A prosecutor accused Sen. Bob Menendez of putting his power up for sale to benefit three New Jersey businessmen who bribed him with gold, cash and a luxury car.
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Minutes earlier, Monteleoni urged the Manhattan federal court jury to follow a trail of hundreds of emails and text messages between the businessmen and Menendez and his wife to see the link between the businessmen and the bribe proceeds found in an FBI raid on the Menendez residence in June 2022. He added that Monteleoni had spent “two hours telling jurors about what they believe conversations should be that they never heard.”
Besides charges of bribery, extortion, fraud and obstruction of justice, Menendez has also been charged with acting as a foreign agent of Egypt. All the while, Monteleoni said, Menendez was sometimes speaking vaguely in his communications with his wife and the businessmen because, as she knew, he “wants his fingerprints off it” and “they don't want to get caught.”Menendez, 70, along with Hana and real estate developer Fred Daibes, have pleaded not guilty and are on trial together.
As part of his defense, Menendez's lawyers have argued that tens of thousands of dollars in cash found in Bob Menendez's boots and jackets resulted from his habit of storing cash at home after hearing from his family how they escaped Cuba in 1951 with only the cash they had hidden in their home.
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