Lawyers for the longtime U.S. Senator from New Jersey will start calling witnesses next week.
NEW YORK — Prosecutors rested their case on Friday after presenting evidence for seven weeks at the bribery trial of Sen., enabling the Democrat and two New Jersey businessmen to begin calling their own witnesses next week to support defense claims that no crimes were committed and no bribes were paid.
Menendez, 70, is on trial with two of the businessmen after a third pleaded guilty in a cooperation deal with the government and testified at the trial.Nadine Menendez, is also charged in the case, which was unveiled last fall. Her trial has been postponed while she recovers from breast cancer surgery. All defendants have pleaded not guilty.
They also plan to introduce testimony to try to show that Arslanian, who married Menendez in fall 2020, was in close contact with Menendez at the height of the alleged conspiracy in late 2018 and early 2019 because she was being harassed by an ex-boyfriend.
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