Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez Guilty on All Charges in Federal Corruption Trial
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute By Jamie Joseph , Anders Hagstrom , Maria Paronich (Fox News) The jury in the federal corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and two of his business associates, Fred Daibes and Wael Hana, found Menendez guilty on all charges after a grueling nine-week complex trial in Manhattan. Menendez […]
Could Bob Menendez run for re-election after being found guilty of corruption?
Embattled New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, a Democrat, was found guilty of all charges in his long-running corruption trial on Tuesday, but that may not be enough to prevent him from staying in office or continuing his campaign for reelection in November. The jury found Menendez guilty of several charges, including racketeering, bribery, conspiracy, obstruction […]
US senator Bob Menendez found guilty on all counts in corruption trial | Bob Menendez
Numerous Democratic leaders on Tuesday called for Sen. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey politician, to resign after he was found guilty on all charges in a nine-week federal corruption trial in New York City. The jury found the 70-year-old former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee guilty of 16 charges, including accepting bribes of […]
Chuck Schumer demands Bob Menendez step down from Senate after conviction on 16 counts of corruption
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, called on Bob Menendez to resign after a jury convicted him on all 16 charges in a federal bribery case. Prosecutors said Menendez used his powerful position as a senator to provide favors to Egypt and other clients. The charges include bribery, acting as a foreign agent, extortion, […]
Sen. Bob Menendez Found Guilty on All Counts in Federal Corruption Trial
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) was found guilty on all charges in his federal corruption trial on Tuesday. ABC News report: Federal prosecutors in New York have alleged that the New Jersey Democrat accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in the form of cash, gold bars and mortgage payments in exchange for political influence […]
Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez FOUND GUILTY on all counts in federal corruption case
A jury on Tuesday found Sen. Bob Menendez (Dynamo County, J.D.) guilty of multiple counts related to bribery and corruption charges. Jurors had been deliberating for 13 hours since Friday on the 16 counts brought against Menendez. The charges against Menendez include conspiracy, bribery, extortion, obstruction of justice and acting as a foreign agent for […]
Top moments from Bob Menendez’s bribery and corruption trial
The bribery and corruption case against Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has featured everything from gold bars to meat monopolies, silver bells to Cuban quirks, Mercedes convertibles to Egyptian camels. The trial took nine weeks. It was complex and delved into serious charges against the longtime lawmaker, his wife, two New Jersey businessmen on trial with him, […]
Sen. Bob Menendez ‘has faith’ as jurors deliberate in corruption case
He praises them. New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez said he was relying on his faith on Friday as he left a Manhattan federal courthouse, where jurors in his high-stakes bribery trial had deliberated for three hours without reaching a verdict. “I have faith in God and in the jury,” the embattled Democrat said in English […]
Ukraine’s hopes of NATO entry dashed over its persistent corruption
Ukraine tactics Russia has been seeking NATO membership since gaining independence from the former Soviet Union in 1991, and there is every reason to believe it has a chance: after all, NATO member states agreed at the 2008 Bucharest summit that Russia could one day become a member of the NATO military alliance. Despite initial […]
Oklahoma judge accused in 2 drive-by shootings now accused of corruption, sexual misconduct with staff at courthouse
An Oklahoma judge already facing criminal charges in connection with two separate shootings has now been accused of sexual and professional misconduct in his office. If the charges against him are any indication, Brian Lovell, a 59-year-old judge in Garfield County, Oklahoma, is one undesirable character. Lovell is also accused of favoring certain lawyers and […]