NEW YORK (AP) — The defense for Sen. Bob Menendez rested Wednesday without the New Jersey Democrat testifying at his New York bribery trial. Lawyers for Menendez called several witnesses over two days in an effort to counter seven weeks of testimony and hundreds of exhibits and communications introduced by Manhattan federal prosecutors. Menendez, 70, […]
NEW YORK — On Election Day 2018, Bob Menendez won a third term in the Senate after his political career had been wounded at the start of his first corruption trial a year earlier. That trial ended in a hung jury, and federal prosecutors dismissed the case, so voters in blue New Jersey decided to […]
NEW YORK — Even after 18 years in the Senate and an ethics investigation into his finances, Bob Menendez couldn’t seem to figure out his chamber’s disclosure forms, defense attorneys in his bribery trial suggested Thursday. They also suggested his age played a role in how he filled out forms where he didn’t initially disclose […]
NEW YORK — One of Sen. Bob Menendez’s former top aides testified Tuesday that the senator was uniquely focused on a criminal case against a real estate developer now accused of bribing him. Michael Soliman, a key political adviser to the senator for over a decade, said the only criminal case Menendez ever asked him […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors at the trial of Sen. Bob Menendez used the testimony of his former campaign manager on Tuesday to try to link alleged bribes of the Democrat to the appointment of New Jersey’s top prosecutor three years ago. Michael Soliman, a former top Menendez political adviser, testified immediately after New Jersey’s […]
Before he was the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, Philip Sellinger was in Sen. Bob Menendez’s inner circle. They dined together, they played golf together with their sons, and their wives texted. Sellinger was one of the 70 or so guests at the senator’s pandemic-era wedding. When Joe Biden, a fellow Democrat, got to the […]
NEW YORK — Defense attorneys spent all day Tuesday working to undermine one of federal prosecutors’ star witnesses in their corruption case again Sen. Bob Menendez. The witness, Jose Uribe, a New Jersey trucking and insurance industry figure who pleaded guilty earlier this year to bribing the senator and his wife, was repeatedly asked about […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The prosecution’s prized turncoat witness at the bribery trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez was politely combative Tuesday as defense lawyers tried to poke holes in his testimony and portray him as a habitual liar. Jose Uribe spent a third day on the witness stand, a day after telling the jury […]
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. At the time, Jose Uribe said […]
During an August 2019 meeting at an Italian restaurant in North Jersey, Sen. Bob Menendez appeared to know the details of a prosecution and an investigation he and his wife are alleged to have taken bribes to disrupt, the man who has pleaded guilty to bribing them testified Monday. Jose Uribe, a trucking and insurance […]
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. Jose Uribe, who pleaded guilty in March and is cooperating with prosecutors, was asked on the witness stand whom […]
Jose Uribe, a New Jersey business person cooperating with federal authorities in the corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez, said Friday that he bribed the senator and his now-wife to “stop and kill” an investigation that was circling his insurance business. By early 2018, the state attorney general’s office had indicted the head of one […]