WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Embattled U.S. Democratic Senator Bob Menendez said on Thursday he would not run for reelection as a Democrat, but suggested he could run as an independent. Prosecutors have charged Menendez with taking bribes from New Jersey businessmen to impede law enforcement probes into them, illegally acting as an agent of the Egyptian […]
Sen. Bob Menendez, the New Jersey Democrat facing more than a dozen charges over an alleged years-long corruption scheme, announced Thursday he will notseek reelection in November but may still run as an independent. Menendez made the announcement in a video released Thursday. His announcement comes a few months ahead of the state’s primary on […]
Sen. Bob Menendez — the New Jersey Democrat who got his start 50 years ago as an anti-corruption mayor but is now charged with 16 federal counts and accusations of being a foreign agent — will not run for reelection as a Democrat this year, he said Thursday. But the state’s senior senator is still […]
WASHINGTON — Indicted Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., is considering running for re-election in November as an independent, two sources who spoke with him directly tell NBC News. Menendez, who along with his wife, Nadine Menendez, is facing 18 federal counts and is charged with taking bribes, has not yet publicly said if he would run again […]
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife pleaded not guilty on Monday to new obstruction of justice charges recently added to a broad corruption indictment threatening the Democrat’s re-election chances. “Once again, not guilty your honor,” Menendez responded after Judge Sidney H. Stein asked him to enter a plea at a […]
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez pleaded not guilty Monday to obstruction charges contained in a new federal indictment filed in Manhattan that added to the bribery and corruption charges he already faced. “Once again not guilty your honor,” Menendez said. Menendez came to court alongside his wife, Nadine, who also pleaded not guilty to the […]
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., was hit Tuesday with charges alleging that he and his wife conspired to obstruct justice in the bribery case against them. The superseding indictment against Menendez and his wife, Nadine, brings the total number of federal charges facing the once-powerful head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to 18. The new […]
NEW YORK (AP) — New obstruction of justice crimes were added Tuesday to charges against Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife that allege they accepted gold bars, cash and a luxury car in return for favors the senator carried out to assist three businessmen. The new charges were in a rewritten indictment returned against the […]
Federal prosecutors have alleged that gold bars linked to a search of Sen. Bob Menendez’s residence were payments to Menendez, D-N.J., and his wife in a wide-ranging bribery scheme. Menendez and his wife, Nadine, have not commented publicly on the origin of the gold bars, though Menendez said in January that “there is no evidence […]
Congressman Andy Kim won the Democratic party endorsement for U.S. Senate over first lady Tammy Murphy at the Monmouth County Democratic convention in Long Branch on Saturday. Hundreds turned out to cast their ballots for Kim, Murphy or activist Patricia Campos-Medina at the state’s first convention in what will likely be a contentious battle leading […]
Federal prosecutors cited previously undisclosed recordings from a confidential informant in a new filing that fires back at an effort by Sen. Bob Menendez‘s attorneys to dismiss the indictment accusing him of accepting bribes from a foreign government and conspiring to act as a foreign agent. In a 196-page filing, prosecutors referred to the existence […]
Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez is burning through cash while defending himself against corruption charges. New Jersey’s senior senator raised just shy of $16,000 in the last three months of 2023 — and refunded all of it, according to Federal Election Commission records released Wednesday. He was indicted on Sept. 22, about a week before the […]