Jonathan Dienst is chief justice contributor for NBC News and chief investigative reporter for WNBC-TV in New York.
Jury selection begins Monday in the federal criminal trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., who is charged with accepting “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in bribes — including some in gold bars — in return for official acts. The once-powerful former head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him, which he’s described as “salacious.
Prosecutors have additionally charged the senior senator from New Jersey with allegedly trying to impede federal investigations into him, his wife and Daibes, and with attempting to intervene in the state prosecution of an Uribe associate and a state investigation into an employee of the businessman.
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