The chairman of the Arizona GOP resigned Wednesday after the release of an audiotape on which he offered Kari Lake, a top Trump ally and a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Arizona, lucrative job opportunities to take a two-year pause from politics. “He’s got to resign. We can’t have someone who is corrupt […]
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and his wife on Monday asked a judge to allow them to face separate trials in the bribery case against them. Menendez and his wife, Nadine Menendez, were charged in September with allegedly accepting “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in exchange for the use of the senator’s influence to enrich three […]
Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife are seeking separate trials on bribery charges they each face in a New York court. The New Jersey Democrat and his wife, Nadine, were each charged in the fall with aiding three New Jersey businessmen in return for cash, gold bars and a luxury car. The couple and the […]
Sen. Bob Menendez denied the allegations against him on Tuesday on the floor of the U.S. Senate, saying he intends to “prove my innocence” in what the Justice Department has called a years-long bribery scheme. “I’m innocent and I intend to prove my innocence,” Menendez said. “Not just for me, but for the precedent this […]
FILE – Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., departs the Senate floor in the Capitol, Sept. 28, 2023, in Washington. A federal judge has rejected Menendez’s request to delay his bribery trial by two months. The order Thursday, Dec. 28, by Judge Sidney H. Stein leaves in place a May 5 trial date for the Democrat, who […]
Vsevolod Kniaziev, the former head of Ukraine’s Supreme Court, was found guilty by a court in Kyiv of illegally accepting a gift after it was revealed he was renting an apartment in an elite neighborhood of Kyiv for Hr 1,000 ($26) a month, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) reported on Dec. 27. Kniaziev […]
NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors on Tuesday urged a judge to reject Sen. Bob Menendez’s request to delay his bribery trial scheduled for next spring by two months, until July. Prosecutors argued against the postponement a week after defense lawyers offered multiple reasons why they say a trial of the New Jersey Democrat and co-defendants, […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Tuesday urged a judge to reject U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez’s request to delay his bribery trial scheduled for next spring by two months, until July. Prosecutors argued against the postponement a week after defense lawyers offered multiple reasons why they say a trial of the Democrat and codefendants, […]
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Deposition testimony from billionaire Jimmy Haslam supports claims by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathway that Haslam tried to bribe employees at the Pilot truck stop chain amid a dispute with Berkshire over the future of the company, a Berkshire attorney told a judge Thursday. In a deposition Tuesday, Haslam denied offering a […]