{"id":2296386,"date":"2024-07-16T13:38:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T17:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bob-menendez-found-guilty-on-all-counts-in-bribery-trial-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T13:40:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T17:40:09","slug":"bob-menendez-convicted-on-all-charges-in-bribery-trial-washington-examiner-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bob-menendez-convicted-on-all-charges-in-bribery-trial-washington-examiner-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Menendez convicted on all charges in bribery trial &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fbob-menendez-convicted-on-all-charges-in-bribery-trial-washington-examiner-2%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=2296386&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--><p>The article discusses the conviction of Senator Bob Menendez on 16 federal counts, \u2063including bribery, extortion, and acting as a foreign agent. Menendez is the seventh sitting U.S. senator to be convicted of a federal crime and faces a\u200c maximum sentence \u200dof 222 \u200dyears in prison. The\u2062 verdict puts pressure \u2064on him to resign before his \u200bterm expires. \u2063Menendez&#8217;s co-defendants were also \u200cfound guilty, and prosecutors claim he\u2062 sold out his office for personal gain. The trial featured evidence of \u200bcash and gold bars found\u200b in Menendez&#8217;s home, as well as \u200btestimony from witnesses. Menendez&#8217;s defense tried to\u200b shift blame \u200dto\u200c his wife, but\u2064 prosecutors rejected this claim. Senator Chuck Schumer called \u200cfor Menendez&#8217;s resignation, and his \u200cDemocratic replacement nominee also urged him to step down.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">\n<div class=\"tdb-search-form-inner\"><input class=\"tdb-head-search-form-input\" placeholder=\" \" type=\"text\" value name=\"s\" autocomplete=\"off\"><button class=\"wpb_button wpb_btn-inverse btn tdb-head-search-form-btn\" title=\"Search\" type=\"submit\"><span>Search<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Bob Menendez found guilty on all counts in bribery trial<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> <a class=\"tdb-author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/barnini-chakraborty\/\">Barnini Chakraborty<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2024-07-16T13:00:48-04:00\">July 16, 2024 1:00 pm<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1668576\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bob-menendez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez\">Sen. Bob Menendez<\/a> (D-NJ) on Tuesday was convicted<strong> <\/strong>on a raft of federal charges in what prosecutors claimed was a coordinated yearslong bribery and conspiracy scheme.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Menendez was charged on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdny\/pr\/us-senator-robert-menendez-his-wife-and-three-new-jersey-businessmen-charged-bribery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"16 federal counts\">16 federal counts<\/a> including extortion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-antonio-delgado-named-ny-lieutenant-gov-replaces-democrat-who-was-indicted\/\" title=\"Rep. Antonio Delgado Named NY Lieutenant Gov, Replaces Democrat Who Was Indicted\">honest services wire fraud<\/a>, obstruction of justice, acting as a foreign agent for Egypt, bribery, and conspiracy. He was found guilty on all 16 counts.&nbsp;The jury deliberated for more than 12 hours over the course of three days.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) enters federal court in New York, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The verdict makes Menendez the seventh sitting U.S. senator to be convicted of a federal crime and puts pressure on the disgraced Democrat to resign before his term expires at the end of the year. He is also the first senator to be charged with acting as a foreign agent and the first to be indicted in separate bribery cases. His first prosecution, in 2017, resulted in a mistrial after jurors could not come to a unanimous verdict.<\/p>\n<p>Menendez sat expressionless in the courtroom as the guilty verdict was read over and over. Sentencing will be Oct. 29, exactly a week before the election.<\/p>\n<p>The third-term Democrat from New Jersey was accused of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars, a luxury convertible, furniture, and 13 gold bars in exchange for steering aid to Egypt, setting up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bob-menendez-convicted-on-all-charges-in-bribery-trial-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Bob Menendez convicted on all charges in bribery trial - Washington Examiner\">lucrative halal meat monopoly<\/a>, and disrupting criminal investigations on behalf of his friends and family.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The most serious charges of extortion and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/17-florida-sheriffs-deputies-accused-of-stealing-about-500000-in-pandemic-relief-funds\/\" title=\"17 Florida deputies accused of stealing 0,000 in pandemic relief funds.\">wire fraud carry<\/a> a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Menendez faces a maximum of 222 years in prison for all 16 charges, but it&rsquo;s likely any sentences would run concurrently. At age 70, he likely faces the prospect of spending the rest of his life behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after the verdict was read, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the Senate Majority Leader, said that Menendez should resign.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In light of this guilty verdict, Senator Menendez must now do what is right for his constituents, the Senate, and our country, and resign,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Andy Kim, the Democratic nominee to replace Menendez in the Senate, called on Menendez to resign immediately. He called the verdict a &ldquo;sad and somber day for New Jersey and our country.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Menendez&rsquo;s co-defendants, New Jersey businessmen Wael Hana and Fred Daibes, were also found guilty on all counts they were charged with. Hana was charged with six counts and Dabies seven.<\/p>\n<p>Menendez spent five decades in public service and rose to chair the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It was there that prosecutors claim he sold out his office and his constituents for personal&nbsp;gain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the nine-week trial, prosecutors showed jurors hundreds of text messages, emails, and photographs of the $480,000 in cash and gold bars that were found in a 2022 raid of the New Jersey home of Menendez and his wife, Nadine Menendez.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They also called dozens of witnesses in an attempt to pin the blame on Menendez.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution&rsquo;s star witness was Jose Uribe, a New Jersey businessman who pleaded guilty to bribing the senator. He testified over three days that his goal was to get Menendez&rsquo;s help to&nbsp;&ldquo;stop and kill&rdquo; an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bob-menendez-charged-with-obstruction-of-justice-in-sprawling-corruption-case\/\" title=\"Bob Menendez faces obstruction of justice charges in a wide-ranging corruption case\">insurance fraud investigation<\/a> that was being conducted by New Jersey&rsquo;s attorney general. In return, Uribe testified he agreed to buy Nadine Menendez, then the senator&rsquo;s girlfriend, a new convertible worth more than $60,000.<\/p>\n<p>Much of Menendez&rsquo;s defense was to blame his wife, Nadine Menendez.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His lawyers claim it was she who carried out the nefarious deals and that Menendez was left in the dark. Prosecutors pushed back on those claims.<\/p>\n<p>In the government&rsquo;s rebuttal, prosecutor Daniel Richenthal took aim at the defense&rsquo;s strategy to shift blame.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Are you going to accept&nbsp;that there was a secret plan to dupe Sen. Menendez?&rdquo; Richenthal asked the jury. &ldquo;That his wife cooked up a scheme to secretly collect money and gold by invoking his name with two men, one of whom was his close friend, and he never learned about it?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He added, &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s be clear about what that means. It means that she duped her husband &mdash; her boyfriend and now husband &mdash; an experienced public official, one of the most powerful people in the entire U.S.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Congress<\/a>&nbsp;for five years.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Nadine Menendez was arrested and charged alongside her husband. She was supposed to be one of his co-defendants but had her trial delayed as she recovers from breast cancer. She has pleaded not guilty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the second day of deliberations, jurors asked the judge whether they needed to be unanimous to reach an acquittal on any count.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER \">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge&nbsp;Sidney Stein answered that the panel must be unanimous for each of the 18 counts against Menendez, Hana, and Daibes. They would have to either unanimously choose to convict or to acquit on the charges.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jurors later asked another question about one bribery count against Menendez and a related charge against Daibes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates. <\/em><\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1668576\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1668576\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) was found guilty on all 16 federal charges, including bribery and conspiracy, in a coordinated scheme that prosecutors claimed lasted for years. This makes him the seventh sitting U.S. senator to be convicted of a federal crime. The verdict puts pressure on Menendez to resign before his term ends at the end of the year. He faces a maximum of 222 years in prison, with sentencing scheduled for October 29. After the verdict, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic nominee Andy Kim called for Menendez to resign. Menendez&#8217;s co-defendants were also found guilty on all charges. During the trial, prosecutors presented evidence of cash, gold bars, and luxury items exchanged for political favors. 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