Opening statements get under way in Bob ‘Gold Bar’ Menendez’s bribery trial
The corruption and bribery trial of embattled New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez officially got under on Wednesday afternoon with opening statements in the case.
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N.J.'s top federal prosecutor testifies for government at Sen. Bob Menendez's bribery trial
NEW YORK — New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor testified Wednesday at Sen. Bob Menendez's bribery trial that the Democrat sought to discuss the prosecution of a New Jersey real estate developer with him before recommending him to the post after Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.
New Jersey's top federal prosecutor testifies for government in Sen. Bob Menendez prosecution
New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor testified Wednesday at Sen. Bob Menendez 's bribery trial that the Democrat sought to discuss the prosecution of a New Jersey real estate developer with him before recommending him to the post after Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.
New Jersey businessman tells jury that bribes paid off with Sen. Bob Menendez
NEW YORK (AP) — A New Jersey businessman who prosecutors say bribed Sen. Bob Menendez testified Monday that the Democrat told him in summer 2019 that he’d look into a state criminal probe threatening his business and later assured him there was no threat and boasted about saving him.
Bob Menendez took Mercedes-Benz as bribe, New Jersey businessman testifies
New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez interfered in a criminal investigation as a favor to a businessman who helped the senator’s then-girlfriend buy a new Mercedes-Benz convertible worth more than $60,000, a jury was told.
New Jersey businessman admits to bribing Sen. Bob Menendez with a Mercedes-Benz
A New Jersey businessman testified on Friday that he bribed Sen. Bob Menendez, telling a jury in the New Jersey Democrat's bribery trial that he gave the lawmaker's wife a Mercedes in exchange for his influence.
Sen. Bob Menendez's wife, who faces bribery charges with him, has breast cancer
Nadine Menendez, the wife of Sen. Bob Menendez who is accused alongside her husband of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, has stage 3 breast cancer, the senator announced on Thursday.
Sen. Menendez bribery trial starts with judge scolding lawyers on 'gamesmanship'
A judge on Monday admonished attorneys about playing legal games shortly after they convened for the start of the federal bribery trial of Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. "There's been too much gamesmanship here," Judge Sidney Stein told prosecutors and defense attorneys before jury selection began for the trial in federal court in Manhattan. "Everybody has to operate in good faith here," Stein said, adding, "I'm not sure I've seen that." Menendez, 70, wearing a dark suit and striped red tie with his gold senator's pin on his lapel, listened silently in the courtroom. Two of his co-defendants, New Jers
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