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Adam Fee, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the same office that is prosecuting Menendez, said during closing arguments on Tuesday that the government is “asking you to ignore things that don’t fit their theory.”
He is also accused of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars, luxury convertible, furniture, and 13 gold bars in exchange for steering aid to Menendez has been on trial for the past eight weeks. “This is Nadine telling her husband in black and white, ‘I’ve got the gold, I’m selling the gold, I’m going to pay off my mortgage,'” Fee said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Monteleoni walked jurors through 18 charges in exhaustive detail, going over videos, phone messages, dozens of text messages, photos, and witness testimony. “It all boils down to a classic case of corruption on a massive scale,” Monteleoni said.
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