After a political profession that included virtually twenty years as a Democrat in the USA Senate, Bob Menendez is taking a look at spending greater than a decade in a United States federal jail.
And after a ruling Wednesday by a federal appeals court docket, he’s going to be behind bars whereas his enchantment performs out.
However Menendez, convicted in July of last year of 16 corruption expenses, remains to be claiming he was the sufferer of a prosecution vendetta.
Appeals court docket denies former Sen. Bob Menendez’s bid to remain out of jail https://t.co/TrPgpYcFuz
— The Hill (@thehill) June 11, 2025
Wednesday’s choice by a panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Courtroom of Appeals judges denied a bid for bail that Menendez sought whereas he appeals his conviction, in keeping with the Associated Press. The two-1 ruling didn’t embrace any rationalization, however its affect was evident.
Except the Supreme Courtroom takes up the case, Menendez, who’s scheduled to report back to jail on Tuesday, goes to be serving his 11-year sentence at the same time as he fights to get the conviction overturned.
The case of the previous New Jersey senator, who resigned from the Senate after his conviction, was not solely a shame to the federal government and the Backyard State, it turned a nationwide joke, with its FBI raid turning up gold bars, in addition to copious amounts of cash hidden within the Menendez dwelling.
In 2023, then-Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz argued on the House floor that Menendez demanding bribes in gold bars was an indication of how inflation had gotten beneath then-President Joe Biden.
Even the infamously liberal comic Jon Stewart mocked Menendez on Comedy Central’s “The Day by day Present.”
However Menendez continues to say innocence and is combating for his political fame.
In a lengthy thread posted to the social media platform X on Wednesday, he argued that his case was a results of “weaponization” within the authorized system, overseen by a prosecutor utilizing it to advance his personal political profession.
He wrote that Damian Williams, the now former U.S. legal professional who dealt with his case for the Justice Division’s Southern District of New York workplace, is a protege of former U.S. Lawyer Basic Merrick Garland and an ally of Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg — and implicitly likened his personal prosecution to the authorized assaults mounted by these males in opposition to now-President Donald Trump.
“The underside line is that Damian Williams goes to run for public workplace and all of those prosecutions are simply methods for him to construct credibility for a future political profession,” he wrote.
Some social media customers noticed the thread as a part of an effort to get assist from the White Home.
Days earlier than he’s set to report back to federal jail, Bob Menendez is making a fairly specific enchantment to Trump pic.twitter.com/EiPfIlLbo8
— Allan Smith (@akarl_smith) June 11, 2025
“Days earlier than he’s set to report back to federal jail, Bob Menendez is making a fairly specific enchantment to Trump,” one wrote.
Mendez’s spouse, Nadine, was convicted of accepting bribes throughout a separate trial in April, the AP famous. Her sentencing is about for Sept. 11.
This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.
