This Indictment Against Senator Bob Menendez Is a Real Doozy. Most likely, this sleazebag will continue his Senatorial duties.
Update: New Jersey Gov. Murphy, Assembly speaker call on Sen. Bob Menendez to resign.
Update: Menendez steps down as Foreign Relations chairman after indictment.
It appears things are getting worse for Menendez by the hour.
Robert “Bob” Menendez, the Democrat senior U.S. Senator for New Jersey, was indicted on Friday in the Southern District of New York for engaging — along with his wife Nadine Menendez (Arslanian) — in a “corrupt relationship with three New Jersey associates and businessmen” between 2018 and 2022, according to an unsealed court filing.
According to the indictment, Senator Menendez and his wife “agreed to and did accept hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes” in return for Menendez’s “power and influence as a senator to protect and enrich” the three individuals identified as Wael Hana, Jose Uribe, and Fred Daibes and “to benefit the Arab Republic of Egypt.”
“Those bribes included cash, gold, payments toward a home mortgage, compensation for a low-or-no-show job, a luxury vehicle, and other things of value,” the indictment says, in addition to allegations that Menendez “provided sensitive U.S. Government information and took other steps that secretly aided the Government of Egypt.”