(8 Jun 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
The Associated Press
New York – 07 Jun 2024
1. New Jersery Senator (D) Bob Menendez departs from courthouse, UPSOUND (Spanish):
"Wait for the cross-examination and you will see the truth. This has been in preparation for weeks."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Neumeister, The Associated Press:
"A month into the bribery trial of Senator Bob Menendez, prosecutors finally unveiled their star witness. He’s the turncoat. The one of three New Jersey businessmen who pled guilty in the case, and agreed to testify. He took the stand and said that at one point, one of the other two businessmen who are on trial came to him and said, ‘look, I can make some criminal investigation swirling around your friends business as well as possibly touching on your own businesses go away in return for 200,000 to $250,000’."
3. New Jersey businessman Jose Uribe departs from courthouse
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Neumeister, The Associated Press:
"Next week, Jose Uribe returns to the witness stand, and at some point, he will face cross-examination from the senator’s lawyers."
5. New Jersey Senator (D) Bob Menendez departs from courthouse
STORYLINE:
A New Jersey businessman who pleaded guilty and cooperated in the bribery case against Sen. Bob Menendez has begun testifying in Manhattan federal court.
Jose Uribe started testifying in Manhattan federal court on Friday afternoon, providing key testimony against the Democrat and two other businessmen charged in a conspiracy along with Menendez’s wife.
Uribe was the star witness for the government in its bid to win a conviction against the senator who once held the powerful post as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Menendez has pleaded not guilty to charges that he accepted gold bars, cash and a luxury car in return for doing favors for the businessmen.
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