Does anyone even know this? The trial as been ongoing for nearly a month, and the major networks have given it a cumulative total of two minutes of coverage. How on earth can that possibly be? Only one plausible explanation, our democratic media does everything to protect democrats, destroy republicans and spin everything they can possibly spin. They're enabled by the fucking idiots that they target.
Menendez is accused of taking bribes from a wealthy businessman, a doctor named Melgen. Menendez is accused of accepting lavish gifts from the billionaire, including the use of private jets and fully paid for vacations. Their relationship has enabled the Senator to live a lavish lifestyle he could never afford to live otherwise.
In return, Menendez intervened with medicare on the doctor's behalf. He pressured medicare to release millions of dollars of disputed billings to the doctor's medical practice. One medicare doctor said a Menendez staffer told him to release the funds, that the case is very close to Senator, and that the practice of "bad medicine is not illegal".
As it turns out, the Senator was helping a Doctor that was subsequently convicted on 67 counts in a $ 105,000,000 medicare fraud scheme, that's right 105 million dollars. The Democratic Senator also intervened and helped obtain visas for friends of the doctors that were previously denied.
The Democratic Senator's defense? He and the doctor are friends, and friends give gifts to each other. Seriously, that's the defense, the Senator was just helping a constituent which is what Senators are supposed to do and the doctor gave him lavish gifts because they were friends. Menendez might be acquitted too, as it appears the jury is hung right now. They must a found a few democratic jurors, a/k/a fucking idiots, they are buying into that "they were friends" defense. Using that idiocy, no politician can ever be convicted.
"The defense does not dispute the core facts of the case. They admit that Menendez had ready access to the private jets and resorts paid for by Melgen. They admit Menendez got visas for the girlfriends, intervened on the port-security contract and demanded HHS allow Melgen to keep overbilling Medicare. But they are innocent, the defense says, because the government is trying to criminalize friendship."
In Connecticut, a former Republican Governor was convicted of corruption and went to jail for accepting a hot tub from a Connecticut contractor. The builder installed a hot tub in his second home, and that was considered bribery.
Menendez is accused of taking bribes from a wealthy businessman, a doctor named Melgen. Menendez is accused of accepting lavish gifts from the billionaire, including the use of private jets and fully paid for vacations. Their relationship has enabled the Senator to live a lavish lifestyle he could never afford to live otherwise.
In return, Menendez intervened with medicare on the doctor's behalf. He pressured medicare to release millions of dollars of disputed billings to the doctor's medical practice. One medicare doctor said a Menendez staffer told him to release the funds, that the case is very close to Senator, and that the practice of "bad medicine is not illegal".
As it turns out, the Senator was helping a Doctor that was subsequently convicted on 67 counts in a $ 105,000,000 medicare fraud scheme, that's right 105 million dollars. The Democratic Senator also intervened and helped obtain visas for friends of the doctors that were previously denied.
The Democratic Senator's defense? He and the doctor are friends, and friends give gifts to each other. Seriously, that's the defense, the Senator was just helping a constituent which is what Senators are supposed to do and the doctor gave him lavish gifts because they were friends. Menendez might be acquitted too, as it appears the jury is hung right now. They must a found a few democratic jurors, a/k/a fucking idiots, they are buying into that "they were friends" defense. Using that idiocy, no politician can ever be convicted.
"The defense does not dispute the core facts of the case. They admit that Menendez had ready access to the private jets and resorts paid for by Melgen. They admit Menendez got visas for the girlfriends, intervened on the port-security contract and demanded HHS allow Melgen to keep overbilling Medicare. But they are innocent, the defense says, because the government is trying to criminalize friendship."
In Connecticut, a former Republican Governor was convicted of corruption and went to jail for accepting a hot tub from a Connecticut contractor. The builder installed a hot tub in his second home, and that was considered bribery.