Sen. Bob Menendez’s corruption trial set for Monday

The New Jersey Senator is expected in court on Monday for federal corruption charges, accused of accepting lavish gifts in exchange for doing favors for foreign governments.

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[bellabonnie]

This guy goes to court for the same thing, gets away with it and does it again. He needs to go

[jtapper]

If Menendez is found guilty… throw the book at him and kick him out of the Democratic Party.

[darrellsexton]

All the politicians need to be investigated.

[TheFlyrodder]

Lock him up! Democrat or Republican, if one is corrupt, he should be punished for his crimes!

[Da-vs]

Corruption is not tolerable. Hold corrupt person accountable. Simple!

[karamort]

Any one who does criminal acts, regardless of party, wealth, bs, must be charged and tried

[Bruce-nz]

All this does is shows how dirty politics are term limits and campaign finance laws should be changed what happened to we the people

[Bruce-nz]

By the way this isn't the first time he's been charged for this s***

[Crabdust]

Incredible how fast a trial can move when judges aren't protecting the defendant.

[ruthpetetson]

He's been corrupt for decades. The shame is on him and his wife. Now the blame game. They both look to be unstable in all their ways. Evil is ugly.

[dpan]

Possession of stolen gold bars! That's a big crime itself!

[RajeefGrump]

This is a BS defense, you dont get money, gold, and cars and i heard a mortgage paid without knowing why they are paying you

[scottbaxendale]

Citizens United legalized all of this.

[michaelccopelandsr]

Elected officials should receive ONLY room and board. They are there to serve the people, NOT themselves.

[robinperronjones]

He is on trial and still in his Senator position, he should have been suspended with no salary. If he was a member of the public he could be in jail by now. A two tier justice system for sure.

[andrewfournier]

he should be on trial.. but not a day sooner than Trump

[billschiller]

And he’s still collecting his senate salary. If he worked for Disney or any other public corporation, he’d a been let go, fired, terminated. What a country!?!

[KevinRossiter-zb]

Gold is going up, up, up. Is Menendez going to have to pay capital gains on his gold bars?

[Enderj]

At the speed this happened, you’d think Trump’s trials would have finished years ago.

[rcore]

And the sneaky is he’s gonna try to get out of it and blame her. This is the kind of people we have representing us really we need to do better.