Scandal

Bloomberg News reports: US Senator Bob Menendez is prepared to blame his wife at his bribery trial for withholding information from him about gifts they allegedly accepted from businessmen seeking favors, a newly unsealed court document shows. The revelation came Tuesday in a portion of a March court filing in which lawyers for the New Jersey Democrat asked a US …

The Denver Westword reports: Donning an all-black suit and appearing by himself, Tyler Boebert showed up in Garfield County Court today, April 11, looking extra spiffy as he was read charges and the punishments he’s facing in connection to car break-ins and property thefts he allegedly committed in Rifle earlier this year. Despite the spiffiness, Representative Lauren Boebert’s eldest son …

InDepthNH.org reports: Republican Rep. Jon Stone’s New Hampshire law enforcement career ended when he threatened to kill fellow police officers in a shooting spree, and murder his chief after raping the chief’s wife and children, all while he was already under scrutiny for his inappropriate relationship with a teen girl, according to the internal investigation reports finally released this week. …

The Columbus Dispatch reports: Former Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Chairman Sam Randazzo, who was facing criminal charges over a bribery scandal, has died by suicide. A spokesman for the Franklin County Coroner said Randazzo was found shortly before noon Tuesday in a Columbus warehouse that he owned. Randazzo, 74, of Columbus, was recently accused of accepting $4.3 million from …

The New York Times reports: Federal authorities investigating Mayor Eric Adams’s campaign fund-raising have been examining valuable flight upgrades they believe he received from Turkish Airlines that elevated him to its highest class of seats available on international trips, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The scrutiny is part of a broad corruption inquiry that has already led …

CBS News reports: Indicted Sen. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, announced Thursday that he won’t run in the Democratic primary as he faces allegations he traded his political influence for money, but said he could seek reelection as an independent if he’s exonerated. “I will not file for the Democratic primary this June. I am hopeful that my exoneration …

The Florida Trident reports: Former Florida GOP chairman Christian Ziegler and his wife Bridget Ziegler, a Sarasota School Board Member and cofounder of the conservative group Moms for Liberty, have filed a lawsuit seeking to bar the release of records involved in the husband’s criminal rape investigation. The once powerful Republican power couple sued the City of Sarasota and State …

NBC News reports: Indicted Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., is considering running for re-election in November as an independent, two sources who spoke with him directly tell NBC News. Menendez, who along with his wife Nadine Menendez is facing 18 federal counts and is alleged to have accepted bribes, has not yet publicly said if he would run again this year. …

The Denver Westword reports: A temporary truce has been called between Representative Lauren Boebert and her ex-husband, Jayson, with the congresswoman ending her attempt for a restraining order against him in Garfield County Court on Monday, March 11. “Jayson and I have come to some pretty strict agreements, and hopefully those are followed and we don’t have to pursue another …

Reuters reports: Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a Polish bishop for negligence in handling cases of sexual abuse committed by some clergy against minors, his representatives in the country said on Saturday. Andrzej Dziuba [photo], a bishop in Lowicz, had not informed law enforcement authorities about the case of a priest from his diocese who abused a 14-year-old …

The New York Post reports: Embattled New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez will not run for re-election in November, although he still refuses to hand in his resignation, The Post has learned. “He will not be running,” a source close to the 70-year-old three-term senator told The Post. Menendez resigned his powerful position as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations …

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports: The State Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday it will not charge former Florida Republican Party chairman Christian Ziegler with video voyeurism in connection with an alleged rape that authorities also declined to prosecute. Three assistants in State Attorney Ed Brodsky’s office explained the decision in a memo released Wednesday morning. The memo capped a protected investigation launched …

The Associated Press reports: On Monday, North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley said about 2,000 state emails of his late predecessor, Wayne Stenehjem, were recovered in a backup from Stenehjem’s personal cellphone. They were found as investigators were preparing for the trial of former state Sen. Ray Holmberg, a Republican. Holmberg, 80, of Grand Forks, is charged with traveling to …

“Being a father in today’s challenging world can be a heavy task. With the constant bombardment of information and influences from all angles, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and uncertain about the best way to guide your children. “The challenges we have experienced, especially in the last few years, with schools being shut down, social shut downs, and the depression …

Even more Beetleboob news today from Westword: The felony charges that Representative Lauren Boebert’s eighteen-year-old son, Tyler, got hit with on Tuesday, February 27, stem from a series of car thefts in Rifle, where he and some underage friends robbed several people, including a woman with a brain tumor who said she had just $75 “left to her name,” according …

The Denver Post reports: In the surveillance video, Tyler Boebert was wearing a Shooters Bar and Grill hoodie while he and a group of three juveniles used a stolen credit card to buy food from Love’s in the early hours of Feb. 20, including tacos and “rollerbites,” according to the affidavit. The stolen cards were used to buy diesel and …

The Daily Beast reports: Jayson Boebert, the ex-husband of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), voiced support for his son on Wednesday after news broke that the 18 year-old is facing 22 criminal charges for a series of alleged thefts and vehicle break-ins. “I know my son is a good-hearted child and still has his whole life ahead of him,” the father …

The Denver Post reports: In a statement provided by her campaign for reelection, Lauren Boebert said her son, an adult and father, will “take responsibility for his actions” and “should be held accountable for poor decisions just like any other citizen.” “I love my son Tyler, who has been through some very difficult, public challenges for a young man and …

The Daily Beast reports: On Wednesday, the opening day for CPAC 2024, the Alexandria City Courthouse posted a batch of eye-popping new filings in the sexual battery and defamation lawsuit against Matt Schlapp — including a subpoena to a CPAC official alleged to have overseen document destruction days after the accusations were first publicly reported. Schlapp was on notice at …

The Daily Beast reports: When ABC News reported on Wednesday that the House Ethics Committee had acquired text messages between a young woman involved in the sex trafficking investigation and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), a Gaetz spokesperson told ABC that the congressman “does not know anything about the woman you’re referencing.” That seems extraordinarily unlikely. The Daily Beast can now …