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Come on, Jimmy Hendrix! Come on! We need a mug shot! Put a right next to David Bowie! Welcome back to the show, glad you're here today! 5, 5, 8, 3, 9, 12, 10 on Twitter, at-rich, Z-O-L-E. This prosecution is ridiculous. It's utterly ridiculous. Tight security outside court for Trump's arraignment as he's in court right now. Don't know if he'll make any comments when he leaves the courthouse. Don't know if he'll make any comments when he gets back to Bedmond.

We'll keep Fox News on so that if there's any breaking audio, we'll go right to it so you don't have to go anywhere. Stay right here. Don't leave. That's how we're going to roll. Glad you're here today. 8, 5, 5, 8, 3, 9, 12, 10 on Twitter, at-rich, Z-O-L-E. There's another major corruption case that nobody's talking about, of course, because it involves a Democrat.

But the New York Times actually had a story about this. It's regarding New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez. You know him as Beach Bob, Airplane Bob. Oh, and you know what? There's a new federal report that just came out on the death of Jeffrey Epstein. And it's rife with evidence of foul play. So I'm again to that with you as well. But there's a story out about Bob Menendez. Senator Bob Menendez, the New Jersey Democrat, who for years and years and years has been

investigated for various things. And the story for the New York Times is how the Senator's new wife and her old friends have drawn prosecutors attention. Nadine Menendez has lived a mainly private life. Investigators appear focused on the possibility that she or the Senator received undisclosed gifts.

In early 2019, the Jersey Senator Bob Menendez and his new girlfriend, Nadine Arslanian, were riding high. He had avoided a federal bribery conviction after his trial ended with a hung jury and the couple began traveling the world. Mr. Menendez proposed to Ms. Arslanian that October in India with a grand gesture singing never enough from the greatest showman outside the Taj Mahal.

They married a year later in a small ceremony in Queens and were showered with gifts from a dozen influential friends, including the head of one of New Jersey's largest health care systems. And a lawyer who would later become the US attorney for the district of New Jersey.

The Senator moved into his wife's modest split level home and angle would cliffs New Jersey. And they have since attended two state dinners at the White House, dotting with the president of France and the prime minister of India.

Well, you know, speaking of France, you know, I'm not a big fan of French food in general, but I do love escargot snails. I do love escargot. But I heard in the CBS news of the three o'clock hour that they were, they were, they were making fun of barata.

Barata cheese, which of course is Italian. And they're saying that the people don't like barata. Barata's great. You get a chance to order good barata, okay? Get, get barata. It's highly recommended. But I digress.

Mr. Menendez, the 69 year old Democratic chairman of the Senate's powerful foreign relations committee is under investigation by the United States Justice Department for the second time and less than a decade. At this time, his wife is also in the prosecutor's crosshairs.

The new inquiry led by the United States attorney's office in Manhattan appears to be focused at least in part on the possibility that either the senator or his wife received undisclosed gifts from a company run by a friend of Ms. Menendez.

And that those gifts might have been given in exchange for political favors according to two people with knowledge of the matter matter and subpoena issued in the case.

Unlike her husband who took a seat on a New Jersey school board as a 20 year old and rose to prominence in Hudson counties famously sharp elbowed political scrum Ms. Menendez has lived a mainly private life.

She holds a master's degree in French language and civilization from New York University, but did not work outside the home while raising two children in Bergen County, New Jersey.

She is described by friends acquaintances and two former lawyers in much the same way social smart and highly fashion conscious.

Sounds like a review of Barbie. She struggled financially after 2005 divorce and even face foreclosure, but by 2020 the year she and Mr. Menendez were married.

She had formed an international consulting company and her assets included bars of gold bullion that valued as much as $250,000.

And by the way, when I hear the word bullion, I actually get nauseous because I think of chicken bullion and I've had so much chicken broth over the last four weeks, you know, I can't even tolerate it.

Ms. Menendez who was represented by a Washington based lawyer now finds herself with a center of investigation that carries the risk of steep criminal penalties and could alter the political playing field in New Jersey as her husband prepares to run for a fourth term next year.

The Senators campaign finance reports underscore the gravity of the new federal inquiry. He has spent roughly $290,000 since January in connection with the federal investigation.

Last month he created a new defense fund to avoid further draining his political accounts. The Senator has said he expected the inquiry to be successfully closed.

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