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Trenton NJ, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is facing criticism for allegedly utilizing taxpayer resources to promote his wife, Tammy Murphy, as she campaigns for a U.S. Senate seat. Critics argue that the governor’s press office has released favorable press releases about Tammy Murphy, leveraging her role as first lady.
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Ridgewood NJ, the ethically challenged Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), having survived an indictment and two previous investigations over the past 16 years, the last just five years ago found himself and his party in the same place again, just two years before his own reelection.
Continue reading Latest Legal Troubles Raise Concern Over Senator Robert Menendez For Democrats
October 16,2017
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Ridgewood NJ, Federal prosecutors argue that if the Menendez case gets tossed it would legalize bribery of public officials. Faced with the grim prospect that a federal court judge may throw out some of the charges against Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez based on his reading of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, federal prosecutors warned over the weekend that such a move would not only harm their case against Menendez but also “jettison the vast majority of bribery prosecutions” and “broadly legalize pay-to-play politics.”
Federal prosecutors raised those concerns after U.S. District Court Judge William H. Walls suggested that the overturning of the conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell last year, the high court also invalidated the “stream of benefits” theory of bribery that prosecutors have used to build cases against Democrat Menendez and other public officials.