Judge Sidney H. Stein said jurors in Sen. Bob Menendez's corruption trial were trapped in an elevator for several minutes during what was supposed to be a 10-minute late-afternoon break that lasted almost a half hourThe New York trial of Sen. Bob Menendez grinded to a weeklong break after Manhattan federal court jurors were treated to a brick-by-brick build of the prosecution’s bribery case before getting stuck in an elevator.
The Democrat and two New Jersey businessmen he is standing trial with have pleaded not guilty. Nothing in the day's testimony was of the blockbuster variety before jurors got stuck in an elevator for several minutes late in the day. The elevator breakdown came as jurors were shuttled between floors to an assembly room because carpeting in their usual assembly room just outside the courtroom was found to be soaked on Monday after somebody left sink faucets on over the weekend. As jurors left for the day, Stein humorously warned them: “Don't all get into one elevator.
Among the witnesses Tuesday was a man who worked for the State Department during the years when prosecutors say Menendez used his powerful post as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to do favors for Egypt so he could keep the flow of bribes on track.
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