{"id":2012335,"date":"2023-08-25T17:10:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T21:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-weighs-charges-against-dem-senator-in-corruption-probe-report\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T17:11:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T21:11:08","slug":"doj-weighs-charges-against-dem-senator-in-corruption-probe-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-weighs-charges-against-dem-senator-in-corruption-probe-report\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ considers charges for Dem Senator in corruption probe: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdoj-weighs-charges-against-dem-senator-in-corruption-probe-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2012335&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Sen.\u2063 Robert Menendez Facing Potential Corruption Charges<\/h2>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>Sen. Robert Menendez (D., N.J.) \/ Getty\u200c Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Department of Justice is currently considering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-lawyer-investigating-corrupt-chicago-democrats-will-remain-on-despite-getting-fired-by-biden\/\" title=\"US Lawyer Investigating Corrupt Chicago Democrats WILL REMAIN On Despite Getting Fired By Biden\">corruption charges<\/a> against Senator Bob Menendez\u2062 (D., N.J.), as reported by the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/prosecutors-weigh-charges-against-sen-bob-menendez-5c56755d\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Menendez has \u2063been under investigation for \u2063allegedly accepting a Mercedes and a \u200cluxury apartment \u2062from New Jersey&#8217;s\u200c IS EG Halal in exchange\u200c for \u200cpolitical \u200bfavors. The \u200dcompany had won\u2062 an exclusive contract\u2064 from\u200b Egypt\u200b to \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-weighs-charges-against-dem-senator-in-corruption-probe-report\/\" title=\"DOJ considers charges for Dem Senator in corruption probe: Report\">certify halal meat \u200bexports<\/a>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-democrat-made-fun-of-texas-for-power-issues-now-hes-reminding-his-state-to-brace-for-blackouts\/\" title=\"California Democrat Made Fun Of Texas For Power Issues. Now He\u2019s Reminding His State To Brace For Blackouts.\">raised eyebrows due<\/a> to \u200cthe head \u2064of the company not being \u2063Muslim and lacking experience in halal\u2062 certification. Investigators are looking into whether \u2064Menendez, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee responsible \u200dfor allocating billions of dollars\u200b to Egypt,\u200c used his influence to secure the contract in\u200c return for these gifts.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors will be meeting with Menendez&#8217;s lawyers in the coming weeks before making a final decision, according to\u200c the <em>Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This\u200c is not the first \u2062time Menendez has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/all-in-the-family-joe-bidens-brother-also-made-big-money-from-foreign-sources\/\" title=\"Joe Biden's brother profited from foreign sources too.\">faced corruption allegations<\/a>. In 2017, he\u200d stood trial for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-is-an-american-legal-giant\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Is an American Legal Giant\">public corruption<\/a> after\u2062 being accused of providing \u200ckickbacks to a wealthy\u2063 doctor friend, \u200cSalomon Melgen. It was\u200c revealed that Melgen \u200bhad used his American\u2062 Express credit card \u2062points \u200bto pay for \u2063a three-night stay\u2062 for\u200b Menendez in a Paris hotel. In return, Menendez issued letters of support to help Melgen bring \u200dhis Latin American girlfriends into the country\u2063 on \u200cvisas, as \u2063testified by\u2063 former Senate\u200d staff. However, the \u200dtrial ended\u200b in a mistrial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice is reportedly contemplating corruption charges against Sen. Bob Menendez (D., N.J.), as per the Wall Street Journal. Menendez is being investigated for allegedly receiving a Mercedes and a luxury apartment from New Jersey&#8217;s IS EG Halal in exchange for political favors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2112,"featured_media":2012336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}