US Senator Bob Menendez guilty verdicts give New York prosecutors a win after high-profile setbacks
The U.S. Attorneyโs Office has seen mixed results in cases involving public officials, in large part because of Supreme Court rulings.
Bob Menendez
US Senator Menendez convicted at corruption trial, cementing political downfall
US Senator Bob Menendez was convicted on Tuesday (16 July) on all 16 criminal counts he faced including bribery at his corruption trial in Manhattan federal court, completing the once-powerful New Jersey Democrat’s dramatic downfall.
Court testimony indicates Jim Biden was in business with โmembers of the Qatari governmentโ
The alleged arrangements would be some of the closest known links between a Biden relative and a foreign government.
2 Trump-aligned Republican operatives face foreign agent charges for helping Qatar
Barry Bennett and Doug Watts cut deferred prosecution deals over claims of undisclosed lobbying for Qatar.
โItโs crazyโ: Shutdown caps week from hell for US Congress
Back in the 1990s, as then-Speaker Gingrich put it, Republicans could at least โafford to have five or six people be idiots.โ
New US Senate foreign relations chair will look at Turkish F-16 deal
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s new chairman on 28 September said he would look at Turkey’s F-16 fighter jet deal and that more issues than Sweden’s ascension to NATO would affect the decision on lifting his predecessor’s longstanding hold.