Anonymous wrote:Disgusting. Alicia had a sub for her show yesterday. I wouldn't show up if my father was acting so shamefully either.

She is slated to join a new weekend show with Michael Steele and Symone Sanders, so it may be related to that. But after the Chris Cuomo/Andrew Cuomo stuff, it makes sense for them to pull her from an anchor position so she doesn’t have to report on her dad.

Anonymous wrote:Gold Bar Bob

I'm loving the image of envelopes of cash - stuffed into his jacket with "US SENATE" emblazoned on it. So, so funny.

Gold Bar Bob

Nearly half a million dollars in cash was found stuffed inside envelopes and stashed inside the pockets of clothing hanging in the closets of the Menendez's home in Englewood Cliffs, including a big roll of bills in a jacket from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus with Menendez's name on it.

Fingerprints belonging to the driver of co-defendant Fred Daibes were found on at least one of the envelopes, as well as his DNA and his return address, prosecutors said. "Thank you," Nadine Menendez texted Daibes around Jan. 24, 2022, according to the indictment. “Christmas in January.”

Patrice Schiano, a former FBI forensic accountant who is currently a lecturer at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said that’s “pretty damning.”

“It doesn’t surprise me that there might be cash hidden in the house because if they took it to the bank that’s going to be reported,” Schiano said. “But that’s going to be hard to defend because any jury is going to be like, ‘That’s a lot of cash in house’.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/bob-menendezs-indictment-highlights-gold-bars-wads-cash-rcna116935

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Anonymous wrote: Friendly reminder: In 2022, only 290 in 71,954 federal criminal cases—about 0.4%—went to trial and were acquitted. Overall, the federal government has something like 97% conviction rate .

The corrupt scum bag can play hard-to-get all he wants but I see a plea deal coming. At his age , a stiff sentence might as well be called a life sentence and he couldn't be more deserving.

-Bleeding liberal.

Friendly reminder. Same guy took his last case on very similar allegations all the way to trial and got off.

This case is much different and they seem to have pretty damning evidence.
Of course, if they find a jury of 12 Menendez voters, anything could happen.

There will be no Menendez voters on the jury since the charges were brought by the Southern District of New York, not the District of New Jersey.

You are not aware of how things work in NJ.
Corruption is totally accepted. In voting. In residency. In anything related to politics.

My husband is from there, my daughter is currently at college there, and I spend about a third of my time there and own three different properties there. There will be no New Jersey residents in an SDNY jury.

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Anonymous wrote: Friendly reminder: In 2022, only 290 in 71,954 federal criminal cases—about 0.4%—went to trial and were acquitted. Overall, the federal government has something like 97% conviction rate .

The corrupt scum bag can play hard-to-get all he wants but I see a plea deal coming. At his age , a stiff sentence might as well be called a life sentence and he couldn't be more deserving.

-Bleeding liberal.

Friendly reminder. Same guy took his last case on very similar allegations all the way to trial and got off.

A mistrial is getting off ? Lay off the pipe.

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Anonymous wrote: Friendly reminder: In 2022, only 290 in 71,954 federal criminal cases—about 0.4%—went to trial and were acquitted. Overall, the federal government has something like 97% conviction rate .

The corrupt scum bag can play hard-to-get all he wants but I see a plea deal coming. At his age , a stiff sentence might as well be called a life sentence and he couldn't be more deserving.

-Bleeding liberal.

Friendly reminder. Same guy took his last case on very similar allegations all the way to trial and got off.

This case is much different and they seem to have pretty damning evidence.
Of course, if they find a jury of 12 Menendez voters, anything could happen.

True. New Yorkers are equally as corrupted.

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Anonymous wrote: Friendly reminder: In 2022, only 290 in 71,954 federal criminal cases—about 0.4%—went to trial and were acquitted. Overall, the federal government has something like 97% conviction rate .

The corrupt scum bag can play hard-to-get all he wants but I see a plea deal coming. At his age , a stiff sentence might as well be called a life sentence and he couldn't be more deserving.

-Bleeding liberal.

Friendly reminder. Same guy took his last case on very similar allegations all the way to trial and got off.

More precisely, he got a hung jury and then Trump’s DOJ opted not to try him again.

And in the meantime, SCOTUS and the second circuit have been throwing out public corruption cases left and right. Earlier this year, SCOTUS threw out the conviction of a former Cuomo aide who was taking money from developers who was using his power to get them out of having to negotiate with unions. And the the second circuit threw out the conviction of state senator who was taking money in return for helping to direct grants. And the second circuit also threw out a few counts of Sheldon Silver's conviction for accepting bribes. It's become very very hard to prove bribery of public officials, even when it is very clear they took money from people and then did things that helped those same people out.

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Anonymous wrote: Friendly reminder: In 2022, only 290 in 71,954 federal criminal cases—about 0.4%—went to trial and were acquitted. Overall, the federal government has something like 97% conviction rate .

The corrupt scum bag can play hard-to-get all he wants but I see a plea deal coming. At his age , a stiff sentence might as well be called a life sentence and he couldn't be more deserving.

-Bleeding liberal.

Friendly reminder. Same guy took his last case on very similar allegations all the way to trial and got off.

This case is much different and they seem to have pretty damning evidence.
Of course, if they find a jury of 12 Menendez voters, anything could happen.

There will be no Menendez voters on the jury since the charges were brought by the Southern District of New York, not the District of New Jersey.

You are not aware of how things work in NJ.
Corruption is totally accepted. In voting. In residency. In anything related to politics.

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Anonymous wrote: Friendly reminder: In 2022, only 290 in 71,954 federal criminal cases—about 0.4%—went to trial and were acquitted. Overall, the federal government has something like 97% conviction rate .

The corrupt scum bag can play hard-to-get all he wants but I see a plea deal coming. At his age , a stiff sentence might as well be called a life sentence and he couldn't be more deserving.

-Bleeding liberal.

Friendly reminder. Same guy took his last case on very similar allegations all the way to trial and got off.

This case is much different and they seem to have pretty damning evidence.
Of course, if they find a jury of 12 Menendez voters, anything could happen.

There will be no Menendez voters on the jury since the charges were brought by the Southern District of New York, not the District of New Jersey.

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Anonymous wrote: Friendly reminder: In 2022, only 290 in 71,954 federal criminal cases—about 0.4%—went to trial and were acquitted. Overall, the federal government has something like 97% conviction rate .

The corrupt scum bag can play hard-to-get all he wants but I see a plea deal coming. At his age , a stiff sentence might as well be called a life sentence and he couldn't be more deserving.

-Bleeding liberal.

Friendly reminder. Same guy took his last case on very similar allegations all the way to trial and got off.

More precisely, he got a hung jury and then Trump’s DOJ opted not to try him again.

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His argument is that he’s worried that the United States government will start confiscating cash just just like the totalitarian regime his family fled.
Wonderful.

And, claiming that he has withdrawn $480,000 from his personal savings will need to be proven by him. This should be fun.

I wonder how he will explain away the gold bars or the Mercedes. Neither were mentioned in his pitiful press conference.

He doesn't have to explain any of that. The burden of proof is on the gov. And they are going to have a very hard to proving he got any of this in exchange for an official act.

Parsing the indictment, it sounds like Menendez got caught on intercepts of foreign comms. So he was communicating with foreigners (Egyptians?) we were already surveilling and started talking about pay-for-play.

It astounds me how deeply Egypt's tentacles go into DC right now. They got both parties sewn up.

Wait, the feds were spying on a senator and tapping his wires?!?!?!? Does Trump know about this?

No I think they were surveiling the Egyptian's and recorded their conversations with Menendez.

PP knows that. PP is making fun of Republicans in general and Trump in particular.

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Anonymous wrote: Friendly reminder: In 2022, only 290 in 71,954 federal criminal cases—about 0.4%—went to trial and were acquitted. Overall, the federal government has something like 97% conviction rate .

The corrupt scum bag can play hard-to-get all he wants but I see a plea deal coming. At his age , a stiff sentence might as well be called a life sentence and he couldn't be more deserving.

-Bleeding liberal.

Friendly reminder. Same guy took his last case on very similar allegations all the way to trial and got off.

This case is much different and they seem to have pretty damning evidence.
Of course, if they find a jury of 12 Menendez voters, anything could happen.

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Anonymous wrote: Friendly reminder: In 2022, only 290 in 71,954 federal criminal cases—about 0.4%—went to trial and were acquitted. Overall, the federal government has something like 97% conviction rate .

The corrupt scum bag can play hard-to-get all he wants but I see a plea deal coming. At his age , a stiff sentence might as well be called a life sentence and he couldn't be more deserving.

-Bleeding liberal.

Friendly reminder. Same guy took his last case on very similar allegations all the way to trial and got off.

Also, the fed conviction rate against well-funded defendants who are not in pre-trial confinement is not nearly so good. The high conviction rate (overwhelmingly pleas) mostly reflects the fact that most defendants are poor, sitting in jail awaiting trial, and can't fund an adequate defense.