Dem Senator BOB MENENDEZ Indicted a Third Time - But Republicans Are Afraid to Demand He Resign.

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Using the cover of "Super Tuesday" in the hope that not many would notice, one of Congress's highest ranking and longest serving Democrats has been indicted a third time by Biden's Dept of Justice. That's three indictments over the past 8 months!

IF YOU THOUGHT the allegations of corruption against New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez couldn’t go any deeper, you clearly aren’t accustomed to hiding gold bars in your sock drawer.

TODAY, New York prosecutors leveled another superseding indictment against the Democratic senator, bringing up the total of indictments against Menendez to three in the state’s ongoing corruption and bribery investigation into the lawmaker, his wife, and several business associates.

In September, Menendez was charged with conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, and conspiracy to commit extortion. Prosecutors alleged that Menendez and his wife, Nadine, had “agreed to and did accept hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes in exchange for using Menendez’s power and influence as a Senator to seek to protect and enrich,” three businessmen: Wael Hana, Jose Uribe, and Fred Daibes.

The charges included allegations that Menendez had abused his post to unlawfully aid the government of Egypt, and showed that investigators had found envelopes of cash and even solid bars of gold stashed throughout the senator’s home.

More at: www.rollingstone.com...

I can understand why low-Integrity Democrats in Congress and the Media are not calling for Bob Menendez to resign. Even if he violated U.S. National Security laws by stealing troves of Classified Documents, like Senator Joe Biden did, Democrats would give Menendez a pass...just like they gave Joe Biden a pass, last month.

But REPUBLICANS threw their own colleague, George Santos out of Congress, for being accused of doing far less serious crimes than Bob Menendez is alleged to have committed!

What the heck is wrong with the current crop of Republicans? I thought they were becoming "braver" than the wimps from Paul Ryan and John Boehner's era.😟

-WeMustCare

a reply to: WeMustCare

The precedent set by Santos is that either a conviction or a recommendation for expulsion from the Ethics Committee is required before a member of Congress will be expelled.

originally posted by: Threadbarer
a reply to: WeMustCare

The precedent set by Santos is that either a conviction or a recommendation for expulsion from the Ethics Committee is required before a member of Congress will be expelled.

That's just the way it was done. There's no law, just like there's no law keeping Trump from trial within 90 days of an election. It's just a loose (and meaningless in this day and age) guideline.

zero chance mitch lets any kind of demand like that move forward, he will make certain anyone that gets public pressure building in that way doesnt get a dime come re-election time.

ETA: where are the resident progressives that demanded santos be gone, why arent they screaming for this guy to be toast... oh yea rules for thee not for me.

a reply to: WeMustCare

And much like when the initial vote to expel Santos failed, if the Republicans introduced a motion to expel Menendez now, it would fail.

a reply to: WeMustCare

Dems don’t care what any one of theirs has done.
All they care about is their power and his seat.

a reply to: Irishhaf

Since Indictment #1 of Menendez back in September for being a spy for Qatar and Egypt, Senator JOHN FETTERMAN has been attempting to get Senator Menendez blocked from attending Classified Briefings....or removed from the Senate.

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer has repeatedly tried to silence his Freshman Senator Fetterman, but it's not working. Fetterman's stroke recovery rehab has made him BRAVER and WISER than all the other members of Congress!

originally posted by: Threadbarer
a reply to: WeMustCare

And much like when the initial vote to expel Santos failed, if the Republicans introduced a motion to expel Menendez now, it would fail.

If the people of Bob Menendez's district asks him to resign, do you think he would?

originally posted by: Vermilion
a reply to: WeMustCare

Dems don’t care what any one of theirs has done.
All they care about is their power and his seat.

I understand. Like I said at the top, Democrats don't care that Joe Biden stole classified documents and (likely) used them to make money, when he was a Senator.

The deluge of excuses has started already. As far as I can tell, Santos hadn't even had a verdict (still doesn't) when he got the boot. He hadn't even served a year of his term in the House.
Menendez had indictments back in 2015. The Senate Select Committee on Ethics said this about him then - "The Committee has determined that this conduct violated Senate Rules, federal law, and applicable standards of conduct."

He violated federal law back then, and apparently again and again since then. Why won't Ethics Committee recommend his removal?
The democrats just don't want to lose the seat.

a reply to: WeMustCare

Much like Santos, probably not.

a reply to: Hakaiju

By the time the Ethics Committee finished their report in 2015 the case had already been dropped. As a result they didn't recommend expulsion. Remember that in 2015, Republicans would have had majority in the Senate.

a reply to: WeMustCare

He's From Joisey , what did you Espect ?

originally posted by: WeMustCare
a reply to: Irishhaf

Since Indictment #1 of Menendez back in September for being a spy for Qatar and Egypt, Senator JOHN FETTERMAN has been attempting to get Senator Menendez blocked from attending Classified Briefings....or removed from the Senate.

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer has repeatedly tried to silence his Freshman Senator Fetterman, but it's not working.

Fetterman's stroke recovery rehab has made him BRAVER and WISER than all the other members of Congress!

We can only imagine what Schumer is guilty of for his decades in Congress. ☢️

originally posted by: Threadbarer
a reply to: Hakaiju

By the time the Ethics Committee finished their report in 2015 the case had already been dropped. As a result they didn't recommend expulsion. Remember that in 2015, Republicans would have had majority in the Senate.

And the Santos case hadn't (hasn't?) come to a verdict yet. What if that case gets dropped? And having a Republican majority would surely mean the righteous thing would be done, much to the detriment of the idiot Republicans.

I'm sure Mr. Menendez is just a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.

a reply to: WeMustCare

Democrat politicians lack a brain, a soul.

Republican politicians lack a spine.

a reply to: Hakaiju

Then I guess you should take it up with Michael Guest, the Republican Representative that is chair for the House Ethics Committee and is the one to file the motion that ultimately saw Santos expelled.

originally posted by: Threadbarer
a reply to: Hakaiju

Then I guess you should take it up with Michael Guest, the Republican Representative that is chair for the House Ethics Committee and is the one to file the motion that ultimately saw Santos expelled.

And there is the problem. The democrats play dirty and the Republicans are afraid of getting their wingtips dirty.

originally posted by: CarlLaFong
I'm sure Mr. Menendez is just a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.

AND a bad back - gold bars are heavy!