New Jersey Sen. Menendez and his wife are indicted on bribery charges (gold, cars & cribs)

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Bob Menendez’s wife sold $400K in gold bars months before his office admitted he was facing federal probe​


Sen. Bob Menendez’s new wife cashed in up to $400,000 worth of gold bars — despite having faced foreclosure just three years earlier.

The sale, last spring, was months before his office publicly admitted that the New Jersey Democrat was facing a new federal investigation.

Nadine Arslanian, 56, sold the gold between April 7, 2022, and June 16, 2022, according to the senator’s annual public disclosures. It is equivalent to as much as 13 pounds of pure gold.

The sale was a remarkable financial turnaround for Arslanian, who had reportedly been struggling financially, even facing foreclosure on her home, before she married Menendez in 2020.

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Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife sold $400K in gold bars months before his office admitted he was facing federal probe

Nadine Arslanian married Menendez in 2020 after a Taj Mahal proposal. She faced foreclosure but her troubles were soon over. Now the pair face a corruption probe.
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One of the most dishonest politicians in the history of NJ.
 
Gold? She was hoarding gold? That worthless relic? What was she thinking!?
 
Lancers32 said:
One of the most dishonest politicians in the history of NJ.
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He's a democrat. None of them have an honest bone in their bodies. Just look at them all. Every single one of them is a steaming pile of excrement looking to enrich themselves at American citizen's expense. Starting with the pedophile in the Oval Office and his crackhead son.

A person either has to be willfully blind or just plain stupid to even consider voting for one of them, yet we are told that 81 million did. And look what we got.
 
Sadly he will be re elected and then Kamala will be President.

Gold is how you bribe a politician. No paper trail.
 

Sen. Bob Menendez indicted over gifts of gold bars, car, apartment​

A federal grand jury in New York has returned an indictment against United States Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee.

The investigation focused on a luxury car, gold bars and an apartment allegedly received by Menendez and his wife, Nadine Arslanian. His wife was also indicted.

The indictment charges Menendez, 69, and his wife with having a corrupt relationship with three New Jersey businessmen -- Wael Hana, Jose Uribe and Fred Daides.

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There's a lesson buried in this.

If it didn't work for a plugged-in DemocRat...how likely is it going to work for one of us?

Gold as an escape/survival mechanism and enabler.
 
My guess is that if we raided every congress critters house we would find plenty of cash and gold there. He should have requested 1 oz coins instead of a 400k bar.
 
That was escape gold and cash. I wonder where they were going to offshore?
 
News media having a field day:

"gold bars - who has gold bars"
"cash in a mattress - who does that"
"something's seriously wrong with him"
"you know he's presumed innocent - lol"
"ghost job for his wife"



Bob Menendez singlehandedly blocked bipartisan effort to strengthen law regulating foreign influence in Washington​

Sen. Robert Menendez, charged last week with secretly aiding the Egyptian government in exchange for bribes, singlehandedly blocked passage of bipartisan legislation in 2020 that would have strengthened the law regulating foreign influence and lobbying in Washington, Senate records show.

The proposed Foreign Agents Disclosure and Registration Enhancement Act grew out of widespread concerns that the current law regulating foreign lobbying had seldom been enforced, and that foreign influence campaigns had successfully infiltrated American politics. Strengthening the law had drawn support from Democrats and Republicans on key committees.

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He must have tried to cut Biden and Pelosi out of their shares again and they have bills to pay.
 
Did they raid his home and destroy it and seize all his bank accounts?
 

Senator or secret agent? How Robert Menendez is alleged to have been Egypt's inside man​

WASHINGTON − The deal was sealed over meetings and dinner, federal prosecutors say. Officials representing Egypt's authoritarian government wanted a powerful American's help with weapons sales and financing. Sen. Robert Menendez and his then-girlfriend Nadine Arslanian said the senator could facilitate both.

In exchange, a New Jersey middleman − a struggling Egyptian-born business entrepreneur named Wael "Will" Hana − allegedly promised the future Mrs. Menendez a low- or no-show job. He would later sweeten the pot with wads of cash and gold bars.

In the middle of one of many encounters, Menendez − the influential chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee − and Arslanian joined an Egyptian intelligence official, Hana, and an associate for dinner at a posh Washington DC steakhouse.

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Gold bars stashed in Dem senator's home recovered after 2013 violent robbery​

Several gold bars discovered by federal agents in Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez's residence as part of a high-profile bribery investigation can be traced to a violent robbery a decade ago.

According to a sprawling indictment unsealed by federal prosecutors in September, Menendez and his wife allegedly played a role in a years-long bribery scheme that involved the Egyptian government and local businessmen including Fred Daibes, a wealthy New Jersey real estate developer. Prosecutors revealed they retrieved multiple gold bars from Menendez's home which were allegedly used as payment in the scheme.

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Gold bars stashed in Dem senator's home recovered after 2013 violent robbery

Multiple gold bars found in Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez's residence can be linked to a violent gunpoint New Jersey robbery that occurred in 2013.
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Casey Jones said:
How did they trace them.

The bars I had, had no numbers cast on them.
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An evidence photo published in the September federal indictment of Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., shows a gold bar with the serial number "590005." The same gold bar was stolen in a 2013 robbery. (United States District Court )
 
So, nothing but the victim's assertion that those are the numbers.

I doubt he's being set up, but, frankly, that's a sloppy chain of custody. An alleged victim supplies a number; and has, probably, no images or photos of it.

It could have been the bar was sold/given/bribery to Menendez, or a dirty cop is doing what now seems SOP in police actions.

I don't doubt this guy's a slimeball; but this seems a little too pat to convince me.
 

A Powerful Lesson About Gold The Media Cannot Ignore!​

Jan 11, 2024
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Menendez has a son also in NJ politics.

Robert Jacobsen Menendez Jr. A member of the Democratic Party and son of U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, he was a commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from 2021 to 2023.
 

Federal prosecutors say Nadine Menendez claimed gold bars belonged to her late mother​

Feb 14, 2024
According to court papers, federal prosecutors allege that a staffer for Bob Menendez said the senator claimed that the gold bars linked to a search of Menendez’s residence came from his wife's deceased mother.

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Bob Menendez's corruption case co-defendant pleads guilty to 7 counts, cooperating with investigators​


A New Jersey businessman and co-defendant in Sen. Bob Menendez's, D-N.J., corruption case pleaded guilty to seven counts and said he would cooperate with investigators.

Jose Uribe on Friday pleaded guilty to a slate of charges that include conspiracy to commit bribery, obstruction of justice, wire fraud, and tax evasion. He faces up to 95 years in prison if convicted on all counts. In his plea agreement, Uribe said he would cooperate with prosecutors against Menendez.

Federal prosecutors initially unsealed charges against Menendez and his wife, Nadine Menendez, in September. They include accusations that he benefited the government of Egypt and engaged in a corrupt scheme alongside Uribe, New Jersey real estate developer Fred Daibes, and Wael Hana, who runs a halal meat certification business in the state.

Menendez and his wife allegedly accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes "to seek to protect and enrich" Uribe, Daibes, and Hana. The bribes included cash, gold bars, home mortgage payments, compensation for no-show jobs, and "other things of value," according to the indictment.

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It was her, she did it. Can't trust the bitch.

Bob ‘Gold Bars’ Menendez throws wife under the bus claiming she hid bribes in opening statements at trial​

Embattled New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez will blame his wife for accepting gold bars, cash payments and hiding them from him, his defense lawyer suggested during opening statements at his bribery trial on Wednesday.

Mr Menendez, wife Nadine Menendez, and three New Jersey men Wael Hana, Fred Daibes and Jose Uribe were indicted in September 2023 over a scheme that allegedly saw the couple accept gold bars, hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and payments for a Mercedes convertible in exchange for his political influence. The lawmaker’s actions ultimately benefitted the Egyptian and Qatari governments, according to prosecutors.

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He's a democrat. Accepting gold bars, cash, and lavish vacations in return for favors are standard operating procedure for them. He should have had a crackhead son to launder the money for him in Ukraine. That's where he made his mistake.
 
nickndfl said:
I don't see why Menendez needed to resign since he is a democrat.
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Another Dumbo wants the seat, probably.

And there's probably dirty pictures of Menendez with playmates at Epstein's funhouse. So, the Dumbo overlords in Davos, get what they want.
 

Major Update On Disgraced Ex-NJ Senator's Bribery Trial: Erroneous Evidence​

Prosecutors in the federal bribery trial of former New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez revealed Wednesday that jurors were given some evidence excluded from the trial.

Menendez was convicted on 16 charges, including bribery, conspiracy, fraud and making false statements, in July.

During the nine-week trial, prosecutors claimed that Menendez "put his power up for sale" by offering political favors in exchange for lavish gifts, such as cash, gold bars, a Mercedes-Benz convertible, furniture and payments on a home mortgage. The defense claimed the case was based on "guesswork" and there was insufficient evidence to prove that Menendez was guilty.

Menendez resigned from the Senate in August.

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