Sen. Bob Menendez's bribery trial is on a weeklong break after Manhattan federal court jurors got stuck in an elevator.
The trial of Sen. Robert Menendez grinded to a weeklong break Tuesday after federal court jurors who were treated to a brick-by-brick build of the prosecution's bribery case got stuck in an elevator a day after they were forced from their usual assembly room because of flooding. Judge Sidney H. Stein said jurors were trapped in an elevator for several minutes during what was supposed to be a 10-minute late-afternoon break that lasted almost a half hour.
, and the businessmen say their clients are not guilty and that the government is trying to turn common interactions between a politician and his constituents into crimes. Among the witnesses Tuesday was a man who worked for the State Department during the years when prosecutors say Menendez used his powerful post as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to do favors for Egypt so he could keep bribes flowing.
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