The Supreme Court has narrowed the legal definition of corruption, with political figures in New York and elsewhere having their convictions overturned as a result. Related Posts What Sam Bankman-Fried’s Conviction Says About the Fight Against Financial Fraud The Justice Department has been losing ground in the fight against financial fraud for years. Robert Hadden’s…
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News Verdict reached in Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez’s federal corruption trial
The jury reached a verdict Tuesday in the federal corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and two of his business associates, Fred Daibes and Wael Hana, after a grueling nine-week complex trial in Manhattan. Menendez pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he accepted an array of bribes in exchange for helping foreign governments….
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News Why Menendez’s Meals With Egyptian Officials Worry Security Experts
The bribery case against Senator Robert Menendez has revealed how foreign intelligence officials cultivated casual access to one of the most powerful Democrats in Washington. Related Posts Trump Campaign Officials Try to Play Down Contentious 2025 Plans Two top officials on former President Donald J. Trump’s 2024 campaign on Monday sought to distance his campaign…
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News ‘It’s a Cuban Thing’: Menendez’s Sister Says Their Parents Also Hid Cash
Senator Robert Menendez’s sister testified on Monday about their parents’ journey from Cuba and the family’s practice of storing cash at home, offering justification for a habit he has said explains at least some of the roughly $480,000 F.B.I. agents seized during a search of his New Jersey home. The sister, Caridad Gonzalez, was 8…
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News Wife’s Ex-Boyfriend and Fear of Poverty at Center of Menendez’s Defense
Senator Robert Menendez’s lawyers have cast him as a man who was duped by his dazzling wife, Nadine Menendez, and unaware of the gold bars and cash she kept in her locked bedroom closet — or the deals she made to get them. Now, as they prepare to rebut claims that the senator was at…
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News New Jersey businessman testifies he promised up to $250,000 in bribes for Sen. Bob Menendez’s help
A New Jersey businessman took his star turn on the witness stand in the bribery case against Sen. Bob Menendez on Friday, telling a jury he believed he had a $200,000-to-$250,000 deal in 2018 for the Democrat to pressure the New Jersey attorney general’s office to stop investigating his friends and family. Jose Uribe testified…
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News Bob Menendez’s son survives House primary challenge despite dad’s criminal charges
Embattled Sen. Bob Menendez’s son, Rep. Rob Menendez, D-N.J., has survived a primary challenge despite the criminal indictments putting his father’s political future in peril. Menendez’s opponent was Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla, who sought to tie the first-term Democrat to his father and denounced the pair as a “political machine” running Garden State politics. “It’s…
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News Senator Menendez’s Wife Is Being Treated for Breast Cancer
Nadine Menendez, the wife of Senator Robert Menendez, is being treated for breast cancer and will undergo a mastectomy, her husband revealed on Thursday. Mr. Menendez announced his wife’s cancer diagnosis in a statement released while he was in Federal District Court in Manhattan, where he is on trial on charges that he accepted hundreds…
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News Defense Blames Senator Menendez’s Wife as Bribery Trial Starts
A lawyer for Senator Robert Menendez on Wednesday laid blame for the bribery charges the senator faces squarely on his wife — a woman he found “dazzling” but who, his lawyer said, hid her past dire finances and the source of her newfound income from her powerful husband. She had kept him in the dark…
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News Opening Statements in Senator Menendez’s Corruption Trial: 5 Takeaways
The corruption trial of Senator Robert Menendez, a powerful New Jersey Democrat, spun into motion in Manhattan on Wednesday, with combative opening statements and an extraordinary claim by the defense. Speaking directly to the jury, a U.S. prosecutor asserted that Mr. Menendez “put his power up for sale,” trading favors involving Egypt and New Jersey…
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