Yah they got a Democrat!

[happyhoix]

Maybe now we can stop whining about a weaponized DOJ only targeting the GOP.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/federal-agents-found-more-than-480-000-in-cash-stuffed-into-envelopes-and-hidden-in-clothing-in-sen-bob-menendez-s-home-indictment-says/ar-AA1h6KgN?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=8018ce3286cd4b25b05312e61d12dc24&ei=17
This guy is old school corrupt. Wads of cash in envelopes all around the house.

The stupid thing is they nearly got him in 2015 - and he goes right back to the same slimy bullshit.

[mollyanna58]

Yeah, my cousin had a business in the county where Menendez was county executive at the time. It was well known that you couldn't run a business there without going to Menendez's campaign fundraisers.  

[busymom]

Sheesh.  Sounds like the small town my Dad grew up in.  The only businesses that survived were the ones who were members of the "commercial club".  

[billisonboard]

Just went after low hanging fruit to fool people. 

 You know it is coming. 

[happyhoix]

Well I could make a joke about New Jersey and the mob, but I live in MTGs district so I don’t feel like I can cast shade on anyone else’s representative.

[jerseygirl]

Living in NJ this is not a surprise. My kids had multiple friends that showed them shoeboxes filled with money in their parents closets.
Actually Menendez has stood up to Biden on some issues. But he’s been a career politician and ‘reaping the benefits’
I’ll be happy to see him leave, the miserable little troll

[haapai]

Good!  There's no good reason for a public servant to have a half a million in cash and gold in their house.  Hold all ten of their feet to the fire and keep on investigating.  

When things like this happen, I always hope that the cash and Au found was just bribes that exceeded the bribed's ability to launder them.  The possibility that they were holding cash for someone else is even scarier. 

[happyhoix]

Interesting how many dem politicians are saying this guy needs to resign because he was indicted.

Compare that to the number of GOPers who claim Trump did nothing wrong and should still get to be president despite 91 indictments.

[pulmonarymd]

Again, it's OK if you are a republican. If they are accused, caught, indicted, it is political

[djAdvocate]

throw him out.
show the people that this shit matters to the party of YES.

[Tennesseer]

I have not heard a word from Republican House members regarding boebert's indecent and sexual public display at the Beatlejuice musical.  Republicans complain about members of the Democratic party being okay with grooming children. 

But what do Republican House members say about boebert letting some guy publicly feel up her breasts and her giving the guy a handjob with children all around them?  Nothing.  Nothing at all.

McCarthy won't say a word about expelling boebert from the House because that would make even smaller the Republicans' slim majority in the House.

[Opti]

Sept 22, 2023 18:45:18 GMT -5 jerseygirl said:

Living in NJ this is not a surprise. My kids had multiple friends that showed them shoeboxes filled with money in their parents closets.
Actually Menendez has stood up to Biden on some issues. But he’s been a career politician and ‘reaping the benefits’
I’ll be happy to see him leave, the miserable little troll

This is a surprise to me, but I never lived in Hudson County or had kids inform me of anything like this.

[mollyanna58]

Guilty on all 16 counts.

Sen. Bob Menendez was convicted Tuesday of taking bribes from three businessmen who showered him and his wife with cash, gold bars and a Mercedes-Benz, an extravagant bounty for his help securing deals with foreign officials and trying to derail several criminal investigations in New Jersey.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jury-reaches-verdict-in-us-senator-bob-menendez-s-corruption-trial/ar-BB1q5LvQ?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=e5eb1dfedd804514adac880325c5a380&ei=14

[pulmonarymd]

That won't make them shut up. He was a democrat-of course he was corrupt. Only god-fearing Americans with non-foreign names are the ones who are persecuted. The others deserve it.

[Opti]

Sept 22, 2023 16:08:58 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

Well I could make a joke about New Jersey and the mob, but I live in MTGs district so I don’t feel like I can cast shade on anyone else’s representative.

NJ is possibly the most complex and corrupt state when it comes to politics. A former coworker told me at least in Illinois its mostly Chicago and the Daley team. Here (NJ) its everywhere and at every level. In large part due to his guidance about politics I registered as a Democrat instead of sticking with Independent. 

I knew Mendez was corrupt, but I did not know the extent of it. I was expecting this ruling.

[mollyanna58]

Menendez will resign next month.


www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democratic-sen-robert-menendez-will-resign-next-month-after-corruption-conviction/ar-BB1quLuY?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=038ab9390de941ddbccb20e86cd60951&ei=5


Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez will resign next month after he was found guilty on all 16 counts in a federal bribery and corruption trial, three sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.



Menendez will leave office on Aug. 20, the sources said, with two saying he has informed some of his staff. One of the sources close to Menendez said the senator has written his letter of resignation, is submitting it and will resign.

[djAdvocate]

Jul 16, 2024 12:57:33 GMT -5 pulmonarymd said:

That won't make them shut up. He was a democrat-of course he was corrupt. Only god-fearing Americans with non-foreign names are the ones who are persecuted. The others deserve it.

i am kinda past the point of caring about them.

i care about the country.