The lavish Beverly Hills mansion where the Menendez brothers fatally shot their parents in 1989 has sold for $17 million, exactly 28 years to the day after the brothers were convicted of the brutal murders. The seven-bedroom home, complete with a pool, private tennis court and two-story guest house, had been on the market since … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave NEW YORK — Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) is facing a new set of federal bribery allegations in a superseding indictment unsealed Tuesday that accuses him of providing assistance to the government of Qatar as well as Egypt. While the indictment does not add charges, it makes public … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave In late 2015, cranes at a seaport in Jacksonville, Fla., carefully hoisted U.S. military helicopters worth up to $40 million each onto a massive cargo ship set to deliver the equipment to the Egyptian government. Egypt’s Defense Ministry had turned to an unusual figure to help arrange … Read more
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was one of many people calling for New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez (D) to resign, but it only took two words to get him to change his mind. Menendez was indicted last week on bribery charges. On Saturday, McCarthy called for the senator’s resignation, saying that the indictment was “very … Read more
Comment on this storyComment Allegations that a leading U.S. senator acted secretly to advance Egyptian interests in a bribery scheme have injected a new, combustible element into Washington’s relationship with Cairo, testing a partnership already strained by growing regional competition and friction over human rights. The Justice Department on Friday announced an explosive indictment against … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his spouse had been indicted Friday on costs that they took bribes of money, gold bars and a luxurious automobile for a spread of corrupt acts, together with having the Democrat use his affect over overseas affairs to learn the authoritarian authorities of … Read more
Erik Menendez, left, and Lyle Menendez. (California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation through AP) I’ve not thought a lot concerning the Menendez brothers, Lyle and Erik, since they had been convicted in 1996 of murdering their mother and father, Jose and Kitty, of their Beverly Hills mansion. On the time of the killings, Lyle was … Read more
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Overseas Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez on Monday stated there was a short lived “lull” in Turkey’s “aggression towards its neighbors” and stated he’s in talks with the Biden administration concerning the maintain he has on future U.S. gross sales of F-16 fighter jets to Ankara. Menendez, a Democrat, stated … Read more