12mo ago

Sen. Bob Menendez found guilty on all counts, including acting as foreign agent, in federal corruption trial

abcnews.go.com Sen. Bob Menendez found guilty on all counts, including acting as foreign agent, in federal corruption trial

Federal prosecutors alleged that Sen. Bob Menendez accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for the New Jersey Democrat's political clout.

"He will be sentenced on Oct. 29 and faces decades in prison."

Wife's trial delayed indefinitely.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/sen-bob-menendez-wife-nadine-menendez-trial-delayed-indefinitely-rcna162108

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See how easy that was? Now why is it so hard if there's an R next to their name?
- Because someone in the media whispers to them “hey yeah but wouldn’t in be fun if instead you spent the next 6 weeks trying unseat your own nominee” and they go “TAHTS’ SUCH A GOOD IDEA” and get busy on it
  No one intervenes if the system goes after a Democrat, so it can all just happen as normal
- The courts were stacked with Republicans. This is why local elections are just as or even more important than the national ones. Everything starts small.

Wait, so politicians can be held accountable for their crimes? When did that change?
- He didn’t have the magic (R) next to his name.
- Oh politicians can be and are held accountable all the time. It's conservative politicians who seem to get off scot-free

Now do Donald Trump, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and John Roberts.
- And Moscow Mitch.
  
  Let's add Matt Gaetz to that list
- Those guys didn't get cartoonish bags of money and gold bars, just stock tips and fancy vacations and ~~RVs~~ motor homes. All above board according to the law.

He's still a sitting Senator and won't resign despite the NJ Governor Murphy calling for him to do so. The Senate will have to expel him, and then Murphy will appoint a replacement.
- Do it. Do it now! Grab some media attention showing Democrats getting rid of their unethical members while the Republicans are celebrating theirs.
  
  I'm just glad this isn't another Al Franken situation.

We need more of these dudes getting held accountable.

I am so shocked that the guy googling "how much is an ounce of gold worth" was caught.
- True story... when my kid got married and bought a house 5 years ago, I gifted them an ounce of gold. $1,800 then. $2,470.32.
  So +$670.32! Yay!
  But over 5 years? :(
  $134.064 / year.
  
  But over 5 years? :(
  Erm - 6.5% interest rate is a decent inflation compensation. If there wasn't a risk even with gold, I'd use gold as my "secure savings" account.

But he acted as a foreign agent in an official capacity!

Excellent.. regardless of what party any politician is in, we need a full scale investigation on corruption for call local/state/federal politicians and agencies.

Bye Bob

And lo, the conservatives looked out for all the progressives and democrats who would defend this man as they would their own, and found none, because they're not hypocritical pieces of shit.

Eat shit, Bob!
Edit: broken hyperlink removed
- I believed the second pair of parentheses is messing up your hyperlink, however upon a test of copying and pasting the link directly, it seems that your link doesn't work.
  
  Urgh, thank you. Sorry. I couldn't upload the image directly, new account restriction I think.

Lol! Trump committee treason and insurrection and literally nothing will happen to him... This guy's going to jail.
Do as I say not as I do! S

"Robert Menendez ... ...serving as the senior United States senator from ... ... member of the Democratic Party, ..."
Gosh !
- And? Throw crooks in prison, regardless of party. What, did you expect Democrats to defend him? Nah, circling the wagons is what Republicans do.
  
  Hi @kescusay,
  100% agree with you : Crooks should go to prison. Still, i was disappointed because i didn't know which party that crook belong to so i searched and i was hoping to find that he was from the Republican... but, allas, no.
  P.S. : Retrospectively there was about 50% ways of misreading my above comment and maybe 95% of all readers here have misinterpreted it. Go figure !

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