Federal prosecutors in Manhattan on Tuesday indicted Sen. Bob Menendez as soon as once more, accusing the New Jersey lawmaker of getting his former lawyer “make false and deceptive statements” to investigators in a years-long corruption probe.
The newest indictment says that in December 2022, Menendez wrote checks to businesspeople to repay automotive and private loans. Prosecutors mentioned in courtroom papers that the couple “wrote checks and letters falsely characterizing the return of bribe cash…in an effort to intervene with an investigation.”
The newest expenses in opposition to Menendez come a day after the decide overseeing his case denied his effort to have proof in opposition to him, together with money and gold bars, suppressed.
The senior senator from New Jersey and his spouse, Nadine Arslanian Menendez, are accused of accepting bribes over a number of years. They’ve pleaded not responsible.
However one of many three businesspeople who have been charged within the corruption scheme, Jose Uribe, reversed his plea final week and is cooperating with authorities.
