Breaking News: Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez facing indictment on bribery charges

Yep that seems to work for democrats :laugh: Menendez is a small timer he just got a million or two. If you use LLCs you can take in tens of millions in bribes.

That, and he's been on the take for well over a decade, including previous indictments and scandals for it...
 
This Menendez thing is interesting timing don't you think?;)

Hahahahahhahaha what a pathetic scum you are


You didn’t find it funny about the timing of your party’s lie about Iraq


Hell

You probably now say Bush didn’t lie us to war
 
1969–1974 (Richard M. Nixon presidency)
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Executive branch
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Watergate (1972–1973) Republican 'bugging' of the Democratic Party National Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel led to a burglary which was discovered. The cover up of the affair by President Richard Nixon (R) and his staff resulted in 69 government officials being charged and 48 pleading guilty, including seven for actual burglary. Eventually, Nixon resigned his position.[37]


John N. Mitchell (R) former United States Attorney General, convicted of perjury.[38]


Richard Kleindienst (R) United States Attorney General, convicted of obstruction, given one month in jail.


H. R. Haldeman (R) White House Chief of Staff, convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury. Served 18 months in prison.


John Ehrlichman (R) former White House Counsel, convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury. Served 18 months in prison.


Egil Krogh (R) United States Undersecretary of Transportation, sentenced to six months.

John Dean (R) White House Counsel, convicted of obstruction of justice, later reduced to felony offenses and served 4 months.

Dwight Chapin (R) Secretary to the President of the United States, convicted of perjury.

Herbert W. Kalmbach (R) Nixon's Personal Attorney, guilty of corrupt practices, 191 days in jail.

Charles Colson (R) Special Counsel to the President for Public Liaison, convicted of obstruction of justice. Served 7 months.


Spiro Agnew (R) Vice President of the United States, pleaded nolo contendere (no contest) to income-tax evasion (1973).[39]

Maurice Stans (R) United States Secretary of Commerce, pleaded guilty to three counts of violating the reporting sections of the Federal Election Campaign Act and two counts of accepting illegal campaign contributions and was fined $5,000 (1975).[40]

Legislative branch
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Ted Kennedy (D-MA) drove his car into the channel between Chappaquiddick Island and Martha's Vineyard, killing

passenger Mary Jo Kopechne. Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and received a suspended sentence of two months (1969)[41]

Martin B. McKneally (R-NY) placed on one year's probation and fined $5,000 (equivalent to $36,130 in 2022) for failing to file income tax return. He had not paid taxes for many years prior (1971).[42]


Cornelius Gallagher (D-NJ) pleaded guilty to tax evasion, and served two years in prison (1972).[43]

J. Irving Whalley (R-PA) received suspended three-year sentence and fined $11,000 (equivalent to $72,514 in 2022) in 1973 for using mails to deposit staff salary kickbacks and threatening an employee to prevent her from giving information to the FBI (1973).[44]

Edwin Reinecke (R-CA) convicted of perjury and sentenced to 18 months in prison as part of the Watergate investigation (1973).[45]
 
1981–1989 (Ronald Reagan presidency)
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Executive branch
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See also: Reagan administration scandals
Iran–Contra affair (1985–1986); A secret sale of arms to Iran, to secure the release of hostages and allow U.S. intelligence agencies to fund the Nicaraguan Contras, in violation of the Boland Amendment.[59]
Elliott Abrams (R) Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, convicted of withholding evidence. Given 2 years' probation. Later pardoned by President George H. W. Bush.[60]
Michael Deaver (R) White House Deputy Chief of Staff to Ronald Reagan, pleaded guilty to perjury related to lobbying activities and was sentenced to 3 years' probation and fined $100,000 (equivalent to $257,586 in 2022) (1987).[61]
Operation Ill Wind was a three-year investigation launched in 1986 by the FBI into corruption by U.S. government and military officials, and private defense contractors.
Melvyn Paisley (R) Assistant Secretary of the Navy,[62] was found to have accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. He pleaded guilty to bribery and served four years in prison.[63][64][65]
Victor D. Cohen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, was the 50th conviction obtained under the Ill Wind probe when he pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and conspiring to defraud the government. He was sentenced to 33 months in prison.[66][67]
James E. Gaines, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy, took over when Paisley resigned his office.[68] Gaines was convicted of accepting an illegal gratuity and theft and conversion of government property. He was sentenced to six months in prison.[69]
Deborah Gore Dean (R) Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, convicted of fraud (1988).[70]
Housing and Urban Development Scandal was a controversy concerning bribery by selected contractors for low income housing projects.[71]
James G. Watt (R) United States Secretary of the Interior, was charged with 25 counts of perjury and obstruction of justice. Sentenced to five years' probation, fined $5,000 (equivalent to $9,603 in 2022) and 500 hours of community service (1995).[72]
Legislative branch
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Abscam FBI sting involving fake 'Arabs' trying to bribe 31 congressmen (1980).[73] The following Congressmen were convicted:
Harrison A. Williams Senator (D-NJ) Convicted on 9 counts of bribery and conspiracy. Sentenced to 3 years in prison.[74]
John Jenrette (D-SC) sentenced to two years in prison for bribery and conspiracy.[75]
Richard Kelly (R-FL) Accepted $25K and then claimed he was conducting his own investigation into corruption. Served 13 months.[76]
Raymond Lederer (D-PA) "I can give you me" he said after accepting $50K. Sentenced to 3 years.[77]
Michael Myers (D-PA) Accepted $50K saying, "...money talks and bullshit walks." Sentenced to 3 years and was expelled from the House.[78]
Frank Thompson (D-NJ) Sentenced to 3 years.[79]
John M. Murphy (D-NY) Served 20 months of a 3-year sentence.[80]
Jon Hinson (R-MS) was arrested for having homosexual oral sex in the House of Representatives' bathroom with a government staffer. Hinson, who was married, later received a 30-day jail sentence, and a year's probation, on condition that he get counseling and treatment (1981).[81][82]
Joshua Eilberg (D-PA) pleaded guilty to conflict-of-interest charges (1981).[44]
Dan Flood (D-PA) censured for bribery. After a trial ended in a deadlocked jury, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year's probation (1981).[83][84]
Frederick W. Richmond (D-NY), Convicted of tax fraud and possession of marijuana. Served 9 months in prison (1982).[85]
George V. Hansen (R-ID) censured for failing to fill in disclosure forms. Spent 15 months in prison (1984).[86]
Wedtech scandal Wedtech Corporation was convicted of bribery in connection with Defense Department contracts.[87]
Mario Biaggi (D-NY) Convicted of obstruction of justice and accepting illegal gratuities he was sentenced to 2½ years in prison and fined $500K (equivalent to $1,287,932 in 2022) (1987).[88]
Robert Garcia (D-NY) sentenced to 2½ years.[89]
Pat Swindall (R-GA) convicted of 6 counts of perjury (1989).[90][91]
Judicial branch
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Harry E. Claiborne (D) Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada, was convicted of tax evasion (1984).[92]
Walter Nixon (D) Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, was convicted of perjury (1986).[93]
 
It will be a special election if he resigns.

I am seeing it will be an appointment until the next statewide general election. That would likely make it the 2024 election unless the governor calls a special election.

If a vacancy shall happen in the representation of this State in the United States senate, it shall be filled at the general election next succeeding the happening thereof, unless such vacancy shall happen within 70 days next preceding such election, in which case it shall be filled by election at the second succeeding general election, unless the governor of this State shall deem it advisable to call a special election therefor, which he is authorized hereby to do.
https://nj.gov/state/dos-statutes-elections-19-01-09.shtml
 
Yeah the Democrats kept electing Senator Kennedy even after he killed Mary Jo

What did the law determine?


This is why your party HARPED on a crash


Because your crime spree needed a defense


Here you are doing it again


A massive record of fucking cheating
 
You can bet the party is not going to defend him


Unlike Republicans
They kept reelecting Kennedy after he killed Mary Jo while drunken driving. He ran off from the scene and didn't try to help her. He got away with homicide and you guys just kept reelecting him.
 
They kept reelecting Kennedy after he killed Mary Jo while drunken driving. He ran off from the scene and didn't try to help her. He got away with homicide and you guys just kept reelecting him.

Want to talk about all the others on that same Nixon List?



There is a reason why you get stuck on a car accident that was determined by POLICE to be a car crash you lie bag


Lots of non stop Republican criming on that list huh
 
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