NEWARK, N.J. — The jury in U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez’s corruption trial will see portions of a CNN interview and a statement from his office about flights Menendez took on his co-defendant’s private jet, but they will not see the parts that reference since-discredited reports from a conservative website claiming the senator attended parties with […]
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NEWARK — A prosecutor’s line of questioning Monday afternoon in U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez’s ongoing federal corruption trial focused on the lavish amenities at a high-priced resort. The “number one” rated golf course in the Caribbean. Miles of sandy beaches and blue ocean. A spa, and a hotel that charges as much as $1,500 a […]
NEWARK — After Salomon Melgen’s Florida office was searched by the FBI on Jan. 30, 2013, his son-in-law made a late night request to the Federal Aviation Administration to remove the flight records of the doctor’s plane from public view, an agency official testified Monday. William Blacker, an analyst for the Federal Aviation Administration, testified […]
Sen. Bob Menendez Prosecutors in the corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez and Salomon Melgen, a wealthy Florida eye doctor and significant donor to the New Jersey politician, had mixed results yesterday when they put two of Melgen’s reputed former girlfriends on the witness stand. The prosecution’s goal was link Menendez’s efforts to smooth the […]
The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) released a study this week — Garden State Gotcha: How Opponents of Citizenship Verification for Voting Are Putting New Jersey’s Noncitizens at Risk of Deportation — and the results are eye-opening, Save Jerseyans, particularly as New Jersey voters prepare to elect a new governor. PILF conducted a six-month review of New Jersey counties’ voter […]
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NEWARK — A former senior policy advisor for U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez said he wasn’t trying to conceal what he was doing when he used his personal email account to discuss visa applications sought by Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen. On the witness stand in U.S. District Judge William H. Walls’ fourth-floor courtroom Tuesday morning, […]
A 90-day state pilot program that allows Ocean County residents who either purposely or inadvertently received unwarranted Medicaid benefits a chance to withdraw from the program and avoid criminal prosecution starts on Tuesday. The program, launched by the Office of the State Comptroller, comes in the wake of 26 arrests in Lakewood on fraud charges. […]
NEWARK — On the third day of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez’s federal bribery trial, a former senior policy advisor for the senator testified he helped advocate for tourist visas for two of his co-defendant’s three foreign girlfriends, and one of the women’s sisters. When initial applications for two of the women were denied, Mark Lopes […]
You have to admire the loyalty which Cory Booker (D-Twitter) has shown to his ally Bob Menendez, Save Jerseyans. I guess? Even one MSNBC host was forced to admit that the case against the indicted Democrat Senator is “overwhelming” as his trial got underway in Newark this week, but Booker sat in the front row […]
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NEWARK, N.J. — A federal judge on Thursday ripped prosecutors in their corruption case against U.S. Sen Robert Menendez, warning them not to pursue a lurid line of inquiry in reviewing evidence of the luxury trips they say he accepted as bribes to influence his actions in Washington. “It’s not going to be a tabloid […]
When Sen. Bob Menendez’s (D-N.J.) public corruption and bribery trial began Wednesday Republicans were quick to suggest the affair would lead to consequences for the Democratic Party. GOP-aligned groups hammered Democratic lawmakers for failing to distance themselves from the New Jersey senator or urge him to resign. Menendez remains intent on running for reelection in […]
Leading Democrats inside and outside of New Jersey refused to confront the possibility of a Menendez conviction on the first day of the veteran U.S. Senator’s federal corruption trial. Their answers were evasive: – – “Sen. Menendez is issuing a spirited defense,” Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Wednesday. “We all believe in […]
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The stakes couldn’t be higher as New Jersey Democrat Bob Menendez’s corruption trial begins today, Save Jerseyans, the first such trial for a sitting U.S. senator in almost four decades. It’s also yet another black mark for a Garden State political culture that can’t seem to go more than a year (or less) without a […]
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If Bob Menendez is ultimately convicted of corruption in his federal trial that’s slated to commence this week, Save Jerseyans? As the President’s own adviser recently noted, it could tip the balance of NUMEROUS debates in Congress ranging from health care to tax reform. Reuters did a fine job of explaining the stakes: If he is […]
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As Sen. Robert Menendez prepares to face corruption charges, Republicans are confident and Democrats fearful that the taint of a weekslong trial will snare other prominent Democrats in New Jersey and Washington. The trial kicks off Wednesday in New Jersey, where the 11-year incumbent senator is accused of using his office to try to assist […]
New Jersey native Kellyanne Conway dropped by Fox News on Thursday morning to assess the federal tax reform debate. Inevitably, another prominent New Jersey politico for the other side of the aisle (and his pending corruption trial) entered into the discussion: “There’s something else going on with the math, the calculation that nobody talks about, […]
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