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 […]
New Jersey’s chief law enforcement officer and top aide looked at each other after they left a 2019 meeting with Sen. Bob Menendez. “Whoa, that was gross,” the aide told then-New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal. That’s how Grewal on Thursday recalled a September 2019 meeting prosecutors say was Menendez’s attempt to disrupt the agency’s […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A former New Jersey attorney general testified Thursday at Sen. Bob Menendez’s bribery trial that the Democrat twice tried to discuss a pending criminal case with him, requests he considered “pretty unprecedented.” Gurbir Grewal was called as a witness by prosecutors to support their claim that Menendez tried to interfere in […]
Prosecutors in Sen. Bob Menendez’s corruption trial laid the groundwork Wednesday for some of their star witnesses to soon take the stand, including a former New Jersey attorney general who is expected to testify Thursday. First prosecutors needed jurors to understand a timeline that included a fatal December 2018 accident when Menendez’s now-wife, Nadine, crashed […]
Undercover FBI investigators took this photo of Sen. Bob Menendez pouring wine for two Egyptian officials at a May 21, 2019, dinner at Morton’s The Steakhouse in Washington, D.C. Also pictured is the senator’s wife, Nadine, to his right, and businessman Wael Hana, to his left. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of […]
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Democratic Rep. Andy Kim won his party’s nomination for a U.S. Senate seat Tuesday in New Jersey, setting up a general election contest against wealthy hotel operator Curtis Bashaw, who defeated a Trump-backed candidate for the Republican nomination. Incumbent Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez will also be on the ballot after declaring […]
On May 21, 2019, two FBI surveillance teams were sent to the Morton’s steakhouse a few blocks from the White House. They were not there looking for Sen. Bob Menendez, but then he showed up. That’s according to testimony Tuesday from an FBI investigator called as a witness in the New Jersey Democrat’s corruption trial. […]
A California man who teamed up with his brother to massacre their parents in a Los Angeles mansion in 1989 made rare public remarks Sunday when he called into a true crime conference from prison and revealed he has aspirations for freedom despite a sentence of life without parole. Joseph Menendez, who goes by his […]
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democrats and Republicans decide their parties’ standard-bearers Tuesday for the Senate amid the federal corruption trial in New York of New Jersey Democratic incumbent Sen. Bob Menendez, along with candidates for the presidency and House. Menendez, a longtime Democrat, filed on Monday to run as an independent. He’s not […]
Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, who’s currently on trial on 16 federal corruption counts, filed Monday to run for reelection as an independent, threatening to become a spoiler in a New Jersey race that Democrats would not normally fret about. The senator announced in March that he would not seek reelection as a Democrat but said […]
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat who is on trial on federal bribery charges in New York, has filed to run as an independent candidate for reelection. Menendez, 70, had said this year that he would not seek the Democratic nomination to pursue a fourth term, and on Monday […]