{"id":8795,"date":"2015-04-02T10:48:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T10:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8795"},"modified":"2015-04-02T10:48:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T10:48:30","slug":"menendez-indictment-seems-oddly-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8795","title":{"rendered":"Menendez indictment seems oddly &#039;normal&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>My proverbial trick knee is throbbing again.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sending me a grim message that the federal indictment of Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey on corruption charges signals a hunt for others who are might be involved in the same kind of cozy relationships alleged in the 68-page indictment against the Democratic lawmaker.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/04\/robert-menendez-indicted-116581.html?hp=r1_3<\/p>\n<p>You hear about these kinds of things occasionally involving senators and House members. They do favors for pals, develop relationships that raise a lot of questions &#8212; not to mention eyebrows.<\/p>\n<p>Is Menendez alone in this? That trick knee of mine tells me &#8220;No. Not by a long shot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Menendez is the leading Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He&#8217;s stepping down from his leadership positions in the Senate until this matter gets resolved.<\/p>\n<p>Also indicted is Dr. Solomon\u00a0Melgen, a Florida ophthalmologist and longtime friend of Menendez. The indictment goes into great deal about the emails exchanged over several years between the men, suggesting alleged criminal activity, deal-making and favors.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty salacious stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering this morning if\u00a0all this will\u00a0lead investigators down a lot of other paths, toward the doorsteps of other members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My proverbial trick knee is throbbing again. It&#8217;s sending me a grim message that the federal indictment of Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey on corruption charges signals a hunt for others who are might be involved in the same kind of cozy relationships alleged in the 68-page indictment against the Democratic lawmaker. http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/04\/robert-menendez-indicted-116581.html?hp=r1_3 You &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8795\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Menendez indictment seems oddly &#039;normal&#039;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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],"tags":[1161,1414,1705,3982,4208],"class_list":["post-8795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-corruption","tag-doj","tag-federal-indictment","tag-robert-menendez","tag-senate-foreign-relations-committee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795","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=8795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}