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 […]
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 […]
Bob Menendez lawyer tells jurors there is no direct evidence linking senator to bribes
Sen. Bob Menendez’s (D-NJ) defense attorney tried to rip a hole in the government’s case against the senator, telling jurors there was no direct evidence tying him to allegations of bribery and corruption. Adam Fee, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the same office that is prosecuting Menendez, said during closing arguments on Tuesday that the government is “asking […]