A federal judge has rejected a bid by former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez to get his conviction on bribery charges thrown out.
Former U.S. Senator Bob Menendez has been convicted on 16 counts of corruption, including charges of abusing his position as a Senate committee leader and serving as a foreign agent. The conviction stems from activities between 2018 and 2022 when Menendez was the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Judge Sidney Stein swatted the new trial request down, Ry Rivard reports. He noted the material, which he had blocked from consideration over the “Speech and Debate Clause,” was minimal.
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez barked back Monday in response to a federal bribery indictment, insisting the nearly $500,000 in cash FBI agents found during a raid at his home in June 2022 was all legit. Sen. Menendez at Monday’s press conference.
A federal judge has rejected a bid by former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez to get his conviction on bribery charges thrown out.
Bob Menendez, D-N.J., arrives at Manhattan federal ... along with $480,000 in cash and a Mercedes-Benz convertible found during a 2022 FBI raid at the Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, home that ...
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Menendez, 71, has tried multiple times to get a new trial after he was convicted on bribery charges in July 2024.
Disgraced former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez won’t get a new trial based on an evidence snafu during jury deliberations, a Manhattan judge ruled.
A federal judge on Wednesday denied former Sen. Bob Menendez’s (D-N.J.) bid to toss his corruption conviction and receive a new trial because jurors during their deliberations had access to trial