{"id":8481,"date":"2015-03-07T03:43:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T03:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8481"},"modified":"2015-03-07T03:43:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T03:43:58","slug":"doj-to-go-after-democratic-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8481","title":{"rendered":"DOJ to go after Democratic senator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lets hand it to the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n

It’s an equal-opportunity pursuer of corruption in government.<\/p>\n

DOJ’s target is a Democratic senator from New Jersey, Bob Menendez, who’s been accuse of using his public office to enrich private donors.<\/p>\n

Ouch … and double ouch!<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/03\/bob-menendez-federal-corruption-charges-115834.html?hp=t1_r<\/p>\n

The DOJ has been accused of being too partisan, whether it’s run by a Democrat or a Republican. The current Justice Department is under the purview of a Democratic administration, so it stands to reason that it would let allegations of misdeeds against a fellow Democrat to pass, right? Wrong!<\/p>\n

As Politico reported: “A federal grand jury in New Jersey has for months been investigating Menendez\u2019s interactions with Salomon Melgen, a close friend and financial backer of the senator, prompting Menendez to rack up hundreds of thousands in legal bills as the probe intensified. A New Jersey newspaper reported this week that several Menendez aides declined to answer questions before the grand jury, citing a constitutional privilege that covers the New Jersey Democrat and other lawmakers and staff.”<\/p>\n

I’ve got to hand it to the Justice Department, not that I think necessarily that Menendez is guilty of anything. Heck, I live way out here in Flyover Country and I haven’t been following the Menendez case carefully.<\/p>\n

My salute is to DOJ for going ahead with an investigation it could have swept away, citing “insufficient evidence” as a reason not to pursue a criminal probe.<\/p>\n

Make no mistake, justice departments of both parties have used that dodge with particular effectiveness.<\/p>\n

Not this one. Not this time.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me be very clear, very clear. I have always conducted myself appropriately and in accordance with the law,\u201d Menendez said. \u201cI am not going anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

We’ll see about that.<\/p>\n\n

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Lets hand it to the U.S. Department of Justice. It’s an equal-opportunity pursuer of corruption in government. DOJ’s target is a Democratic senator from New Jersey, Bob Menendez, who’s been accuse of using his public office to enrich private donors. Ouch … and double ouch! http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/03\/bob-menendez-federal-corruption-charges-115834.html?hp=t1_r The DOJ has been accused of being too partisan, … Continue reading DOJ to go after Democratic senator<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[129,1354,1633,3981],"class_list":["post-8481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-abuse-of-power","tag-department-of-justice","tag-ethics-examination","tag-robert-menedez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}