New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife have been indicted on bribery charges by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York. News 4’s Jonathan Dienst reports.
U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his wife were indicted Friday on charges that they took bribes of cash, gold bars and a luxury car for a range of corrupt acts, including having the Democrat use his influence over foreign affairs to benefit the authoritarian government of Egypt.
A search of the couple's home turned up $100,000 in gold bars and $480,000 in hidden cash, said prosecutors, who announced the charges against the 69-year-old Democrat nearly six years after an earlier criminal case against him ended with a deadlocked jury.
Read the 39-page indictment detailing the federal charges the senior senator from New Jersey now faces below:
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