Menendez Convicted

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🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Nancy Solomon reports on what comes next for Sen. Bob Menendez, who has been convicted on bribery and other corruption charges.

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0:00.0	Brian Lear on
0:10.7	on WNYC now to the news of New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez's conviction on corruption charges.
0:18.0	A jury needed just two full days of deliberation to find the senator guilty on all 16 counts of bribery, obstruction
0:26.1	of justice, and acting as a foreign agent.
0:29.3	The trial revealed a web of corruption involving Menendez, his wife Nadeen, and several businessmen who sought
0:34.7	political favors, and the verdict is historic, making Menendez the first sitting senator
0:40.0	convicted of acting as an agent of a foreign government.
0:43.7	Despite mounting cause for his resignation now,
0:46.3	Menendez remains defiant and has already vowed
0:49.4	to appeal this guilty verdict.
0:51.6	He's also, at least as of now running for his seat as an
0:55.9	independent. He did not get the Democratic nomination. Our Nancy Solomon is
1:00.6	here to help us unpack the conviction and its impact on New Jersey as
1:04.9	well as national politics. Hi Nancy. Hi Brian. And listeners we will have
1:09.4	time for calls on this
1:13.8	your questions about and reactions to Senator Bob Menendez's conviction.
1:15.5	Welcome here for Nancy Solomon.
1:17.3	212 433.
1:19.5	WNYC 212 433 962.
1:25.2	Guilty on all counts.
1:27.1	I named the big categories briefly there.
1:30.4	Anything you want to say more specifically,
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