AP Photo/Seth Wenig New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez’s possible prison sentence may be about to get even longer.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan on Tuesday filed fresh obstruction charges against Menendez, accusing him of lying to investigators.
The specific charge alleges that Menendez falsely claimed he was only made aware of various mortgage and car payments that two businessmen gave to his wife, Nadline Arslanian, in 2022.
“In truth and in fact, and as Menendez well knew, Menendez had learned of both the mortgage company payment and the car payments prior to 2022, and they were not loans, but bribe payments,” prosecutors wrote in their latest indictment. BREAKING: U.S. Senator Bob Menendez and his wife have been charged with obstruction of justice in a superseding indictment in the bribery case against him. pic.twitter.com/y4nAj1yNeY — ALX �� (@alx) March 5, 2024 The latest indictment comes after Menendez’s co-defendant, Jose Uribe, agreed to a plea […]
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