Jose Uribe said he discussed the details at an Italian restaurant in New Jersey.
appeared to know the details of a prosecution and an investigation he and his wife are alleged to have taken bribes to disrupt, the man who has pleaded guilty to bribing them testified Monday.
But Uribe had yet to talk face-to-face with the senator about the alleged cases or the point of his bribes, which he’d first arranged with a friend of the senator’s girlfriend at the time, Nadine Menendez, and then with Nadine herself. Uribe faced careful questions by a federal prosecutor and by the judge, who granted a few objections from one of the senator’s defense attorneys and has been occasionally asking his own questions of witnesses during the trial that began in May.
He would eventually also arrange dozens of monthly car payments for her Mercedes or make them himself. The expectation was she would get the senator to help resolve state scrutiny that circled Uribe.
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