05/12/2024 9:45:21 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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> granting favors for people from Egypt and Qatar <

Pennsylvania Sen. Fetterman calls Menendez “a Senator from Egypt, not New Jersey”.

If Fetterman keeps on being sensible (for a Democrat, that is) he might find himself in a bit of trouble with the Senate’s good-old-boy network.


4 posted on 05/12/2024 9:48:02 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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And yet George Santos is kicked out of office and pretty much no one is talking about, or cares about this decades known corrupt crook. Now, why is that? Anyone hear any Republican talking about indicted this guy? Anyone?


5 posted on 05/12/2024 9:53:21 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: USA-FRANCE

Trump and Menendez are blood brothers now, in a certain sense.

Both are simultaneously receiving the brutal and drawn-out “othering” treatment by the seemingly anonymous powers-that-be embedded within the opaque Brandon regime.


6 posted on 05/12/2024 9:53:24 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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Whatever they’re accusing him of, Bob didn’t do it. HE DIDN’T DO IT, I TELL YA! Besides, the wifey is the guilty one. Heck, he isn’t even a RAT anymore. Please give him your vote in November.


7 posted on 05/12/2024 10:01:22 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: USA-FRANCE

When are Cueller and Menendez going to get the same colonoscopy from the DNC Mafia thugs that Trump has been getting for the past 8 years? Crime in America has been severely neglected since everyone with a badge and blue alphabet windbreaker decided to go vigilante against Trump, his family, friends and associates.


8 posted on 05/12/2024 10:03:58 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Weird how the invading hordes of illegal foreign deadbeats didn't start until FJB took the throne.)
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To: Obadiah

Since his trial starts Monday it looks like he has been indicted.


9 posted on 05/12/2024 10:07:13 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: USA-FRANCE

I’d prefer efficiency in the matter by simply having my basement carpeted with gold bars. No point in getting greedy.


10 posted on 05/12/2024 10:09:56 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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they got married during the alleged bribery scheme...

...so they can invoke spousal privilege if they ever got caught?

-PJ

11 posted on 05/12/2024 10:10:17 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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No doubt planted by PDJT operatives.


12 posted on 05/12/2024 10:12:31 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: one guy in new jersey

Menendez was against the Iran deal I believe so that’s a no no from the commies


13 posted on 05/12/2024 10:16:42 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: USA-FRANCE

Under the Supreme Court’s McDonnell decision I doubt that Menendez is legally guilty of bribery. My guess is he is being prosecuted because shadow-president Obama doesn’t like him.


14 posted on 05/12/2024 10:17:31 AM PDT by devere
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Notice how this isn’t in the MSM? This dude and his wife are corrupt as the day is long, and ... crickets


15 posted on 05/12/2024 10:22:39 AM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: USA-FRANCE

Like universities, did they sell their soul to the Middle East?


16 posted on 05/12/2024 10:51:48 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: KarlInOhio

Wow. Totally missed that.😗 Thanks for the update.


17 posted on 05/12/2024 10:53:18 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: USA-FRANCE

And no one noticed anything until recently.


18 posted on 05/12/2024 11:16:32 AM PDT by dynachrome ("God grant I don't outlive my wits.")
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To: USA-FRANCE

Everyone laughs at the “ Gold bars”, he obviously knows something- like our unpayable debt, paper printing into oblivion…..it has been widely reported ALL Central Banks are buying Gold in historic quantities….just because he is a crook doesn’t mean he doesn’t know what is happening to US hegemony and our bankruptcy.


19 posted on 05/12/2024 11:54:20 AM PDT by delta7
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CNN — No thanks. CNN is the enemy. Why support these scum suckers by encouraging traffic to its website?


20 posted on 05/12/2024 11:56:36 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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