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New York (AFP) - Jury selection began on Monday in the trial of a powerful US senator charged with corruption after gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash were found at his home. Senator Robert Menendez, a 70-year-old Democrat from New Jersey, and his wife Nadine are accused of extortion, obstruction of justice and accepting bribes to perform favors for businessmen with connections to Egypt and Qatar. Menendez, the former chairman of the influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is on trial in a federal court in Manhattan with two of the businessmen -- Egyptian-American W...
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New York (AFP) - Federal prosecutors charged powerful US Senator Robert Menendez on Friday with bribery and extortion, saying gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash had been found at the high-ranking Democrat's home. In one of several allegations, the Justice Department said Menendez had provided sensitive information to the Egyptian government in order to help an Egyptian-American businessman protect his monopoly. It was the second corruption indictment in eight years against the veteran New Jersey politician, 69, and may place into question his hold on his seat in Congress an...
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New York (AFP) - US Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, a Democrat and the powerful head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been indicted on corruption charges for a second time, the Justice Department announced Friday. The 69-year-old senator and his wife Nadine Menendez have been charged with "bribery offenses in connection with their corrupt relationship with three New Jersey businessmen," the federal prosecutor in New York said. The second corruption indictment of Menendez in a decade -- the first ended in a mistrial -- could pose a threat to the Democratic Party's slim hold...
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