Jose Uribe did not testify to any conversations with New Jersey's senator about bribes.
Jose Uribe did not testify to any conversations with New Jersey’s senator about bribes.06/07/2024 08:10 PM EDTJose Uribe, a New Jersey business person cooperating with federal authorities in the corruption trial of Sen., said Friday that he bribed the senator and his now-wife to “stop and kill” an investigation that was circling his insurance business.
Hana, an Egyptian-American business person also now accused of bribing Menendez, then shared an office space with Uribe’s attorney. There, Hana overheard Uribe’s legal troubles and pulled Uribe into a hallway. Hana said that for somewhere between $200,000 and $250,000 he had “a way to make these things go away,” Uribe testified.
During two hours of testimony, which will continue Monday, he covered events through March 2019, just after he said he promised to buy a car for Nadine Menendez — who was known as Nadine Arslanian at the time, before her fall 2020 marriage to the senator. She is also charged in the case but will stand trial separately after being diagnosed with breast cancer.
Uribe and the senator had other in-person meetings later in 2019, which next week’s testimony is expected to detail. Still, nothing happened. So, in early March 2019, Uribe said, he talked directly with Nadine. He said he listened to her complain about the men in her life, including Hana, who had let her down. Uribe said Nadine told him Hana had promised her a car. Uribe said that instead he would buy her a car “as soon as she helps me.”
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