(Imagine this in Shirley Bassey's voice)
Old Swinger,He's the man, the man with the "bribe me" touch,a grifter's touch,Such a U.S. Code 18 swinger,Beckons you to forget his conflicts of 'in'trst,and don't convict!
I'll say this for my least-favorite corrupt public official: his many money-grubbing schemes and close escapes from the law do make for colorful reading.
The New York Post has the latest installment here, in a story that strings together a fortune in gold bars, a New Jersey IHOP, a proposal in front of the Taj Mahal, a deadlocked jury, an imprisoned Medicare swindler, the overturning of a consular officer's denial of visas for a political contributor's personal 36DD immigrant program, and a front company set up by a politician's wife who was facing foreclosure before becoming suddenly and inexplicably rich.
I mean, it's all so ludicrous that you could almost be tempted to give the crook a pass in return for his giving us so much humor. But then, you remember he's a U.S. Senator and, really, it's not a laughing matter.
2 comments:
Truly this guy is evergreen!
Good analogy. He's perennially corrupt and, in his own way, kind of celebratory.
Only a key Democrat could get away clean with abusing his position as Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to badger a U.S. Ambassador into reversing a consular officer's denial of visa requests for a financial contributors foreign girlfriends. Menendez did that, as was documented during his first - deadlocked - trial. And that was just one of the public corruption charges against him.
But does that detract in any way from the esteem he enjoys in Washington? No way!
At this point, the plot point in Godfather 2 where a senator was blackmailed after being caught with a dead prostitute strikes me as unbelievable. Menendez, like Ted Kennedy before him, would just brazen his way of of that one.
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