{"id":158165,"date":"2024-05-28T17:45:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T17:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=158165"},"modified":"2024-05-28T17:45:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T17:45:13","slug":"bob-menendez-is-blowing-campaign-gold-on-lawyers-and-pricey-steaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=158165","title":{"rendered":"Bob Menendez Is Blowing Campaign Gold on Lawyers\u2014and Pricey Steaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway\/The Daily Beast\/Reuters\/GettyFighting to keep himself out of prison has cost Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) a lot\u2014but not his appetite, campaign finance records show.The embattled Democrat, now on trial for allegations he accepted gold bars and envelopes of cash from New Jersey businessmen in exchange for favors for them and their patrons in Egypt and Qatar&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/bob-menendez-is-blowing-campaign-gold-on-lawyersand-pricey-steaks\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway\/The Daily Beast\/Reuters\/GettyFighting to keep himself out of prison has cost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qtr"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/158165-bob-menendez-is-blowing-campaign-gold-on-lawyers-and-pricey-steaks.jpg",1480,833,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/158165-bob-menendez-is-blowing-campaign-gold-on-lawyers-and-pricey-steaks-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/158165-bob-menendez-is-blowing-campaign-gold-on-lawyers-and-pricey-steaks-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/158165-bob-menendez-is-blowing-campaign-gold-on-lawyers-and-pricey-steaks-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/158165-bob-menendez-is-blowing-campaign-gold-on-lawyers-and-pricey-steaks-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/158165-bob-menendez-is-blowing-campaign-gold-on-lawyers-and-pricey-steaks.jpg",1480,833,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/158165-bob-menendez-is-blowing-campaign-gold-on-lawyers-and-pricey-steaks.jpg",1480,833,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/158165-bob-menendez-is-blowing-campaign-gold-on-lawyers-and-pricey-steaks-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/158165-bob-menendez-is-blowing-campaign-gold-on-lawyers-and-pricey-steaks-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/158165-bob-menendez-is-blowing-campaign-gold-on-lawyers-and-pricey-steaks-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=29\" rel=\"category\">Qatar<\/a>","tag_info":"Qatar","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/158166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}