{"id":764,"date":"2024-03-19T16:03:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T16:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/?p=764"},"modified":"2024-03-19T16:03:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T16:03:58","slug":"democracy-nowsen-bob-menendez-indicted-in-case-revealing-how-egypt-tried-to-keep-u-s-military-aid-flowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/democracy-nowsen-bob-menendez-indicted-in-case-revealing-how-egypt-tried-to-keep-u-s-military-aid-flowing\/","title":{"rendered":"(Democracy Now)Sen. Bob Menendez Indicted in Case Revealing How Egypt Tried to Keep U.S. Military Aid Flowing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Friday, Democratic Senator Bob Menendez and his wife were accused by federal prosecutors of accepting bribes in exchange for using his position to increase U.S. assistance to Egypt and to do favors for three New Jersey businessmen, including Wael Hana, an Egyptian American\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>who ran a lucrative business certifying halal meat exports. \u201cEgypt is a major meat importer,\u201d says Lina Attalah, publisher of the independent Cairo-based news website\u00a0<em>Mada Masr<\/em>\u00a0that investigated the monopolization of halal certification in 2019. \u201cWhat was straightforward financial corruption had this major political tentacle that affects bilateral relations to a great extent.\u201d Menendez has stepped down as head of the Senate\u2019s Foreign Relations Committee, but as he faces growing pressure to resign from his role as senator, New Jersey-based reporter Bob Hennelly says, the state\u2019s political establishment that enabled him for years now appears ready to let him fend for himself. Democrats \u201creally can\u2019t afford to have Bob Menendez hanging around,\u201d says Hennelly, who reports that Menendez has faced serious corruption charges in the past but retained his Senate seat. \u201cThis is what he does.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Democratic Senator Bob Menendez and his wife were accused by federal prosecutors of accepting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}