Bob Menendez bribery trial: Prosecutors rest; judge rejects defense request for acquittals

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Prosecutors at the bribery trial of Sen. Bob Menendez rested their case on Friday after presenting evidence for seven weeks, enabling lawyers for the Democrat and two New Jersey businessmen to begin calling their own witnesses next week to support their claims that no crimes were committed and no bribes were paid.

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., leaves federal court following the day’s proceedings in his bribery trial, Friday, June 28, 2024, in New York. Prosecutors rested on Friday after presenting evidence for seven weeks at the bribery trial of Menendez, enabling …NEW YORK —

Prosecutors say gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash found in a raid of Menendez’s home two years ago were bribes paid by three businessmen from 2018 to 2022 in return for favors that the senator, using his political power, carried out on their behalf. Menendez, 70, is on trial with two of the businessmen after a third pleaded guilty in a cooperation deal with the government and testified at the trial. Menendez’s wife, Nadine Menendez, is also charged in the case, which was unveiled last fall. Her trial has been postponed while she recovers from breast cancer surgery. All defendants have pleaded not guilty.

 

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