Dante
"The Libido for the Ugly"
Senator Robert Menendez is being tried in a court of law. He is a Democrat. I wonder if he were a Republican if he would be so all alone out there. It's incredible -- the Democrats and their supporters are not out demanding things as we saw and see happen when Republicans are brought into the justice system - as defendants.
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After a month and a half of testimony from government witnesses, lawyers for Senator Robert Menendez this week are expected to begin rebutting the web of corruption charges facing New Jersey’s senior senator, once one of the most powerful Democrats in Washington.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are likely to wrap up their case against Mr. Menendez by Wednesday. Mr. Menendez’s lawyers will then begin to call witnesses; they have said they might call as many as four dozen.
Mr. Menendez, 70, has pleaded not guilty to charges that he doled out political favors to friends and foreign governments in exchange for bribes both eye-popping and mundane: hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, gold bars, a Mercedes-Benz, Formula One race tickets, a reclining chair and an exercise machine.
He is charged with acting as an agent of a foreign government and is the first senator in American history to be indicted twice in separate bribery cases — facts that have infused the proceeding with a sober, precedent-setting tone.

Formula 1 Tickets and a Fixation on Gold: Menendez Trial Takeaways
Senator Robert Menendez’s lawyers are expected to start calling witnesses to rebut the government’s bribery case as early as Wednesday.
Formula 1 Tickets and a Fixation on Gold: Menendez Trial Takeaways
Senator Robert Menendez’s lawyers are expected to start calling witnesses to rebut the government’s bribery case as early as Wednesday.After a month and a half of testimony from government witnesses, lawyers for Senator Robert Menendez this week are expected to begin rebutting the web of corruption charges facing New Jersey’s senior senator, once one of the most powerful Democrats in Washington.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are likely to wrap up their case against Mr. Menendez by Wednesday. Mr. Menendez’s lawyers will then begin to call witnesses; they have said they might call as many as four dozen.
Mr. Menendez, 70, has pleaded not guilty to charges that he doled out political favors to friends and foreign governments in exchange for bribes both eye-popping and mundane: hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, gold bars, a Mercedes-Benz, Formula One race tickets, a reclining chair and an exercise machine.
He is charged with acting as an agent of a foreign government and is the first senator in American history to be indicted twice in separate bribery cases — facts that have infused the proceeding with a sober, precedent-setting tone.