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Lately, the previous New Jersey senator Bob Menendez was ordered to serve eleven years in jail for accepting bribes in money and gold price greater than half 1,000,000 {dollars}. He’s the primary individual sentenced to jail for crimes dedicated within the Senate in additional than forty years. Menendez did favors for the federal government of Egypt whereas he was the senior Democrat on the International Relations Committee, and intervened in legal circumstances in opposition to the businessmen who have been bribing him. In New York, he broke down in tears earlier than a federal choose, pleading for leniency. Upon rising from the courtroom, he made a thinly veiled plea to the person he had as soon as voted to question. “President Trump is correct,” Menendez declared to information cameras. “This course of is political, and it’s corrupted to the core. I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores the integrity to the system.”
WNYC’s New Jersey reporter Nancy Solomon explores how Menendez, the son of working-class immigrants from Cuba, scaled the heights of American politics, after which fell dramatically. However will he serve the time? Solomon speaks with the constitutional-law professor Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, who says, “It’s onerous to know who Trump will pardon subsequent. One of many newer pardons was for the previous governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich. He was a Democrat. . . . [Trump] appears far more thinking about undermining anti-corruption legal guidelines left, proper, and heart.”
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