Author: newyork-news
A jury is resuming deliberations Monday within the bribery case introduced in opposition to Nadine Menendez after a prosecutor informed a jury that she was a “critical participant” in a five-year fraud together with her husband, former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez. The jury started contemplating the fees in opposition to the 58-year-old Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, resident in mid-afternoon on Friday in Manhattan federal courtroom. Jurors went house almost two hours later with out reaching a verdict. Bob Menendez, 71, a New Jersey Democrat, is to report back to jail in June to start an 11-year sentence. He stepped down from his Senate…
A well-liked saying in Vatican circles is that in case you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.” It implies the sacred and secretive course of is not any reputation contest or marketing campaign, however moderately the divinely impressed election of Christ’s Vicar on Earth by the princes of the church. Nonetheless, there are at all times front-runners, often known as “papabile,” who’ve at the least a few of the qualities thought of essential to be pope — very like these depicted in final 12 months’s Oscar-nominated movie “Conclave.” Any baptized Catholic male is eligible, although solely cardinals have…