(7 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York – 7 June 2024
1. Sen. Bob Menendez arrives at court
2. Co-defendant Fred Daibes arrives at court
STORYLINE:
Sen. Bob Menendez arrived at court Friday in New York as his bribery trial moves forward.
A former New Jersey attorney general testified Thursday at Sen. Bob Menendez’s bribery trial that the Democrat twice tried to discuss a pending criminal case with him, requests he considered “pretty unprecedented.”
Gurbir Grewal was called as a witness by prosecutors to support their claim that Menendez tried to interfere in a criminal case at the request of one of three New Jersey businessmen who were allegedly paying him bribes including gold bars, hundreds of thousands of dollars and a luxury car.
Menendez, 70, is on trial in Manhattan federal court with New Jersey businessmen Fred Daibes and Wael Hana. The three have pleaded not guilty.
The third businessman, Jose Uribe, has pleaded guilty and is expected to testify.
Grewal, now head of enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission, recalled Menendez first reaching out to him in early 2019, shortly after he’d taken the job as New Jersey’s top law enforcement officer.
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