{"id":1428754,"date":"2023-09-22T13:30:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T17:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1428754"},"modified":"2023-09-22T13:30:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T17:30:22","slug":"democrat-sen-bob-menendez-indicted-over-gold-bar-bribery-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/democrat-sen-bob-menendez-indicted-over-gold-bar-bribery-scheme\/1428754\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez Indicted Over Gold Bar Bribery Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez Indicted Over Gold Bar Bribery Scheme<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has been <strong>indicted for allegedly accepting bribes in the form of gold bars<\/strong>, according to federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/RhU7vArQ.jpg?itok=qnVm3A7k\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bars, which were valued at approximately $400,000, were allegedly given to him by a developer, Fred Daibes, who was facing <strong>federal bank charges<\/strong>. Daibes allegedly bribed Mendez in exchange for assistance in his case.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of facing over 10 years in prison, <strong>Daibes only ended up serving probation after striking an agreement with the US Attorney&#8217;s Office in New Jersey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A press event will be held today at 11:00 a.m. to announce the unsealing of an indictment charging Robert Menendez, U.S. Senator from New Jersey, and his wife, Nadine Menendez, with bribery offenses in connection with their corrupt relationship with three New Jersey businessmen. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CLTXnU0mAm\">pic.twitter.com\/CLTXnU0mAm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 US Attorney SDNY (@SDNYnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SDNYnews\/status\/1705210541717807243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Developing&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Fri, 09\/22\/2023 &#8211; 09:30<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/democrat-sen-bob-menendez-indicted-over-gold-bar-bribery-scheme\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/democrat-sen-bob-menendez-indicted-over-gold-bar-bribery-scheme<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez Indicted Over Gold Bar Bribery Scheme Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has been indicted for allegedly accepting bribes in the form of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1428754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-5ZGq","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}