Sen Menendez and wife indicted on bribery charges

You are so old-fashioned in your values. Loyalty to the United States is such an outdated standard.

I hope you realize I'm being facetious

 

In the pocket of Big Pyramid all along, corruption rules

 

Can anyone honestly disagree about the power dynamic?

Despite this, I believe that any effort by McDonnell was nothing more than window dressing to appease Jonnie Williams. Doesn't excuse McDonnell from taking the gifts and cash or even making the phone calls, of course.

 

You may have read through the details more recently than i. And remember, if you're only reliant upon the Supreme Court opinion, it will necessarily select only certain facts. But I may have to look at it again. I thought it was strong evidence of more direct pressure

 

I def agree that SCOTUS cherry picked facts to justify their effed decision.

Relying on memory too.

 

OMG is this clever and brutal

 

Menendez Faces a New Charge: Aiding the Qatari Governmen

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez accused of receiving gifts linked to Qatar investment

 

Someone didn’t get the memo to ole Bob that he needed to wash those gifts with an Egyptian oil firm and a crooked Egyptian prosecutor.

 

Wife is requesting a separate trial. She's going to try and blame it all on him.

MSN
In the document, Nadine Menendez's lawyers said a joint trial will prejudice her right to defend herself at a fair trial. They added that a joint trial would force the married defendants to make a Hobson's choice "as exercising their right to testify in their own defense may necessitate waiving their privilege against providing testimony adverse to their spouse."

Ms. Menendez's interests in both maintaining the confidentiality of her privileged marital communications and exercising her spousal testimonial privilege without sacrificing her ability to testify in her own defense collectively support a finding of a 'serious risk' that a joint trial will compromise her 'specific trial rights,'" the lawyers said.

 

This is obviously an election interference witch hunt by crooked Joe Biden. Did I say that right?

 

So, does the Senate Dems wait for conviction to remove him or will they remove him now?

 

They're both requesting separate trials. I wonder if the government is going to oppose their motions.
Menendez files motion to change trial venue, separate his trial from that of his wife - New Jersey Globe

 

Blame each other to create reasonable doubt?

 

Maybe although I don't think it will work. Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife tried that tactic in his corruption trial. He was found guilty although his conviction was ultimately reversed because the government failed to establish a strong enough link between the gratuities that McDonnell received and his behavior to meet the the statutory definition of corruption.
Former Virginia Governor and Former First Lady Convicted on Public Corruption Charges

 

ruh roh raggy.

Co-defendant of Sen. Bob Menendez pleads guilty in bribery scheme, will cooperate with feds (msn.com)

A New Jersey businessman charged alongside Sen. Bob Menendez in his sweeping Manhattan bribery case copped to a litany of charges Friday and is cooperating against the embattled pol.

Jose Uribe pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery, honest services wire fraud, obstruction of justice, tax evasion and related conspiracy counts at an unannounced proceeding in Manhattan federal court, admitting that he paid thousands towards a sports car for Menendez’s wife and co-defendant, Nadine Arslanian.

Uribe is cooperating against the senator, who’s headed to trial in May, according to a copy of his plea agreement obtained by the Daily News.

 

Menendez: “He’s just a coffee boy, I’d never even heard of this guy”.

 

Even Democrats be crooks. Trump leads the line.