New Jersey Democrat Senator Bob Menendez has been underneath investigation for alleged corruption more times than anyone can count.
Now it’s occurring once more. Menendez and his spouse are being investigated over claims that they accepted bars of gold in change for favors, in any other case often known as a bribe.
Will this be the time that the senator’s luck lastly runs out?
FOX News reviews:
Feds probing if Dem Sen Menendez or spouse accepted gold bars price lots of of 1000’s from felon: report
Federal investigators are probing whether or not Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez or his spouse accepted lots of of 1000’s of {dollars} price of gold bars from a felon in a commerce for assist, based on a report.
NBC Information 4 reported Monday that the FBI and IRS prison investigators try to find out if Menendez or his spouse had taken as much as $400,000 price of gold bars from Fred Daibes, a New Jersey developer and former financial institution chairman, or his associates in a swap for Menendez reaching out to the Justice Division to assist the “admitted felon” accused of banking crimes.
Daibes starred down federal financial institution fraud expenses on the time of the alleged handoff that might have netted him as much as a decade in jail, the report says.
Witnesses are at present testifying earlier than a Manhattan federal grand jury weighing whether or not to carry corruption expenses towards Menendez, the publication reported.
“For functions of the Federal Extortion Act, it makes no distinction if the senator took an official act as long as he accepted the cash and there was data the cash was in change for that official affect, even when he by no means carried out what he had promised he would do,” NBC Authorized Analyst Danny Cevallos mentioned of the ordeal.
Even the liberal media is reporting on this and that’s a foul signal for Menendez.
Federal prosecutors are trying into whether or not an admitted felon helped prepare to present gold bars price lots of of 1000’s of {dollars} to New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez or his spouse in change for assist. https://t.co/flP0z0Pebs
— NBC Information (@NBCNews) September 21, 2023
The senator has a significant issue right here.