U.S. Sen. Bob Menedez (D-N.J.) and his wife, Nadine Arslanian, have been charged with bribery.
A federal grand jury in Manhattan had been investigating the couple over allegations three men facing bank fraud charges gave them gold bars worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for help.
Today's charges come six years after another corruption trial against the senator ended in a hung jury.
The New York Times reports:
The indictment against Mr. Menendez, a 69-year-old Democrat who leads the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, follows a lengthy investigation by federal prosecutors in Manhattan and comes nearly six years after his trial on unrelated claims of corruption ended with a hung jury.
It has been known for some time that Mr. Menendez was under federal scrutiny, and he has said he was willing to assist investigators and was confident the matter would be “successfully closed.”
Representatives for Mr. Menendez could not immediately be reached for comment on the charges.
The indictment is almost certain to resound in Washington and in New Jersey.
Menedez has represented New Jersey in the United States Senate since 2006. Following the passing of Sen. Frank Lautenberg in 2013, he has been the Garden State's senior senator.
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Can we charge more DNC RNC Estd types
Good start, charge the entire demotard party as well as a few rinos as COMPLICIT!
Not first time lying cheating pedo has broken law. ROT IN PRISON TILL THEY DIE.
He better be Fired immediately all benefits revoked all everything gone, confiscate assets
It’s not much more than a grain of sand. Literately thousands of corrupt democrats are guilty of the same criminal severity and more but still hold office procuring even more taxpayer dollars in the form of salary, life pensions & benefits. IF the honest republicans and democrats can rid these thugs from politics, it’ll mark the ‘one third way back’ to America’s reform. PROVIDED – – he and the many others are not just ‘charged’ but convicted, substantially fined, removed from any public salaries, pensions etc, barred from holding any type of public office thereafter and JAILED. Too strict? Well think about the cost, including human life, to the millions of families and to America’s health in security & its economics. Then think about how they gloat among themselves in there elite estates. Never a concern of the lives & homes ruined because…. they just want more!!
god continues to bless his globalists and all his globalist puppets that create hell on earth for all good people while creating heaven on earth for gods evil, criminal, scum; soros, biden crime family, zelensky, crime family, demonrat criminal party, rino criminal party, criminal media, altar boy raping demonrat priests and all his CRIMINAL organizations; doj, fbi, cdc, irs, usps, fema, fda, fcc, fisa, atf, tsa, un, nato, ss, cia etc .