At Sen. Bob Menendez's bribery trial, prosecutors highlight NJ politician's wife's desperate finances

Prosecutors at Sen. Bob Menendez's bribery trial have showed jurors hundreds of texts, emails and phone calls that show his girlfriend-turned-wife's desperate financial situation before New Jersey businessmen came to the rescue.

Prosecutors elicited the evidence through the testimony of an FBI agent for a second day Wednesday as they sought to show that Menendez, 70, conspired with three businessmen and his wife, Nadine Menendez, 57, in a bribery scheme that enriched the couple with gold bars, hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and a luxury car.The Menendezes and two of the businessmen have pleaded not guilty, while the third pleaded guilty and is scheduled to testify.

Prosecutors say the trajectory of the relationship coincided with a bribery scheme that led the senator to help one businessman and codefendant, Wael Hana, win an exclusive contract with Egypt to certify all meat exported there from the United States as meeting religious requirements, while aiding two other businessmen financially and by helping them obtain favorable results with criminal cases in New Jersey.

Defense lawyers say Menendez did nothing outside the bounds of what politicians typically do for constituents. The 13 gold bars found in a 2022 FBI raid on the home belonged to Nadine Menendez, they say, and the reason there was $480,000 in cash stuffed in jackets, boxes and a safe was because the senator was traumatized by the loss of his family's fortune before he was born.

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