Report: Indicted Sen. Menendez Won’t Seek Re-Election in November
He refuses to resign.
Sources have told The New York Post that Sen. Bob Menendez, who faces 18 federal charges, will not seek re-election in November.
People have been calling for Menendez to resign, but that won’t happen. He told Forbes when asked about re-election, he said, “Ah, that’s another question.”
The news comes the day after the feds revealed two new charges against Menendez and his wife Nadine. They now face 18 counts, including bribery and obstruction of justice.
One of the men involved in the alleged bribery scheme pleaded guilty this week and agreed to cooperate with the feds:
Menendez, 70, and his wife Nadine Arslanian, 56, were charged Tuesday in a fresh indictment with lying to federal investigators and obstructing justice while Menendez was charged with acting as an unregistered agent of the government of Qatar.
That added to charges which were first brought in October accusing the couple of accepting gold bars and nearly $500,000 in cash in exchange for favors to New Jersey businessmen and the Egyptian government.
The Southern District of New York brought charges against Menendez and Nadine in September for allegedly accepting “hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes” to protect three New Jersey businessmen and work on behalf of Egypt.
The feds allege the Menendezes “accepted cash, gold, payments toward a home mortgage, compensation for a low or-no-show job, a luxury vehicle, and other things of value.”
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So we will get stuck with Phil Murphy’s wife. Not any better.
Well, the Dem sheep in NJ will just elect another liberal/progressive, with the added bonus of being the wife of the rich/liberal/progressive governor. No conflict of interest there, no sir.
How is it a conflict of interest for a state’s senator to be married to the state’s governor? Both are supposed to represent the state’s interests, after all.
First, they are not working for the state’s interests, they are working for the party’s interests. Second, while it is not officially a conflict of interest, it is nepotism and unseemly. Are you telling me that in a state of 9 million people – mostly leftist – you can’t find another candidate for this position?
Really?
Full disclosure – I live in the People’s Socialist Republic of NJ.
It would be nepotism if he appointed her. How is it nepotism if she wins a primary, fair and square?
It Santos had to be thrown out
The House held its own investigation of the charges against Santos and determined them to be valid. The senate has not investigated Menendez, so it doesn’t know him to be guilty and shouldn’t just suppose it. The state was just as confident of his guilt the first time, but the jury disagreed; there’s no reason to suppose it won’t happen again.
Menendez’s problems were just as serious, if not more so. But you know very well that you get a free pass when you are a Democrat/Marxist, because of their control of the media.
Good thing he’s a Democrat! Otherwise, he’d be in a lot of trouble.
but he will get his pension …
and prob avoid a trial …and prison
now if he was a republican ..
Katie bar the door …
How would he avoid a trial? Given his experience with trials, would he even want to?
Can NJ Democrats resurrect The Torch?
After all, Torricelli only had a campaign finance kerfuffle.
Or maybe Knees
The heck with ‘Refuses to resign’. How about ‘Put in prison’ instead?
Without a conviction?! What the hell are you on about?
If he’s convicted, prison is a certainty. But premature gallinaceous censuses are contraindicated.
Is an asterick really required for a comment like mine?
I met this a-hole once, and gave him a piece of my mind.
It was at a Memorial Day ceremony in Batonne, NJ about fifteen years ago. I was sounding Taps, he was there to spew his usual lies.
While we were both waiting, I asked him how he could justify voting in favor of sending our troops to Iraq and then voting against funding basic provisions for them, like body armor, armore personnel carriers, ammo, and othet supplies.
“Might as well line up our children and shoot them yourself”, I told him.
If you’re going to send our boys to war, you have a duty to support them while they are there.
Effing scum.
Him and every other Dem that’s ever existed. Satan had to construct a tenth circle of Hell just for them.
“while Menendez was charged with acting as an unregistered agent of the government of Qatar.”
But that’s something they can charge any old schmo with.
Doesn’t it count for anything that this “agent of a foreign government” was a U.S. Senator???
If he’s convicted, then it will certainly count at sentencing. As a charge, being a senator doesn’t make it a different crime.
Menendez has been corrupt for a very long time and like Brandon, everyone ignored it because he was on the right team.
The Mercedes was used. That says it all.