| 04.10.2023 09:03
Inside the Menendez Indictment: A Mercedes and a Secretive Fatal Crash
It was a cold evening in December 2018, and Nadine Arslanian , the soon-to-be wife of Senator Robert Menendez, was zipping through the darkened streets of suburban New Jersey in a black Mercedes-Benz sedan. She would later tell the police she did not see the man stepping out in front of her to cros...
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| 02.10.2023 20:34
New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez trial date set for May in bribery case
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez's trial on charges he pocketed bribes - including cash and $150,000 in gold bars - will begin on May 6, a federal judge ruled Monday. Judge Sidney Stein, during a hearing in Manhattan federal court, urged prosecutors to get the ball rolling on the high-profile corruptio...
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| 01.10.2023 03:00
Menendez Co-Defendant's Curious Path From Bad Deals to a Meat Monopoly
Just five years ago, Wael Hana was reeling from a string of bad business deals in New Jersey, having tried to launch a truck stop, an Italian restaurant, a limousine service and other companies without ever hitting it big. Then, his friend started dating Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, one o...
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| 29.09.2023 22:28
Duane ‘Keefe D' Davis charged with Tupac murder: Read the most incriminating passages from his book
Police finally charged a man with the drive-by shooting murder of Tupac Shakur on Friday, 27 years after he was gunned down on the Las Vegas strip. However, Tupac's family and many close to the case have been vocal about why it took Las Vegas Police and prosecutors so long to arrest Duane "Keefe D"...
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| 29.09.2023 20:18
Jimmy Carter to celebrate 99th birthday with digital mosaic from well-wishers
Former president will gather with family on Sunday as messages from admirers inspired by him are displayed publicly in Atlanta. When Jimmy Carter entered hospice in February, his family feared he might have only days left to live. Eight months later, the 39th US president will celebrate his 99th bi...
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| 28.09.2023 21:15
Bob Menendez's love triangle: Party-loving wife two-timed it with R. Kelly's lawyer
Bob Menendez's wife partied with Mob Wives and Real Housewives, then two-timed her attorney boyfriend to become the senator's lover, The Post can reveal. And during their tumultuous courtship, the New Jersey Democrat sent Capitol Police officers to his love rival's office to "bully him out of the p...
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| 28.09.2023 01:48
The Potty-Mouthed, Baby-Faced Japanese Racer Who Became a Cult Star
The pressure was on Yuki Tsunoda. Within days, he would compete in a Formula 1 race in his home country, Japan. Bad luck had forced him out of two previous races minutes before the start, and speculation was rife that he might be demoted after some disappointing performances. Yet at a fan event in...
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| 27.09.2023 19:07
Costco sells out of 1-ounce gold bars as Bob Menendez faces fed probe over gold stash
Costco said it has been selling out of its one-ounce gold bars online - even as New Jersey Sen. Bob Mendendez faces a federal probe for allegedly accepting more than $150,000 in gold bars among other gifts in exchange for handing out political favors and helping the Egyptian government. "I've gotte...
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| 27.09.2023 17:55
NJ Sen. Bob Menendez's wife totes Chanel purse to NYC court as couple pleads not guilty to pocketing bribes - including $100K in gold bars
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez's wife toted a pricey Chanel purse to Manhattan federal court Wednesday as she and her embattled husband pleaded not guilty to pocketing bribes - including cash and $100,000 in gold bars. The veteran Democrat, 69, and his 56-year-old wife, Nadine, strolled out of the Lo...
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| 27.09.2023 16:04
Side by Side, Menendez and His Wife Plead Not Guilty to Bribery Charges
Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey and his wife, Nadine Menendez, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to bribery charges, marking the second time in eight years he has stood before a federal judge accused of trading his political influence for cash and luxury items. The Menendezes were released on p...
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| 27.09.2023 09:07
Menendez due for first court appearance after bribery indictment
Washington - Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez is set to appear in court Wednesday to be arraigned after he was indicted last week for allegedly engaging in a bribery scheme that involved using his political power to help the Egyptian government and three New Jersey businessmen. The New Jersey senator a...
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| 27.09.2023 00:34
Menendez whines ‘I'm innocent!' as calls for his resignation mount: ‘What's wrong with you guys?'
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) proclaimed his innocence Tuesday after reporters cornered him in a Capitol Hill elevator amid mounting calls for his resignation from lawmakers. Menendez appeared irked by reporters questioning him about his refusal to step down from the Senate after being hit with federal...
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| 26.09.2023 21:54
NJ businessman accused of bribing Sen. Bob Menendez claims they're not friends, pleads not guilty
An Egyptian-American businessman charged with bribing New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez with gold bars tried to distance himself from the alleged crooked pol Tuesday by claiming, through his lawyer, that they weren't friends. Wael Hana, 40 - formerly of Edgewater, NJ - pleaded not guilty during a hearin...
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| 26.09.2023 20:56
Democrat turned Republican 'seriously considering' challenge to embattled senator indicted on federal charges
A spokesperson said Rep. Jeff Van Drew 'is focused on the issues before Congress' as he considers a run. Republican New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew is "seriously considering" a challenge to Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez , who is running for re-election next year despite being indicted last week on feder...
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| 26.09.2023 14:28
Pelosi and NJ Sen. Cory Booker lead calls for Menendez resignation
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) have called on Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) to step down following his indictment on bribery charges , leading a growing chorus of Senate and House Democrats demanding he quit. "Stepping down is not an admission of guilt but an ac...
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| 26.09.2023 08:29
Sen. Bob Menendez and son defy charges, announce re-election bids
Embattled New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez has announced his intention to seek re-election, just days after being indicted on federal bribery and corruption charges. Menendez's son, Rob Menendez, a first-term Democratic congressman, also declared his bid for re-election on the same day. Despite call...
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| 26.09.2023 07:32
Sen. Bob Menendez's congressman son announces House re-election bid days after father's corruption indictment
Rep. Rob Menendez, D-N.J., says he'll run for re-election amid father's indictment. Rep. Rob Menendez, a first-term Democratic congressman representing New Jersey's 8th congressional district, announced his re-election bid Monday, just three days after his father, longtime Democratic Sen. Bob Menen...
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| 25.09.2023 23:11
Of course Menendez won't resign - corrupt politicians today are shameless
Sen. Bob Menendez is running for re-election. Of course he is. Doesn't anybody have any shame anymore? Thirty years ago, Washington, DC, was a national laughingstock for re-electing Marion Barry mayor after he was caught on video smoking crack with a woman not his wife. Today, Barry would fit right...
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| 25.09.2023 23:01
The utterly shameless Sen. Bob Menendez needs to resign - now
Sen. Bob Menendez isn't giving up easily, but his defenses are already looking pretty desperate. How long before his colleagues talk him into admitting reality? On Monday, defiantly announcing his bid for re-election next year, the New Jersey Democrat insisted that keeping gobs of cash (and gold? )...
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| 25.09.2023 17:44
Menendez ripped by critics after 'shameless' defense of keeping over $400K in cash in his home: 'So corrupt'
New Jersey senator said his Cuban heritage is part of the reason he stored so much cash in his home. Social media users, particularly conservatives, widely mocked New Jersey's Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez after he claimed in the face of federal corruption charges that the hundreds of thousands of dol...
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| 25.09.2023 16:48
Defiant Sen. Bob Menendez claims he hid cash ‘because of Cuban history' (he was born in NY)
Sen. Bob Menendez on Monday denounced efforts to prosecute him on federal bribery charges , saying he kept the piles of cash that federal agents found at his home and that allegedly link him to the crimes - because he is the son of Cuban immigrants. "For 30 years, I have withdrawn thousands of doll...
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| 25.09.2023 16:09
US Senator Menendez vows to stay in Congress, fight bribery charges
U.S. Democratic Senator Bob Menendez denied wrongdoing and vowed to stay in Congress on Monday after prosecutors charged him and his wife with taking bribes from three New Jersey businessmen. Menendez's stance defied calls from elected officials in his state of New Jersey, including the state's Dem...
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| 25.09.2023 11:16
Menendez Confidently Addresses Bribery Charges
Democratic Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey is facing charges of bribery along with his wife, Nadine Menendez, as prosecutors allege that the couple accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from three New Jersey businessmen. The bribes reportedly included cash, gold, payments towards t...
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| 24.09.2023 23:11
NJ Sen. Bob Menendez expected to announce re-election bid at Monday presser - days after bribery charges
Embattled Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey is expected to defiantly announce Monday that he will seek re-election - less than a week after being indicted on explosive corruption charges. The 69-year-old Democrat issued a statement Friday, the day of his Manhattan federal indictment, insisting, "I'm...
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| 24.09.2023 16:03
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin joins Schumer in stopping short of calling on Bob Menendez to resign
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Sunday, refrained from urging his colleague Sen. Bob Menendez to step down after the New Jersey Democrat was hit with federal corruption charges. Durbin - the No. 2 Senate Democrat - described the charges against Menendez as "very serious" but emphasized...
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| 24.09.2023 15:50
AOC joins calls for Bob Menendez to resign from Senate over corruption charges
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is just the latest voice in a Democratic chorus calling for the New Jersey senator to leave office. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has joined the calls for Bob Menendez to resign, after the Democratic US senator from New Jersey was charged with accepting gold bars, a Mercedes-Ben...
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| 24.09.2023 06:27
Unveiling the Menendez Investigation: Gold Bullion and Halal Meat
In a shocking turn of events, federal prosecutors have accused Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey of accepting bribes in exchange for his influence over U.S. assistance to Egypt and favors for New Jersey businessmen. The 39-page indictment, unveiled on Friday, details the alleged bribes, which i...
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| 24.09.2023 06:03
James Bond isn't the only one who wants to drive an Aston Martin
For decades, the fictional spy James Bond helped boost sales of Aston Martin's beautifully designed sports cars and grand tourers. Now, the 110-year-old British marque has found a new star to attract customers: Fernando Alonso. The two-time world Formula One champion has racked up six podium finish...
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| 24.09.2023 03:00
Four Takeaways From the Robert Menendez Indictment
In a 39-page indictment , federal prosecutors on Friday accused Robert Menendez , the powerful New Jersey senator and Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, of accepting bribes that included a luxury car, expensive exercise machines, mortgage payments, bars of gold bullion a...
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| 23.09.2023 22:34
Embattled Sen. Bob Menendez spent years helping developer and imam behind controversial ground zero mosque
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...
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| 23.09.2023 16:55
Does Robert Menendez Have Enough Teflon to Survive Again?
In a state long attuned to the drumbeat of political corruption - salacious charges, furious denials, explosive trials - Senator Robert Menendez has often registered as the quintessential New Jersey politician. He successfully avoided charges in one case, and after federal prosecutors indicted him...
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| 23.09.2023 12:42
Corruption 101: Menendez indictment contains so many bombshell allegations, it's almost textbook
New Jersey Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez was indicted on federal bribery charges on Friday. The federal indictment against Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., of bribery is devastating. The senator enjoys the presumption of innocence, and an indictment only reflects the government's side of the case, but th...
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| 23.09.2023 10:10
Gold Bullion and Halal Meat: Inside the Menendez Investigation
It was January 2018, and Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey had just won a huge legal victory. His trial on federal bribery charges had ended in a hung jury , and the U.S. Justice Department had announced that it would not seek a new trial. He was free to walk with no criminal conviction, ready...
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| 23.09.2023 10:08
Olympic Show Jumper Eric Lamaze's Fast Life and Scandalous Downfall
If you believe Eric Lamaze , which fewer and fewer people do, the Olympic champion was given two hours to live in 2020 before he absconded from the hospital and went home to recover on his own. His vitals were failing, he says; the bleeding ulcer in his stomach was the largest the doctors had ever...
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| 23.09.2023 08:00
Country music's Maren Morris goes woke, blasts Trump. Why did she take her '80s Mercedes out of town?
The award-winning country star Maren Morris now wants to 'burn' the genre to the ground. Maren Morris announced she's leaving country music, and in case you haven't heard it's all Donald Trump's fault . Country music fans everywhere should send the former president a thank you note. She claims the...
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| 23.09.2023 01:41
Sen. Bob Menendez refuses to resign - despite calls from fellow Dems: ‘I'm not going anywhere'
Sen. Bob Menendez will not step down despite calls for his resignation after he was hit with federal corruption charges related to an alleged years-long bribery scheme, the New Jersey Democrat announced Friday. "Those who believe in justice believe in innocence until proven guilty," Menendez, 69, s...
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| 22.09.2023 23:08
Bob Menendez had built reputation as Senate's most unethical
Tales of hidden cash in jackets and concealed gold bars in closets might seem more suited to the pages of a noir crime thriller than the annals of politics. Yet these sensational allegations have come to define the career of Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez. Back in 2005, as Menendez's political trajec...
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| 22.09.2023 22:10
Bob Menendez aide asked Hunter Biden partner for then-VP to host 2010 event
An aide to Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) aiming to have then-Vice President Joe Biden host an event in 2010 first reached out to a business partner of Hunter Biden with the request, emails on the first son's abandoned laptop show. Danny O'Brien, who served as Menendez's chief of staff from 2008 to 2015,...
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| 22.09.2023 21:15
Bob Menendez seems to think he has a license to loot: Voters should take it away
Just a few years after dodging prison thanks to legal loopholes, Jersey's Sen. Bob Menendez again faces federal corruption charges: Did he just decide he had an unlimited license to loot? This time he stands indicted along with his wife Nadine and several others over a years-long scheme in which he...
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| 22.09.2023 21:12
Same legal obstacle that got Sen. Bob Menendez off the hook in 2015 factors into new indictment
A legal obstacle that helped get New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez off the hook in his 2015 federal corruption case will factor into the new criminal charges he faces in an indictment unsealed in Manhattan Friday. The veteran Democrat, 69, was previously accused by New Jersey federal prosecutors of usin...
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| 22.09.2023 20:57
Sen. Bob Menendez steps down as panel chair after bribe charges, NJ gov calls for resignation
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) will step aside from his chairmanship of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee after his indictment on bribery charges , Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Friday, as New Jersey's governor called for the long-serving lawmaker's resignation. "Bob Menendez has...
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| 22.09.2023 17:35
Senator Menendez and wife face bribery charges, Democrats demand resignation
In a shocking turn of events, two congressmen are calling for New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez to resign after he pleaded not guilty to a staggering 13 counts related to influence peddling. The charges, brought forward by federal authorities, allege that Menendez and his wife, Nadine Menendez, il...
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| 22.09.2023 17:06
Menendez Accused of Brazen Bribery Plot, Taking Cash and Gold
Robert Menendez of New Jersey, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was charged on Friday with taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, including bars of gold bullion, to wield his power abroad and at home. The three-count federal indictment depicts a brazen...
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| 22.09.2023 17:06
These Are the Key Players in the Case Against Senator Menendez
Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey faces new federal corruption charges , almost six years after a trial on unrelated claims of bribery ended with a hung jury. A 39-page indictment unsealed Friday accused Mr. Menendez of accepting thousands of dollars worth of bribes in exchange for using his po...
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| 22.09.2023 12:56
The Year Lou Reed Gave Up on Music
Lou Reed strode onto the stage at Max's Kansas City late on a Sunday night in August 1970. "Good evening," he said, addressing the crowd. "We're called the Velvet Underground. You're allowed to dance, in case you don't know. And, uh, that's about it." He introduced "I'm Waiting for the Man," a hero...
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| 22.09.2023 09:00
The Rising Costs of Owning a Car
It's getting more expensive to own and operate a new car. The average annual cost of ownership is up more than 13 percent from last year to more than $12,000, or just over $1,000 a month, according to the latest research from the automobile owners group AAA. Higher car prices and the surging costs...
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| 21.09.2023 09:36
New York pay transparency law drives change in job postings across U.S.
A New York law requiring employers to disclose job salary ranges went into effect this week and is driving even companies that are recruiting outside the state to include salary information in job descriptions as standard practice. Even when it's not required, indicating a job's wage or salary rang...
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| 20.09.2023 18:31
Texas gang member gets life without parole for killing 11-year-old boy while free on bond for capital murder
'A little boy with his whole life ahead of him was murdered because of a cold-blooded ambush in broad daylight': Harris County DA. A Texas gang member found guilty of killing an 11-year-old boy and his stepfather in 2020, while free on bond for capital murder four years later, has been sentenced to...
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| 20.09.2023 17:50
Strike at Mercedes supplier ZF's Alabama plant demands better pay and benefits
ZF intends to maintain plant operations despite UAW strike. The United Auto Workers (UAW) union said on Wednesday that 190 workers went on strike at Mercedes-supplier ZF's plant in Alabama, demanding higher pay and better healthcare benefits. The workers are also seeking an end to the tier system o...
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| 20.09.2023 14:43
Ford Reaches a Labor Deal in Canada as U.S. Talks Inch Along
Negotiations between each of the three large U.S. automakers and the United Auto Workers union remain far from being resolved, but one of the companies - Ford Motor - has averted a second strike in Canada. Late on Tuesday, the company reached a tentative labor agreement with Unifor, Canada's main a...
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