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On the Media midweek podcast. I'm Michael Lohinger.

This week, we're sharing the third and final episode of Dead End, the rise and fall of

Goldbar Bob Menendez, a brand new series about the disgraced former senator.

For WNYC, reporter and host Nancy Solomon asks, why would a man at the top of the

political world risk everything? Here, Nancy reconstructs what went wrong.

Bob Menendez is a creature of habit.

When he's in his hometown, he likes to get breakfast at the IHop.

His adult children, the MSNBC host Alicia Menendez,

and the Congressman Rob Menendez,

joked about his habits in a campaign video a few years ago.

Have you ever been to a restaurant with him

that he's been to more than three times where he's been to one three times where he's

ordered something different?

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