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Feds blast ‘Gold Bar Bob’ Menendez’s blame-his-wife defense at bribery trial

Federal prosecutors argued Tuesday that Sen. Bob Menendez’s brazen plan to pin the blame for his far-reaching bribery scheme on his wife was simply a “desperate” excuse to avoid his own responsibility. “There’s no way she could have fooled him into not knowing what she was doing,” prosecutor Paul Monteleone told jurors in Manhattan federal […]