Bob Menendez

Being a political boss in New Jersey ain’t what it used to be. Monday’s indictment on racketeering charges of Democratic power broker George E. Norcross III by state Attorney General Matt Platkin caps a series of blows to influential figures in the state’s dominant political party.

Prosecutors at the trial of Sen. Bob Menendez are using the testimony of his former campaign manager to try to link alleged bribes of the Democrat to the appointment of New Jersey’s top prosecutor.

Sen. Bob Menendez’s corruption trial resumed Tuesday after a delay due to one codefendant getting ill with COVID-19 last week. The top federal prosecutor in New Jersey testified about whether Menendez tried to pressure a him in exchange for alleged payoffs. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor testified Wednesday at Sen. Bob Menendez ‘s bribery trial that the Democrat sought to discuss the prosecution of a New Jersey real estate developer with him before recommending him to the post after Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.

A top federal prosecutor turned a key federal witness in the corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez. Philip Sellinger, the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, offered more bombshell testimony against Menendez, who helped him get his job. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

Defense lawyers in the bribery case against Sen. Bob Menendez conducted their cross-examination Wednesday, trying to paint a key witness for the prosecution as a longtime liar. The witness said he bribed the New Jersey senator and his wife with a new Mercedes. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

A New Jersey businessman has told a jury that Sen. Bob Menendez told him he’d look into a state criminal probe threatening his business and later assured him there was no threat. Jose Uribe testified in Manhattan federal court on Monday. He said he assumed at the time that Menendez knew he was making payments on a Mercedes-Benz for Menendez’s...

A key witness who admits making payoffs said he had several meetings with Sen. Bob Menendez, seeking his help to try to stop two criminal investigations. News 4’s Jonathan Dienst reports. 

A bombshell day in the bribery trial of Sen. Bob Menendez when a star witness took the stand. News 4’s Jonathan Dienst reports. 

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...

A former New Jersey attorney general has testified at Sen. Bob Menendez’s bribery trial that the Democrat twice confronted him about a pending criminal case. Gurbir Grewal told the Manhattan federal court jury on Thursday that he refused to discuss it with Menendez. He said he didn’t feel pressured but called Menendez’s effort “pretty unprecedented.” A defense attorney noted on...

The former attorney general for New Jersey took the witness stand in the bribery trial for Sen. Bob Menendez. Chief investigative reporter Jonathan Dienst has the latest details on this case.

The wife of Sen. Bob Menendez has been excused from appearing in court next week after her lawyer said she’s experiencing intense and chronic pain after surgery to treat cancer. Nadine Menendez was supposed to be on trial with the Democrat for the past month, but her trial was delayed until at least July after she was diagnosed with breast...

Democratic Rep. Andy Kim won New Jersey’s Senate primary Tuesday, putting him in strong position for the general election in the blue-leaning state, though the win comes a day after Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez filed to run as an independent amid his federal corruption trial.

Rob Menendez was initially thought to be a shoe-in for the Democratic nomination, but his father’s second indictment for alleged bribery has dominated headlines much more than his first term has — and now polls show the 38-year-old Menendez in a dead heat with Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

Private texts and emails between Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife have been in focus this week in his federal corruption trial. At times, there are messages about love — and other times, the prosecutors say the messages are about bribes. The FBI said the senator tried to help a businessman as well as the government of Egypt. NBC New...

At a bribery trial, a former top U.S. agricultural official has cast Sen. Bob Menendez as a villain who tried to stop him from disrupting an unusual sudden monopoly that developed five years ago over the certification of meat exported to Egypt.

Prosecutors at Sen. Bob Menendez’s bribery trial have showed jurors hundreds of texts, emails and phone calls that show his girlfriend-turned-wife’s desperate financial situation before New Jersey businessmen came to the rescue. Prosecutors elicited the evidence through the testimony of an FBI agent for a second day Wednesday as they sought to show that the Democratic senator conspired with three...

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez’s campaign has spent $2 million on defense and legal fees during his corruption case, according to a Federal Election Commission filing.

The trial of Sen. Bob Menendez grinded to a weeklong break on Tuesday after federal court jurors who were treated to a brick-by-brick build of the prosecution’s bribery case got stuck in an elevator a day after they were forced from their usual assembly room because of flooding.