The judge warned defense lawyers last week that telling jurors alleged details about Nadine Menendez's ex-boyfriend risks turning the trial 'into a soap opera.'
Washington — In the eighth week of his bribery trial, lawyers for Sen. Bob Menendez are expected to begin calling witnesses after the prosecution rested its case last week following testimony from 30 witnesses. The New Jersey Democrat and his wife, Nadine Menendez — both who have pleaded not guilty — are accused of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, gold and other bribes in exchange for political favors.
Prosecutors have alleged the senator used his wife as a go-between for the bribes. But Menendez's lawyers have insisted that Nadine Menendez kept him in the dark about her activities, telling jurors that he had no key to her locked closet where gold bars and some of the cash was found in their Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, home during an FBI search in June 2022.
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