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| Embattled Sen. Bob Menendez spent years helping developer and imam behind controversial ground zero mosque |
| 2023-09-24 |
| [NY Post] Sen. Robert Menendez spent years helping the Egyptian-American imam behind the controversial Ground Zero Mosque — a plan the embattled Democrat later championed. Menendez, 69, was indicted on federal bribery charges Friday, along with his wife, for schemes that allegedly benefited the government of Egypt and three New Jersey businessmen. Starting in 1989, when the senator was the mayor of Union City, NJ, Menendez reportedly secured more than $2 million in public cash and loans for Egyptian-American imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. The funding was meant to renovate three low-income apartment buildings Rauf owned there, according to reports — buildings that, tenants complained, remained dilapidated for years after the money was received. At the same time, Rauf was in business with developer Fred Daibes — the Menendez political benefactor who allegedly bribed him with gold bars and cash, and who was named as a Menendez co-defendant Friday. Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York say they found gold bars from Daibes in the home Menendez shares with his wife Nadine. Rauf is not named in the federal indictment against Menendez and has not been accused of any wrongdoing. In 2010, when controversy erupted over Rauf’s plans to build an Islamic center and mosque two blocks from the site of the World Trade Center, Menendez cheered the proposed 13-story structure. WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT BOB MENENDEZ'S INDICTMENT New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is facing federal corruption charges related to an alleged years-long scheme. Menendez allegedly accepted bribes, including gold bars, in exchange for helping three businessmen, Wael Hana, Jose Uribe and Fred Daibes, and the country of Egypt, according to officials. Menendez and his wife, Nadine, were charged with taking hundreds of thousands in bribes, according to a Manhattan federal indictment. When the feds raided Menendez’s Englewood Cliffs home in June 2022, they found a 2019 Mercedes C-Class, at least 13 gold bars, and $566,000 in cash "stuffed in envelopes." Another $70,000 in cash was found in Nadine’s safe deposit box. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #8 ^ All true. He's gotten reckless enough they have somebody in the shadows already primed to replace him |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-09-24 15:36 |
| #7 ^ They probably had him dead to rights last time, but let him slide with a "don't make us look bad" warning. So now they aren't feeling any love for him. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-09-24 13:53 |
| #6 Well, the Fed DOJ has to look like it's doing something. Heard elsewhere, they went for the 'low hanging fruit'. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2023-09-24 13:50 |
| #5 ^^ POTATUS I'm stealing that. |
| Posted by: Nero 2023-09-24 12:06 |
| #4 Look, over here, a big fat squirrel that everybody hates and whose replacement will be just as reliable! And it makes the "Justice Department" look non-partisan, and feeds the MSM lots of juicy froth to write about. And it takes the some of the heat off Boy Wonder and the POTATUS corruption "investigation". How coincidental! |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-09-24 11:53 |
| #3 Even if he quits the Senate, Phil Murphy will appoint some NJ (D)irtbag to finish his term |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-09-24 07:45 |
| #2 Bob Menendez steps down as US Senate foreign relations chairman after indictment |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-09-24 07:19 |
| #1 Menendez was known in DC as 'crooked for a long time,' ethics lawyer says, amid bipartisan resignation calls |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-09-24 06:11 |