New Jersey and the Senate may not have seen the last of Sen. Bob Menendez. The Senator faces ongoing federal corruption charges after 19 years of sitting in the upper chamber. The politician has been accused of accepting cash, gold bars, a Mercedes-Benz, and payments on a home mortgage among other potential bribes. Nonetheless, Menendez […]
Sen. Bob Menendez is collecting signatures to get on the ballot in New Jersey as an independent as he tries to salvage his foundering career in the upper chamber. Source link
NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez blamed the politician’s wife Wednesday for his legal problems, telling a jury at the start of a corruption trial that the Democrat wasn’t aware his spouse had taken gifts from a trio of businessmen and didn’t know about cash and gold bars hidden in […]
In case you’re not familiar with the super PAC Defending Main Street, they typically work to get conservative Republicans elected to Congress and defend incumbents facing tight races in swing districts. But now they’re doing something a bit unusual, at least for them. They just dropped nearly half a million dollars into an advertising buy […]
NEW YORK — Sen. Bob Menendez went on trial in Manhattan federal court Monday, accused of accepting bribes of gold and cash to use his influence to deliver favors that would help three New Jersey businessmen. The Democratic senator sat with his lawyers and listened as Judge Sidney H. Stein told over 150 prospective jurors […]
WASHINGTON — A political action committee that helps Republicans get elected to Congress is doing the unusual – spending more than $450,000 to defeat a GOP incumbent. That incumbent, conservative two-term Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., voted to remove former Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker last fall. It’s just the latest example of how money […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Jury selection was scheduled to start Monday in the trial of Sen. Bob Menendez, a Democrat charged with accepting bribes of gold and cash to use his influence to deliver favors that would aid three New Jersey businessmen. Menendez, 70, will stand trial in Manhattan federal court along with two of […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and Republican challenger David McCormick will face each other in Pennsylvania’s high-stakes U.S. Senate contest this fall, as Tuesday’s primary election put the men on track for a race that is expected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars and help decide control of the Senate next year. […]
Rep. Tony Gonzales went after his Republican colleagues Sunday while defending House Speaker Mike Johnson against motion to vacate threats. Mr. Gonzales, Texas Republican, voted yes on Mr. Johnson’s four-bill foreign aid package that passed the House on Saturday and will be voted on by the Senate Tuesday. The bills passed with the support of […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Former Florida Sen. Bob Graham, who chaired the Intelligence Committee following the 2001 terrorist attacks and opposed the Iraq invasion, has died. He was 87. His family announced the death Tuesday in a statement posted on X by his daughter Gwen Graham. Graham, who served three terms in the Senate, made an […]
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