From prison, Lyle Menendez spoke over the phone to an audience at CrimeCon in Nashville California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP Lyle Menendez Lyle Menendez’s fate is in the hands of the court, which is weighing a petition filed last year that could potentially free him and his brother, Erik. For now though, […]
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., will file Monday to run for re-election to the Senate as an independent, according to two sources with direct knowledge of his plans. NBC News had previously reported that the three-term senator had gathered enough signatures to run as an independent for another term in the Senate as he […]
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) is filing to run for reelection as an independent in the midst of his federal corruption trial, the New Jersey Globe reported Monday. Menendez is reportedly sending a friend to deliver his petitions to the New Jersey Division of Elections. He can’t go himself because he’s on day 12 of his […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A former top U.S. agricultural official cast Sen. Bob Menendez as a villain at his bribery trial Friday, saying he tried to stop him from disrupting an unusual sudden monopoly that developed five years ago over the certification of meat exported to Egypt. A Manhattan federal court jury heard the official, […]
In any other year, the trial of a United States senator accused of aiding a foreign government would be the trial of the year or maybe even the decade. But 2024 is not any other year and Sen. Bob Menendez‘s federal corruption trial isn’t even the trial of the month. It began last week in […]
The trial of Sen. Robert Menendez grinded to a weeklong break Tuesday after federal court jurors who were treated to a brick-by-brick build of the prosecution’s bribery case got stuck in an elevator a day after they were forced from their usual assembly room because of flooding. Judge Sidney H. Stein said jurors were trapped […]
An American agriculture official in Cairo notified the FBI soon after Egypt granted a monopoly to a New Jersey company alleged to have been involved in bribing Sen. Bob Menendez, the official testified on Friday. The USDA official, Bret Tate, walked federal prosecutors and jurors through what he called his unusual introduction to the head […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Bob Menendez said Thursday that his wife will undergo a mastectomy after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, a revelation made just as the first evidence — pictures of 13 gold bars and over $480,000 in cash seized from the couple’s home — was shown to jurors at his New […]
Nadine Menendez, a defendant in a sweeping corruption trial alongside her husband Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), has breast cancer and will be undergoing a mastectomy as treatment, her husband revealed on Thursday. The senator announced his wife’s cancer diagnosis in a statement from the courtroom where his trial on corruption and bribery charges began this […]
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 14: U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) arrives for trial at Manhattan Federal Court on May 14, 2024 in New York City. Menendez and his wife are accused of extortion, obstruction of justice, and accepting bribes to perform favors for businessmen with connections to Egypt and Qatar after gold bars […]
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., abused his position as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to “put greed first,” a federal prosecutor told jurors Wednesday during opening statements in the senator’s bribery trial. Asst. U.S. Attorney Lara Pomerantz told the panel of 12 jurors and six alternates in New York that the senior senator from […]
NEW YORK — The sitting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey and a former state attorney general are among the witnesses expected in the corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday. The group of expected witnesses will be part of the evidence federal prosecutors promised in court would tie New Jersey’s senior […]