An investigator provided a New York jury a riveting account on Tuesday of an evening in Washington, D.C., in 2019 when an FBI surveillance team came across Sen. Bob Menendez and his girlfriend at a fancy restaurant.
U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, who is accused of taking bribes of cash, gold bars and a luxury car in exchange for favors performed for several New Jersey businessmen, arrives at Federal Court, in New York, Monday, June 3, 2024. (AP …NEW YORK —
The testimony provided the jury one of the more interesting segments of testimony at a trial in its fourth week that has featured long stints on the stand by FBI agents and others as hundreds of pieces of evidence from emails to phone recordings to bank records to gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash were shown to the jury.
According to the indictment, the May 21, 2019, steakhouse dinner included the Menendez couple, fellow defendant Wael Hana and an unidentified Egyptian official hours after they had met in Menendez’s Senate office in Washington. Williams-Thompson said the surveillance she conducted at the steakhouse with seven or eight other investigators was part of her job for the last 18 years as an FBI investigative specialist.
Inside, she said, Williams-Thompson and her fellow investigator, a man, filmed the other table with the aid of a concealed camera. She didn’t reveal exactly how it was concealed but said it could be in an ordinary device such as eyeglasses, a tie or a teacup.
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