There’s no sympathy for Bob Menendez at all; however, all things considered, he was convicted of doing the same thing that every Senator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee does, and the same thing that Joe Biden did for decades… Sell the influence of their office to foreign countries. They all do it.
The difference with Senator Bob Menendez was only that he was so open about doing it, and he dropped all the pretenses that usually provide the plausible deniability factor. Today the judge sentenced him to 11-years in federal prison.
WASHINGTON – […] A jury in July found Menendez, along with Edgewater developer Fred Daibes and Egyptian American businessman Wael Hana, guilty on all charges related to the bribery scheme. Daibes was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined $1.75 million. Hana was sentenced to a little more than eight years in prison and fined $1.3 million. Menendez was not fined for his part in the corruption.
The trial hinged on accusations that Menendez used his political might to influence criminal investigations involving the two businessmen and helped direct billions in U.S. aid to Egypt to bolster their business dealings. In exchange, Menendez and his wife, Nadine Arslanian Menendez, received gifts including gold bars, cash and luxury cars.
Menendez, 71, represented New Jersey for more than 18 years in the U.S. Senate. He resigned in August after the convictions. (read more)
A little flicker of justice in a very dark night.
For a D pol to go to prison means he shafted another D/other Ds big time.
This is not justice. It is a warning to the other senators to be appropriately discrete.
I see the capital hill mafia punish a member for getting out of line. How can you describe that as justice?
Let’s hope the first of very many
Not enough, but if he serves 11 years, which he won’t, kind of a life sentence for the old guy
You wonder how dumb you must be to hide gold bars at your house
That’s probably why they dropped the hammer on him. Getting sloppy exposes the rest of them. Like Hollywood coming down on Harvey Weinstein. Dropping the hammer on the obvious ones is just cleaning up loose ends.
Will not be surprised is Menendez is whacked in prison.
Oh, he’ll be whacking all right…
Dumb?
Or arrogant…
Hubris, then nemesis.
No reason it can’t be both.
Dumb as a box of hair!!💁🏻♀️
and $ 425,000 in the cash….
you or i would be smart enough to factor that in, however, a senator, not so much. obviously
Let’s hope it is the beginning of a trend.
Many more need to join him.
It’s hard to get too excited about his conviction/sentence when there are SOOO many bigger fish who deserve prison, but I guess we have to take any justice/accountability where we can get it.
Esecially since the reason he was singled out, was because on a couple of crucial issues he crossed swords with the Obama regine.
If anyone wonders why the Dems vote in lockstep, THIS is why, as they are making an example of him.
Menendez is dirty, but it wasn’t his grifting that brought him down. It was his outright opposition to the “Iran Nuclear Deal” that drew a target on him in the eyes of Obama and his Iranian-loving foreign policy gang.
And Cuba, too.
Both of Obankster’s favorite military dictatorships.
Correct. Also, he failed to give 10% to the big guy.
Yes, so to paraphrase the Soup Nazi, “No pardon for YOU!”
I think Trump should EO a thorough investigation into the finances of every sitting Senator and member of Congress…Republican and Democrat.
I can hear Trump saying, “You want to cheat the American people out of a safe country, a wealthy country, a healthy country, a strong country…a great country? Well, we are going to root out corruption and we’re going to start by investigating everyone in both chambers. Whatever we find on you, good or bad, we will tell the American people.”
That’s not how they play the game
It should be.
The President only oversees the Executive Branch. He has no say over Congress
The President has plenary power over many agencies through which Congress and Friends funnel money to their various “off the top skimming schemes”.
One would think that he could request audits of all of his agencies including tracing where the money went.
Yep. Do it “innocently” under DOGE. Before mapping a Future state, you need a Current state assessment via audit. Then act surprised with a “lookie here what we found!”
The Department of Justice and the FBI are part of the Executive Branch. No one is above the law, the Dept of Justice and / or FBI can certainly investigate any member of congress.
I sure would like to see some large piles of dirt to nail Bragg and James. It would be great to see them both in gitmo with the illegal aliens or in local prisons wearing orange jumpsuits.
“I’m innocent! I’m innocent!”, he professes as he has to surrender the gold bars.
These people so abuse their positions. Its revolting.
1 down, 88 to go
1 down, 534 to go….fixed it for you 🖖🏻
do not count Massie…….
They are ALL guilty in one way or another, that’s how they got the job, prison is a light sentence in my opinion ; they All should be hung and their bodies left to desiccate in the wind for the next person to see what happens when they forgo the oath they gave.
What no Biden pardon, must of have not sent 10% to the Big Guy.
I have a feeling President Trump will pardon him. The pos Senator Menendez doesn’t deserve it. If the roles were reversed Menendez would let President Trump rot in prison.
Menendez is lucky President Trump is now President.
I may be wrong, but I know President Trump has a heart.
You may be right. But it will be after Bob spends a few years with new friends.
Menendez’ wife was given a “no-show” job. Maybe they can return the money to the taxpayers in one of many good will gestures.
Don’t count on it.
It has been evident many times that President Trump has a heart. Everytime he’s introduced a mother who lost her child, when he’s greeted families of veterans who were killed in action, when he has stood up for the working man or woman, when he’s preached about the necessity of protecting children. And when he’s complained about Americans’ loss of liberties and the injustices done to our country. Yes, he has a heart.
Menendez celebrated both of Trumps impeachment trials.
I doubt he will be pardoned.
He is not going to pardon him! He is cleaning house.
The J6ers were set up & railroaded and he knows that;
I think he’s unlikely to pardon actual criminals.
I hope not because of what no one has posted yet.
Remember when ;
Bob got caught with 14 year old ( iirc), Dominican Republic girls ?
The Senate was big angry and was going to censure, or remove him.
But alas, it was not to be as Bob was doing the deed with minor girls in a ‘ foreign’ country.
He is no different than the rest, but sloppy Bob was, sloppy.
The fact that he was prosecuted for what they all do . . . suggests that he was one of the good ones, or that he threatened the others in some way.
Perhaps President Trump could reduce his sentence in exchange for testimony against the other senators?
He would be “Epsteined” before that happens, I would imagine.
Trump would need to put him in protective custody or witness protection. But if Menendez is willing to clean up the swamp he would be more deserving of a pardon than Sen. Adam Schiff. IMHO
He got sloppy.
That’s the threat.
He thought he was untouchable
RIGHT !!! What I really want to know is why Menendez got singled out? Probably the vast majority of Senators are on the take, so why would they go after someone on the Democratic team? I have no proof of anything, but after all that we have seen from the DOJ/FBI I am willing to entertain the idea (10% chance) that he got set-up, like Blagovitch. There is way more to this than we are being told IMHO.
This is interesting:
‘Trump is right’: Menendez decries ‘corrupted’ justice system after 11-year sentence
“Only in the Southern District of New York would you allow a witness to walk away from 10 criminal charges including defrauding the United States government so they can get him to lie on the stand,” Menendez said. “Welcome to the Southern District of New York. The Wild West of political prosecution.”
Menendez expressed his hope that President Donald Trump would restore “integrity” to the federal justice system.
“President Trump is right. This process is political and corrupted to the core. I hope President Trump cleans up this cesspool and restores integrity to the system.”
Attorneys for the former senator will also focus on the constitutionality of the first ever use of the charge of “officers and employees acting as agents of foreign principals” against a member of congress, the motion said.
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2025/01/29/nj-bob-menendez-sentencing-federal-bribery-charges/77971336007/
So, we are to believe that a thoroughly corrupt FBI/DOJ/SDNY, “like a blind squirrel gets an acorn once in a while”? MAYBE. I think something bigger and more corrupt is going on behind the scenes. IMHO
Seems like totally trumped-up Lawfare charges. Used SDNY Lawfare to indict and try him because the New Jersey jury refused! Garland then twisted the jurisdiction from New Jersey to New York where he knew it was easy to convict.
What did Menendez do that is any different than Schumer, Schiff or Nadler except the $$$ came from a different country? Why do politicians like Schumer and Blumenthal get hundreds of thousands of dollars from Israel and then lobby for Israel aid.
Is it illegal to have US currency and solid gold bars in your house (Solid gold. Is there any other kind?).
There’s absolutely nothing Menendez did that’s any different from the other 99 Senators. There’s got to be an underlying reason for Obama’s hatred of the guy. Do they want his Senate seat for someone?
Reminds me of when Martha Stewart went to prison for what Pelosi does on the regular.
Exactly! Menendez must have really pissed off Obama. They’ve been gunning for the guy at least 10 years.
Aren’t Senators flying to Ukraine delivering checks and kissing Zelensky’s ring?
I just don’t see the difference.
Menendez put a bucket full of sand in the gears when Obama was making moves to normalize relations with Cuba. Long knives been out for him ever since.
Menendez wasn’t on boars with the uniparty’s Iran policy as I recall. That’s when they started the investigations.
He supported Egypt. He was against the Iran Deal.
(Solid gold. Is there any other kind?)
pyrite, gold leaf, gold plate, 10 carat, 14 carat, 18 carat, 22 carat, etc.
But!!!! It sets a marvelous precedent! Now, let’s do the rest of the Washington, D.C. crowd.
Primary mission of the new FBI should be political corruption investigations.
Oh, great! more Abscam cases…not what we need.
One in prison, 534 to go!
minus Massie….
The only reason they FINALLY went hard after Menendez was because they wanted to appear fair & balanced against the political, targeted, selective and preposterous cases they were manufacturing against Trump and Bobby Boy was low-hanging fruit.
Now Trump has gained the presidency and NJ has lost a Senator.
Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together ❓🤔🤣
TBH, I believe Biden is the worst offender of them all.
没错！
This photo is personally revolting to me. The absolute hubris and lack of any moral conviction, they all yuk it up, as if to say haha you Americans are so gullible and ignorant, hehe. It is despicable! And I mean Rubio too!!!
It’s like Ned Beatty’s senator character in “Shooter” with Mark Walburg. Very arrogant about their position.
The Senate has been made a House of Lords.
Subservient not to citizens but to foreign powers.
Repeal the Seventeenth!
Repeal the 17th !!! that put a Fatal Knife in the Republic.
Says a lot about the pervasiveness of the practice when this one was dumb enough to get caught for it without really trying to hide it.
The sheer banality of it. Worse,
this one was only a piker.
May he rot in hell
Congress is really 535 temple monkeys pawing through the ashes of America, searching for bribes.
Well said.
I’m not slick enough to coin such comments. This quote is from the always enjoyable Charlie Reese.
It does ring true though.
The first time they tried to get him it was because he didn’t back the Iran deal. That went nowhere… then he opposed illegal immigration and BOOOOOOM!
I have no pity for him, but I find it disgusting that they get away with committing such crimes UNLESS they go against the grain.
How many others are toeing a line that goes against the voters because they are corrupted and blackmailed?
Menendez has a significant anti-Castro Cuban constituency and he spoke out against the 0bama / Biden outreach to the communist scumbags who run that country.
That was a factor in all this too.
If I recall, there is charges or investigation pending on TX Rep Henry Cuellar. Mysteriously he was raided shortly after speaking out against Bidens border chaos. I think Cuellar is an old school JFK dem, which make him dangerous to the cult.
So many coincidences. LOL
I believe 98% of them are bought off, corrupted or blackmailed. +/- 2% margin error
Always hopeful there will be the naming of names but, alas, I fear he’ll meet the same fate of Epstein, be taken away and declared dead. Yeah, I don’t believe Epstein is dead.
I do not believe either from beginning……..
Let’s see what’s in CryingChuck s house, off shore accts…or Sen Warner and ChynaMitch…..
Why doesn’t he throw others under the bus? Are we supposed to believe honor among thieves or some such BS?
Omertà is strong in Congress.
Menendez has two grown children. Daughter is an anchor at MSNBC; son Rob is in the House representing NJ-8. Their careers would be over – or worse – if Menendez talks.
Is that Little Marco guffawing with his Senatuh Comrades???
Better walk a straight line Marco, you ain’t that clean yourself.
BTW
If Confederate General’s Graves can be dug up; It’s time to remove McShame from Annapolis and ship that carcass back to AZ.
One of my biggest disappointments was learning that McStain was being buried in Annapolis.
As an Az. native, I was SO looking forward to paying my respects personally, and leaving tokens of my,…deep and abiding feelings for him, on his grave…and, you know fertilising and,…watering it.
I recall Rod Blagojevich defending himself with the words, “it’s horse trading, they all do it,” or something very similar.
So, we, as the taxpayers, need to file a class action suit against him to get our money back?
He should have used Hunter as an intermediary. It worked for The Big Guy.
Rumor has it he’s begging Trump for a pardon. 🤷♀️
:Long time coming.
I always thought it odd that the socialists allowed one of theirs to be prosecuted like this. Given Menendez’ record in the Senate, he was a model socialist, and if they had to overlook a little corruption, well, nobody’s perfect.
I always wondered how he could be so dumb as to be the one thug picked out of the congressional lineup for the same behavior they all display.
Again, its not that he was dumber or more obvious than McConnell or Pelousi, its that he crossed the Party leadership, so they had to send a message.
This is why, despite sounding otherwise, Fetterman will vote Tulsi, Jr. and Kash down.
Too bad Hunter isn’t his cellie…
He shoulda just insider traded.
I am shedding zero tears for Bobby Menendez!! 💁🏻♀️
Former senator Bob “walk like an Egyptian” Menendez is off to the Big
HousePyramid for a few years……If he is forced to serve all 11 years in prison I don’t think he’ll live that long.
He’ll go to country club prison, not — not going to complete this movie reference to spare Sundance who’s truly doing the Lord’s work.
So, what happened to the gold bars, cash and luxury cars? Were they impounded for evidence or does Menendez’s wife get to enjoy them for the next 11 years ?
Catturd had a great idea today…
Send somebody to dangle a pardon in front of him in exchange for the goods on Chuck Schumer or Adam Schiff.
Would just be perfect. You know he knows where the bodies are buried. In fact, better get to him before they do.
I still don’t understand why he was singled out.
Note to self—gold bars is bad optics.
“Menendez was not fined for his part in the corruption.”
Incomprehensible ruling.
How much did the judge get for allowing him to keep the ill-gotten gains?
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Awesome… now do Nancy!
about the time….creator of sanctions on the Russia…
This likely saves many a teenage girl from his advances when he would fly to the Caribbean for “business” trips.
Reminiscent of Bob Torricelli, also D-NJ; remember Rush playing the tape of some guy reading off all the items Torricelli accepted as bribes.
Are they bribes or gifts? Well, it depends on the recipient!
No doubt he is corrupt. Most are. But his main crime was years ago when he voted against his party. I think Obama was president. Same with Eric Adams. Marxist parties are unforgiving. Party First, career second and to hell with the country. (Repubs put Career first and to hell with party and country. See Collins, Murkowski, McConnell and assorted others.