To mark the first day of Sen. Bob Menendez's corruption trial, Jon Stewart
Jury selection has begun in the corruption trial of Bob Menendez, a top
Sen. Bob Menendez main defense in his latest federal corruption trial is that his wife did it taking all the bribes, he claims.
Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey faces his second, distinct bribery and corruption trial in seven years starting Monday. This new case is a complicated affair involving multiple gold bars, envelopes of cash, a Mercedes and a lot more that, prosecutors say, the powerful former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his new wife (they got married during the alleged bribery scheme) obtained in exchange for helping a halal meat monopoly, granting favors for people from...
Sen. Bob Menendez is charged with more than a dozen corrupt acts that span
Bob Menendez said his spouse and co-defendant would undergo a mastectomy following her diagnosis.
For the second time in a decade, U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez faces a corruption trial Monday with his political career and freedom on the line in a criminal case that already has forced him out of one of the most powerful posts in Congress. The 70-year-old New Jersey Democrat and his wife are accused of […]
A formerly-indicted New Jersey senator has found himself at the center of another corruption investigation, this time concerning allegations of accepting gold bars, a Mercedes-Benz and cash in exchange for political favors. Ariana Baio explains the case against Bob Menendez
Cash stuffed into boots. Envelopes of bills tucked inside jackets emblazoned with the senator's name. Gold bars. Prosecutors in the Sen. Bob Menendez bribery case on Friday released more than 100 photos of the cash and gold seized from the New Jersey Democrat's home, presenting a clearer picture of the evidence shaping his high-profile bribery trial. Menendez is charged with accepting “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in bribes in return for official government acts. The FBI said that more...
At the opening of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez’s trial, a prosecutor pointed the finger at him, calling the Democrat corrupt and telling a federal jury in New York on Wednesday that he traded his power in return for bribes of gold bars, cash and a car. Later, Menendez’s lawyer called prosecutors “dead wrong.”
Prosecutors have presented a trove of evidence in the case, including nearly $500,000 in cash and 13 gold bars investigators allegedly found at Menendez’s home in 2022.
By LARRY NEUMEISTER and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For the second time in a decade, Sen. Bob Menendez is finding his political career and freedom on the line in a federal criminal case that already has forced him out of one of the Senate’s most powerful posts. The New Jersey Democrat