Sen. Bob Menendez Verdict: GUILTY
Menendez faced 18 federal charges, including bribery, extortion, fraud, acting as a foreign agent, and obstruction.
A jury found Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) guilty on all counts.
Menendez faced 18 federal charges, including bribery, extortion, fraud, acting as a foreign agent, and obstruction.
The Southern District of New York charged Menendez and Nadine in September with 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.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called on Menendez to resign now that a jury found him guily.
In light of this guilty verdict, Senator Menendez must now do what is right for his constituents, the Senate, and our country, and resign.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) July 16, 2024
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Someone needed to be sacrificed so that Joe Biden can appear “clean.”
Good on you being that lamb, Bob.
Part of the “nobody is above the law” farce that Biden is pushing?
Expulsion now.
Nope.
“Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called on Menendez to resign now that a jury found him guily”
Did the Republicans “call on’ Santos to resign?
I’m pretty sure they did, and only moved to expel him when he refused. I expect Schumer will move to expel Menendez, but he’ll need Republican votes to pass it, and if I were a Republican senator I would vote “no”. Why do the Dems favors?
Also I’m not convinced of his guilt. I think they’re still angry that the jury didn’t buy their narrative last time, so they tried again. We’ll see what happens on appeal.
Remember that his doing favors for people is not a crime, and neither is his receiving gifts; the crime is that he either solicited the gifts as payment for the favors, or knew that his wife was doing so, and I didn’t see the prosecution present actual evidence of this.
he will replaced by another dem appointed by the dem NJ Gov, unlike the house where there is an election to replace a member
Before sentencing, he should publicly proclaim that Trump made him do it.
Again? Doesn’t he get periodically convicted, then rises from the political grave like a corrupt socialist zombie?
His voters speak. He’s an example of “he’s a crooked son of a bitch, but he’s OUR crooked son of a bitch!”.
Nope. He’s never been convicted before, and don’t be so sure this conviction will stand.
Charged never convicted until now.
Guess the jury didn’t buy him trying to pin it all on the wife……
Ahh, you beat me
At least as far as I saw, the only evidence was against the wife, not against him. She solicited gifts, promising that her husband would do favors in return. If he was unaware of this then he’s not guilty. He could be aware that his wife has friends who need favors, and when she asks him he does them; he could even also be aware that his wife has friends who give her generous gifts. The one thing the prosecution had to prove he knew was that she was soliciting the gifts in return for asking him to do the favors, and I didn’t see them prove that.
Honestly, I’m not surprised. Juries generally look very dimly on acts of public corruption which is exactly why you see Jesse Jackson, Jr getting convicted in Chicago and a string of horribly corrupt mayors/judges/prosecutors getting convicted in places like Detroit & Baltimore even though these are all ‘home team’ players.
and he was running as an Independent in NJ in a hotly contested senate election… if not for that, I doubt they would have charged him.
You have that backwards: the charges came first, and he decided to run as an independent only after he saw that, as a result of the charges, he wouldn’t win the primary.
No, I don’t think the prosecution was political, I think it was the same kind of zealous “good government” overreach that went after his last time, and that went after Ted Stevens, Bob McConnell, Conrad Black, and so many others. The supreme court keeps knocking these cases down and they keep coming because a certain type of prosecutor simply doesn’t accept that this is the law.
He’s such a proud Cuban we should send him to a Havana dungeon to serve out his sentence.
Gitmo would be an acceptable site,.
schmuer of course gets noooo …he did the right thing by calling for the resignation
its just so he can act like he is unbiased
menendez offers no juice for the rest of the dnc so he is expendable
dems just want to use ,,as they have done with fjb and the age issue
so they can continue to go after trump with anyyyy type of moral high ground they think they can find
f the left
ffff the left
I cackled when I saw it on TV on my floor’s reception area.
Menendez makes Dolla Bill Jefferson look like a Boy Sprout.
As a New Jerseyan, I can tell you that this won’t make much difference, it just means that the seat will be rigged for Andy Kim (the Congressman, not the pop singer) in November.
Not to defend him on everything else (he was clearly guilty of everything else) but the “acting as a foreign agent” is a horrible precedent because everyone at a certain level is acting in many peoples interests.
It is a terrible precedent.
If they could prove that the Egyptian and/or Qatari governments were paying him, then they had that one right. But I didn’t see them prove it. His simply doing them favors doesn’t make him their agent.
I completely agree, I am afraid for what that precedent means for the future of the country.
Interesting you can have a bribery trial with so little being released about who was doing the bribing.
How so? The alleged bribers were all named, and were either co-defendants or witnesses.
He is a senior Leftist Senator. He has been convicted of massive bribery and being an agent of foreign countries acting against the United States. He will not see the inside of a jail cell or receive any penalty that will not be paid by someone else. Any other result would be political heresy.
Subotai Bahadur
Don’t resign bobby. Make sure America knows that greed is above country by democrats elected to office.
They had more than enough to convict him at least twenty years ago.
Probably more like thirty.
No, they didn’t, as evidenced by the fact that they tried and failed. At least some jurors accepted his explanation that he had a good friend for whom he did favors, as friends do for each other, and who gave him gifts, as friends do, but there was no quid pro quo; the favors were not done in exchange for the gifts and the gifts were not payment for the favors. That is perfectly legal, despite several high-profile prosecutors’ refusal to accept that.