Gold Bar Bob, Isabel Vincent
Gold Bar Bob, Isabel Vincent
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Gold Bar Bob
The Downfall of the Most Corrupt US Senator

Author: Isabel Vincent, Thomas Jason Anderson

Narrator: Wendy Tremont King

Unabridged: 9 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/14/2025


Synopsis

Power corrupts, and in the case of New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez, power—and boatloads of money—corrupted absolutely and led to the downfall of the Democratic Party.

Senator Bob Menendez stands alone as the most corrupt US Senator in history. After corruption charges were dropped in a 2017 mistrial, he may have considered himself invincible. But when the Feds raided his home in June 2022, they found a gifted Mercedes Benz, more than $600,000 in cash, and thirteen gold bars stuffed in envelopes, clothes, and closets. It was an outrageous haul for a man who styled himself as a fierce anti-corruption crusader, an ambitious Democrat who overthrew his mob-connected predecessor and rose through the ranks to the House of Representatives and the Senate to serve as the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

In exchange for personal and campaign contributions, Bob aided others to sway criminal prosecutions, defraud millions from Medicare, secure questionable visas, acquire government contracts and financial investments, obtain millions in firearms, and weaken Homeland Security. While Menendez was convicted of sixteen felony counts—including bribery, extortion, fraud, acting as a foreign agent, obstruction of justice, and several counts of conspiracy—there are still many secrets to unveil. After nearly a half-century political career, the lies will finally be unraveled about his family’s origins, how his second wife may be part of his crimes, and how much he attempted to get away with.

About Isabel Vincent

Isabel Vincent is an investigative reporter for the New York Post. Previously, she was a foreign correspondent based in Rio de Janeiro and before that she covered the conflicts that led to the war in Kosovo. Her work has appeared in magazines and newspapers all over the world, including the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, L'Officiel, and Time. She is the author of four books: Gilded Lily: Lily Safra: The Making of One of the World's Wealthiest Widows; Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas; Hitler's Silent Partners: Swiss Banks, Nazi Gold and the Pursuit of Justice; and See No Evil: The Strange Case of Christine Lamont and David Spencer. The recipient of numerous journalism honors, including the Canadian Association of Journalist's Award for Excellence in Investigative Journalism, she has been a journalism fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto. Vincent won the National Jewish Book Award in Canada for Bodies and Souls and the Yad Vashem Award for Holocaust History for Hitler's Silent Partners. She grew up in Toronto and speaks French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Today, she lives in New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Thomas on December 14, 2025

I won this on Goodreads and am glad I did. I had a personal interest in this story as I lived in New Jersey from 1968 to 1975-during the same period of the early parts of the Bob Menendez saga. This is an American success story of a smart kid of Cuban immigrants who recognized early the "right peopl......more

Goodreads review by Steve on November 15, 2025

I received this book in return for a review. Gold Bar Bob follows the rise and fall of a prominent New Jersey senator. Beginning with his family's origin in Cuba, their immigration to the USA after the Cuban Revolution, his high school ambitions, rise to local Union City, NJ mayor and then NJ state h......more

Goodreads review by Relena_reads on November 22, 2025

I was very interested in this book, but there's a difference between being exhaustive and being exhausting, and the level of detail here fell toward the latter. The title implies that this will focus mostly on Menendez's downfall, but instead we start at the very, very beginning and wend our way thr......more

Goodreads review by LARRY FLICK on November 23, 2025

Good read, sometimes too much detail. and repetitive info......more