Sen Menendez and wife indicted on bribery charges

Menendez is charged with the crime of doing what the Senate Foreign Affairs committee does: participate in bribery and corruption – although the pretending term is “lobbying.”

 

I mean who doesn't have $480k in cash stuffed into various locations around the house, just in case you know

Federal agents found more than $480,000 in cash 'stuffed into envelopes and hidden in clothing' in Sen. Bob Menendez's home, indictment says (msn.com)

That included more than $480,000 in cash that was "stuffed into envelopes and hidden in clothing, closets, and a safe."

 

This is bullshit. Is there anyone on here who doesn’t have a few hundred thousand dollars in cash stuffed in their underwear and weighted down by a couple of gold bars?

 

I offshore that in the caymans. Sounds like Bob should have done the same but in Egypt…

 

Four paragraphs?

 

What is interesting to me is that CNN, MSNBC and other cable outlets who the right loves to criticize as biased are roundly criticizing Menedez. Contrast that with the right's treatment of Trump for conduct at least as egregious. (Did Fox ever criticize our mentally ill former president?) Indeed, a majority of republicans still support him, or make excuses for his serial reprehensible conduct.

 

I understood the rule was for copyright. But that’s a USSC opinion that could not be copyrighted. But I can trim if needed

 

For some reason the case of William Jefferson comes to mind. For those who do not remember former Congressman Jefferson gave new meaning to the phrase "cold hard cash".
Former congressman convicted in freezer cash case
Thanks to SCOTUS decision in the Bob McDonnell case, Jefferson was later released from prison. Unfortunately for Menendez the government's case against him appears to be much stronger than the cases against McDonnell and Jefferson.

 

No, it's for everything. Otherwise, someone could post the entire Mueller report, for example.
thanks

 

Fixed. Sorry

 

Party definitely not standing behind him

 

Wouldn't surprise me if Booker was also padding his nest on the side

 

Why would you say that? He does such up and protect Wall Street and especially private equity, but you can’t really represent New Jersey or New York without doing so. It’s more like protecting the home business as all elected officials do

 

I hope not. I really like him.

 

He has a really funny line in his stump speech about getting into Stanford from New Jersey. He said it was his 4.7 that got him in. For most of the rest of the freshman class it was their GPA, for him it was his 40 time

 

Defends Menendez
Defends PE
Seems to be in it for himself and enjoys the trappings of his position

 

Fair enough, although I see defending private equity as just part of the job if you represent New Jersey. I don't like it but I don't view it as any sign of special individual corruption.

 

Reading background, it appears that there will be a reluctance for Dems to call en masse for him to resign. Apparently, given that he escaped conviction before even before the recent USSC precedents, there is a strong belief he will avoid conviction. He will never resign and is apparently very vindictive and will exact all types of vengeance if they call for him to resign.