The businessman quoted the senator saying “I saved your ass not once but twice” for his intervention on two New Jersey criminal investigations.
NEW YORK — A businessman who says he bribed Sen. Bob Menendez with a luxury convertible to disrupt two criminal investigations in New Jersey testified Monday that the lawmaker was anything but subtle when discussing expectations and results over dinners and cigars.
“That thing you asked me about, it’s nothing there. I give you your peace,” Uribe said Menendez told him over the phone on another occasion. Taking the stand for a second day as star witness for the prosecution in Menendez’s corruption trial, Uribe, 57, described several key encounters with the couple that federal prosecutors say were textbook bribery offenses. According to Uribe, Arslanian wanted the new car and he wanted help “stopping and killing” the pair of insurance fraud investigations into several close associates in the trucking and insurance business.
“Mr. Menendez called for Nadine by saying something like ‘mon amour,’ and he also rang a bell — a little bell that he had on the table,” Uribe continued. Arslanian then brought them something so Uribe could write down those names. Menendez took the piece of paper, folded it and put it in his pants pocket, Uribe said.According to the trial evidence, Menendez met the next day with New Jersey’s attorney general at the time, Gurbir S.
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