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Sep 22, 2023 | 7:51 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his spouse have been indicted on expenses of bribery.
Federal prosecutors on Friday introduced the costs in opposition to the 69-year-old Democrat practically six years after an earlier legal case in opposition to him ended with a deadlocked jury. The latest indictment is unrelated to the sooner expenses that alleged Menendez accepted lavish presents to strain authorities officers on behalf of a Florida physician.
The Senate Historical Office says Menendez seems to be the primary sitting senator in U.S. historical past to have been indicted on two unrelated legal allegations. Menendez faces reelection subsequent 12 months in a bid to increase his three-decade profession in Washington, and as Democrats maintain a slender majority within the Senate.