Check this out from NBC New York, Save Jerseyans:
“Sen. Robert Menendez may blame his wife if he takes the stand during his trial, possibly claiming she was the one getting the money and hiding the truth from him, according to court filing,” reported Jonathan Dienst. “The Democrat’s line of defense was filed in secret with a federal judge in January. The document were made public on Tuesday after the news media fought to make the documents public.”
And it gets better…
In those documents, Menendez’s legal team wrote that if the senior senator from New Jersey were to take the stand, his story would clear him of the allegations he accepted any bribes — but that story could implicate his wife Nadine. The lawyers stated that she kept information from him and he was apparently unaware of what she had been doing, leading him to believe nothing illegal was occurring.
“While these explanations, and the marital communications on which they rely, will tend to exonerate Senator Menendez by demonstrating the absence of any improper intent on Senator Menendez’s part, they may inculpate Nadine by demonstrating the ways in which she withheld information from Senator Menendez or otherwise led him to believe that nothing unlawful was taking place,” the documents state.
Menendez’s trial is slated to begin in May.
