Chuck Schumer demands Bob Menendez step down from Senate after conviction on 16 counts of corruption
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, called on Bob Menendez to resign after a jury convicted him on all 16 charges in a federal bribery case. Prosecutors said Menendez used his powerful position as a senator to provide favors to Egypt and other clients. The charges include bribery, acting as a foreign agent, extortion, […]
Sen. Bob Menendez Found Guilty on All Counts in Federal Corruption Trial
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) was found guilty on all charges in his federal corruption trial on Tuesday. ABC News report: Federal prosecutors in New York have alleged that the New Jersey Democrat accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in the form of cash, gold bars and mortgage payments in exchange for political influence […]
Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez FOUND GUILTY on all counts in federal corruption case
A jury on Tuesday found Sen. Bob Menendez (Dynamo County, J.D.) guilty of multiple counts related to bribery and corruption charges. Jurors had been deliberating for 13 hours since Friday on the 16 counts brought against Menendez. The charges against Menendez include conspiracy, bribery, extortion, obstruction of justice and acting as a foreign agent for […]
Top moments from Bob Menendez’s bribery and corruption trial
The bribery and corruption case against Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has featured everything from gold bars to meat monopolies, silver bells to Cuban quirks, Mercedes convertibles to Egyptian camels. The trial took nine weeks. It was complex and delved into serious charges against the longtime lawmaker, his wife, two New Jersey businessmen on trial with him, […]
Sen. Bob Menendez ‘has faith’ as jurors deliberate in corruption case
He praises them. New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez said he was relying on his faith on Friday as he left a Manhattan federal courthouse, where jurors in his high-stakes bribery trial had deliberated for three hours without reaching a verdict. “I have faith in God and in the jury,” the embattled Democrat said in English […]