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obnoxiousdrunk

(2,910 posts)
Wed Apr 1, 2015, 04:03 PM Apr 2015

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez indicted on corruption charges

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Bob Menendez has been charged with using his office to improperly benefit a Florida eye doctor and political donor.

A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted the New Jersey Democrat on charges including conspiracy to commit bribery and wire fraud.

Prosecutors had been investigating whether Menendez improperly advocated for the business interests of Dr. Salomon Melgen, including by intervening on the doctor's behalf in a medical billing dispute.

Menendez has acknowledged that he flew on Melgen's private plane to the Dominican Republic and failed at first to properly pay for the trips. He later made reimbursements.

Menendez, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has previously said he's done nothing wrong and that he and Melgen have been close friends for a long time.


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/jersey-sen-bob-menendez-indicted-corruption-charges-195317722--politics.html

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New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez indicted on corruption charges (Original Post) obnoxiousdrunk Apr 2015 OP
I bet fox is on this olddots Apr 2015 #1
course with Scott Walker PatrynXX Apr 2015 #7
This was Medicare fraud, and Menendez is up to his neck in it. still_one Apr 2015 #2
Can't say I cared for this guy or his politics very much. Comrade Grumpy Apr 2015 #3
Yeah he was an unrepentant war hawk from one of the bluest districts in the country. davepc Apr 2015 #4
In the worst-case scenario, does Krispy Kreme get to make an appointment? KamaAina Apr 2015 #5
Christie gets to make a temporary appointment, Wilms Apr 2015 #10
If Menendez resigns, which is not a given. I predict he won't unless he gets convicted. yellowcanine Apr 2015 #18
Medicare Fraud? fredamae Apr 2015 #6
Hard to know the truth any more. laserhaas Apr 2015 #8
Easy target? Jon Ace Apr 2015 #9
After what they did to Gov. Siegelman and their Pedo campaign turning out false laserhaas Apr 2015 #12
Don't worry cosmicone Apr 2015 #11
cant say i really cared drray23 Apr 2015 #13
Good-bye. Major Hogwash Apr 2015 #14
Another DINO bites the dust forest444 Apr 2015 #15
Adios. nt bemildred Apr 2015 #16
Tough case. I predict acquittal or a hung jury if it goes to trial. yellowcanine Apr 2015 #17

davepc

(3,936 posts)
4. Yeah he was an unrepentant war hawk from one of the bluest districts in the country.
Wed Apr 1, 2015, 05:15 PM
Apr 2015

Also a big supporter of the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act and good friend of big business and big banks.

yellowcanine

(35,701 posts)
18. If Menendez resigns, which is not a given. I predict he won't unless he gets convicted.
Thu Apr 2, 2015, 10:18 AM
Apr 2015

There is no easy out here for anybody.

 

laserhaas

(7,805 posts)
8. Hard to know the truth any more.
Wed Apr 1, 2015, 05:33 PM
Apr 2015

Corruption is ALL over the place - So they can nail any Senator and/or Congressmen they wish to.

Question is - WHY?

 

laserhaas

(7,805 posts)
12. After what they did to Gov. Siegelman and their Pedo campaign turning out false
Wed Apr 1, 2015, 06:09 PM
Apr 2015

I just wish WE could interview the guy - and get the facts...

forest444

(5,902 posts)
15. Another DINO bites the dust
Thu Apr 2, 2015, 12:31 AM
Apr 2015

This indictment is especially important because Menéndez was the sole Senate Democrat controlled by what's arguably the world's most vile and obscene banker, Cayman Islands-based vulture fund NML Capital ringleader Paul Singer.

This is the same Paul Singer that has bilked taxpayers out of $12 billion in TARP funds, while liquidating Delphi Automotive and Caesar's Entertainment and tens of thousands of good jobs. Singer has also become one of the top funders of almost every teahadist cause you can imagine from the GOP itself on down. Despite facilitating massive tax evasion and money laundering from his vulture fund in the Caymans, Singer enjoys full access to U.S. courts, and has, as many know, been using this access to hold bondholders money hostage in the Argentine case (the one in which he bought bonds for $48 million, but is now demanding $900 million despite already collecting on the CDS insurance on same).

Singer controls numerous Republicans in both the House and Senate, but his stooge in the Democratic side was always the same one: Bob Menéndez.

So good riddance, Bob. I'm sure the Dominican Republic brothels will miss you.

yellowcanine

(35,701 posts)
17. Tough case. I predict acquittal or a hung jury if it goes to trial.
Thu Apr 2, 2015, 10:15 AM
Apr 2015

I don't know whether Menendez is guilty or not. I think the prosecutors have a much tougher job than they did with McDonnell , as Menendez had a long standing friendship with Melgen. It is not as if he conveniently invented the friendship as Bob McDonnell did. Maybe a rather low bar but it is real, particularly when it comes to juries, where one juror can dig in their heels and refuse to convict.

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