Former Sen. Menendez learns his fate in corruption, bribery case

Former Democratic Senator from New Jersey, Robert Menendez, has finally learned his fate in the bribery and corruption case that had him resigning his seat in disgrace.

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “As the grand jury charged, between 2018 and 2022, Senator Menendez and his wife engaged in a corrupt relationship with Wael Hana, Jose Uribe, and Fred Daibes – three New Jersey businessmen who collectively paid hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes, including cash, gold, a Mercedes Benz, and other things of value – in exchange for Senator Menendez agreeing to use his power and influence to protect and enrich those businessmen and to benefit the Government of Egypt. My Office is firmly committed to rooting out corruption, without fear or favor, and without any regard to partisan politics. We will continue to do so.”

In June 2022, the FBI raided the New Jersey home of Menendez and his lovely wife Nadine. During the search, they uncovered evidence of a bribery scheme, which included cash, gold bars, a luxury convertible, and furniture. They found more than $480,000 in cash, a lot of it hidden in envelopes stuffed into clothes, closets, and a safe. Additionally, over $70,000 in cash was discovered in Nadine Menendez's safe deposit box, which was searched under a different warrant. Some envelopes had fingerprints or DNA from Daibes or his driver. Others were tucked inside jackets with Menendez's name on them, hanging in his closet. 

But today is the day of reckoning. Bob Menendez got sentenced to 11 years in prison and his career in public life is in the toilet of time. Boss Bob, as he is known in the Garden State, had evaded accountability for his shady schemes but his past has finally caught up to him.

Did I mention Menendez is a Democrat?

In 2015, the Obama Justice Department tried to convict him regarding his relationship with a Florida-based ophthalmologist and donor, Salomon Melgen. In return for allegedly pushing his business interests, Melgen plied him with expensive gifts. Later, the business man would be found guilty of being involved in a Medicare fraud scheme. And while Menendez was able to skate by the law, the Justice Department kept an eye on him.

In 2023, he was indicted after almost $500,000 in cash was discovered throughout his home, including a horde of gold bars. He earned the moniker “gold bar Bob” over this discovery.

Last July, a jury found him guilty on all counts.

His sentencing came hours after the judge sentenced developer Fred Daibes to seven years behind bars for bribery.

For now, Nadine Menendez hasn't been sentenced. She was charged alongside Bob, a Democrat, but her trial has been indefinitely delayed as she is undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Her trial was to start on March 18, 2025, after a previous delay. The judge stated there will be no further extensions.

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Terrorist lawyer who helped firebomb NYPD car sentenced to prison

Brooklyn, NY -- A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Colinford Mattis, a corporate lawyer who firebombed an NYPD police car during a Black Lives Matter riot in 2020 was sentenced to only a year in jail. He argued that his elite education--boarding school, Princeton University, a law degree from NYU--should make him be considered a peacekeeper, in spite of his throwing a firebomb at a police car on a public street where anything but peace was taking place.

“You’re not one of the oppressed. You’re one of the privileged,” senior Eastern District of New York Judge Brian M. Cogan told the arrogant person, in spite of the judge expressed admiration for what the 35-year-old had accomplished in his life.

This sentencing marked the climax to a two-and-a-half year legal battle along that he and his co-defendant Urooj Rahman, 33, fought and made them symbols of America's divisions and political upheavals. The case spanned the Trump and Biden administrations and there have been mixed emotions on both sides of the political spectrum.

Insofar as the Heritage Foundation is concerned, they were "terrorists." But far left New York magazine claimed that they could be seen as "civil-rights heroes, even martyrs." And The Daily Mail called them "woke lawyers." In the pages of former newspaper New York Times, they were described by a guest contributor as victims of "deeply ingrained injustices."

Yes, they were the victims, not the businesses that were torched, along with police vehicles, and people who were attacked and in some instances severely beaten. This privileged lawyer and his co-defendant were somehow the victims because their ideology somehow excuses their behavior.

The DOJ in the Trump administration tried to put them away for 45 years at minimum, but under the Biden administration, when he appeared to become president, the DOJ settled for much less. The pair ended up pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit arson last summer, and both will lose their law licenses, as well they should.

Rahman will be spending 15 months in jail for her part.

But these clowns should not give up hope. MSNBC and CNN both have warm seats that might be waiting for them in a year. In CNN's case, that seat might need a good anti-Toobin alcohol cleaning.

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Waukesha parade murderer at sentencing hearing today

He rolls his eyes as they tearfully describe how their lives were changed by him

Darrell Brooks, Jr., is soon to hear the sentence Judge Jennifer Dorow will be handing down on him, most likely by Wednesday this week. Brooks is the person who drove into the Christmas Parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin on November 21, 2021, killing 6 parade goers, including an 8-year-old child, and injuring 61 others.

As he listened to the victim statements, he rolled his eyes, at one time he pretended to pray, and patted his heart as a prop to give the illusion he cares about his victims. He looked bored being in court, but he will have a whole lifetime of boredom if he gets a life sentence, which seems likely.

As it turned out, he was found guilty on all 76 counts against him and will obviously be spending much, if not all of his life in prison.

He cannot hid his narcissism and arrogance as once again interrupted the court with his ongoing nonsense, to the point that he again had to be removed to the adjacent courtroom until he promised to keep his mouth shut.

Hopefully, Brooks will get 6 life sentences for those he killed, plus more years for the other crimes. Hopefully he will leave prison in a pine box, and hopefully this will come sooner rather than later. 

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Kansas babe who led all-babe ISIS battalion received her sentence

"Miss ISIS 2022"
(Photo: Alexandria, Virginia Sheriff's Office, Jan. 2022)

Allison Fluke-Ekren [that's all we needed, another Fluke] is the 42-year-old Kansas woman who admitted she discussed an attack on an American college and of having trained more than 100 all-women [whatever that is] fighters in an ISIS battalion in Syria. 

The former Kansas teacher faced sentencing Tuesday and was given a 20 year prison sentence for her role in Islamic jihad.

For eight years Fluke-Ekren waged violent jihad in Iraq, Syria and Libya, prosecutors said. She trained women and girls to use AK-47 rifles, grenades and for the more insane ones, suicide belts. She also commanded Khatiba Nusaybah, the all-female group of fighters trained to perpetuate the ISIS mission, and as a jihadi, she went by the name Umm Mohammed al-Amriki.

The scumwafer's lawyers tried to paint her as a victim saying she deserves a shorter sentence because of all the trauma and loss she suffered. Boo freaking hoo.

She "considered any attack that did not kill a large number of individuals to be a waste of resources," according to witness statements included in the plea papers. 

Yes, she's quite a victim.

Fluke-Ekren, born in Lawrence, Kansas, pleaded guilty in June to conspiring to support a foreign terrorist organization, the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham, also known as ISIS. Counterterrorism experts said she represented an unusual case of a woman commanding power in the traditionally male-dominated culture of Islamic jihad. Rumor even claimed she peed standing up.

Fluke-Ekren's father and grandfather were U.S. military veterans but that evidently didn't make much of an impression on her. She committed terrorist attacks during those eight years and planned mass-casualty attacks in the U.S. the prosecutors said, adding that a 20-year maximum sentence is a sissy sentence and not worthy of her crimes.

The government's filing laid out a life full of torture and violence, which they said she inflicted on her younger brother, her children and her five husbands, behavior that she allegedly took from her home to battlefields in foreign countries after she became radicalized.

In one instance, prosecutors say the defendant's son told them, "The more her children reacted to the pain, the worse the abuse would get," alleging she would put salt or chemicals in his cuts, punch him in the face and throw him to the floor. And in another instance, prosecutors allege she sexually abused her own daughter, who also testified.

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Like the Parkland shooter, Nikolas Cruz, Fluke-Ekrens is skating the death penalty and that isn't justice for their victims.

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Former physician gets 60 years in slammer: will be released when he's 131 years old

Chesapeake, VA -- A former obstetrician-gynecologist, Javaid Perwaiz, 71, had been conning women into getting hysterectomies and sterilizations so that he could get the insurance money. 

He has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for subjecting women to unnecessary medical procedures including improper sterilizations and hysterectomies over the past ten years and had been operating in Virginia since the 1980s, the Department of Justice said in a press release on the sentencing.

His crimes have taken place between 2010 and 2019 according to trial evidence, and beyond the irreversible harm he inflicted on women, he also “caused approximately $20.8 million dollars in losses to private and government health care insurers for irreversible hysterectomies and other surgeries and procedures that were not medically necessary for his patients,” the DOJ said.

Perwaiz got rich by telling his unsuspecting patients that they needed the procedures because they either had cancer or needed to prevent cancer.

“Motivated by his insatiable and reprehensible greed, Perwaiz used an arsenal of horrifying tactics to manipulate and deceive patients into undergoing invasive, unnecessary, and devastating medical procedures,” said Raj Parekh, acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. 

“These fraudulent and destructive surgeries caused irreversible damage to the victims. In many instances, the defendant shattered their ability to have children by using fear to remove organs from their bodies that he had no right to take. Despite having to endure immeasurable physical and emotional pain, the victims showed resilience, strength, and courage by speaking out and sharing their stories to hold the defendant accountable for his heinous crimes. While no prosecution can undo the lifelong trauma that Perwaiz cruelly inflicted on his patients, today’s sentence ensures that the victims and their families have the last word.”

It's this writer's belief that Perwaiz should have a few organs removed from his body, such as his testicles and the hand he used to perform the unnecessary procedures. 

Evidence presented at trial also showed that Perwaiz falsified records to convince women to induce labor early in order to ensure he would be reimbursed for the deliveries. The labors were induced ahead of the recommended gestational age, which minimizes the risk to the mother and baby, the DOJ said.

“Perwaiz also violated the 30-day waiting period Medicaid requires for elective sterilizations by submitting backdated forms to falsely make it appear as if he had complied with the waiting period. Perwaiz billed insurance hundreds of thousands of dollars for diagnostic procedures that he only pretended to perform at his office,” the DOJ added.

More than 25 former patients testified against the scumbag at his trial. 

Some explained the ongoing complications they still suffer from due to his actions. The court also received more than 60 Victim Impact Statements as well as hundreds of tips through the FBI hotline regarding the former doctor’s actions. Nurses also testified that they repeatedly informed their supervisors about Perwaiz’s actions, but apparently nothing was immediately done about it.

If you see something, say something . . . unless you're a nurse reporting a doctor for an unlawful procedure. Then just pass the freaking scalpel and shut up.

“If I as the black woman mayor, the first-ever, don’t challenge us, the collective us, to do better, to really make sure that in every institution it reflects the diversity, nuance, and texture, then shame on me,” Lightfoot continued.

“This isn’t my job. It shouldn’t be,” she wrote. “I don’t have time for it. But as with so many festering problems, it has only gotten worse with time. So here I am, like so many other Black women before me, having to call your attention to this problem.”

Lightfoot went further, taking to Twitter early Thursday morning to defend her policy in a series of posts.

“I ran to break up the status quo that was failing so many,” Lightfoot tweeted. “That isn’t just in City Hall. It’s a shame that in 2021, the City Hall press corps is overwhelmingly White in a city where more than half of the city identifies as Black, Latino, AAPI, or Native American.”

“Diversity and inclusion is imperative across all institutions including media. In order to progress we must change,” she continued. “This is exactly why I’m being intentional about prioritizing media requests from POC reporters on the occasion of the two-year anniversary of my inauguration as mayor of this great city.”

Critics blasted Lightfoot’s decision from all sides Wednesday. Beyond the journalists who noted that they were shut out by the policy limiting interviews, Lightfoot faced criticism from a Latino news organization, which refused to interview the mayor after she refused to lift the moratorium on white journalists, per Fox News.

She also faced blowback on Twitter, where racial justice advocates suggested that Lightfoot was likely using the policy to distract from her inability to handle questions of violence. “Lori Lightfoot presided over an enormous increase in homicides, almost all of them in African American or Latino communities, and she’s hoping these PR stunts get liberal America to give her a pass for failing to save people’s lives,” journalist Zaid Jilani pointed out.

Indeed, on the same day that the mayor’s office announced the policy favoring “black and brown” reporters, Lightfoot aides announced that “a compromise plan to make past police disciplinary records available to the public,” essentially turning down a request from Chicago’s racial justice activists to expand police transparency.

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Determines Who Interviews Her Based On Race, Local Reporters Claim
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Local media reporters in Chicago are alleging that Democrat Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is selecting who gets to do one-on-one interviews with her based on the race of the interviewer.

NBC 5 political reporter Mary Ann Ahern made the initial allegation on Twitter, writing: “As ⁦ @chicagosmayor ⁩ reaches her two year midway point as mayor, her spokeswoman says Lightfoot is granting 1 on 1 interviews – only to Black or Brown journalists.”

Chicago PBS news anchor Paris Schultz responded: “I was told the same thing.”


I was told the same thing.

— Paris Schutz (@paschutz)

Chicago PBS political reporter said that she could “confirm” what Ahern was alleging.


I can confirm, alderman

— Heather Cherone (@HeatherCherone) May 18, 2021

Lightfoot’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire or Fox News.

Australian political commentator Rita Panahi responded to the allegations by writing on Twitter: “More ‘anti-racist’ racism. Almost amusing how regressive race-obsession is celebrated among the Left.”


More "anti-racist" racism. Almost amusing how regressive race-obsession is celebrated among the Left. https://t.co/VtzpQyfklg

— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) May 19, 2021

“Racism in the name of wokeism is still racism,” another commentator said. Another added, “So wouldn’t that make her a racist?”

Progressive writer Zaid Jilani wrote: “Is she going to do some kinda DNA test to assure she upholds this rule?”


Is she going to do some kinda DNA test to assure she upholds this rule? https://t.co/9d7rXZTnCV

— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 19, 2021

“It is unclear when such a practice was enacted and if it only applies to local reporters, particularly after her MSNBC appearance with Stephanie Ruhle on Monday,” Fox News reported. “During her MSNBC interview, Lightfoot told Ruhle she would ‘encourage’ Chicago residents to continue wearing masks despite the new CDC guidance allowing those with the coronavirus vaccine to go without them.”

“I know for me personally, I’m going to continue to wear a mask in public and I’m going to encourage others to do so,” Lightfoot told Ruhle. “We’ve got to make sure that people are continuing to follow the public health guidance that has gotten us this far, and masks, I think, are a big and important part of that.”

Lightfoot said on Tuesday afternoon that her decision to continue to encourage people to wear masks was not based on distrust of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

“But I think their guidance last week regarding masks has people confused…We need clarification,” Lightfoot said. “We still have a long way to go to hit the critical mass (of vaccinations) or herd immunity. I don’t want people to have false confidence.”

“To say, ‘If you’re vaccinated, you don’t have to wear a mask,’ that’s great. But what about all of the other people who are out there that aren’t vaccinated?” Lightfoot added. “There’s no way to know that. So I think for the time being, most people are gonna continue to wear masks outside of their homes.”

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Determines Who Interviews Her Based On Race, Local Reporters Claim

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