Psychiatrist can't testify about Sen. Bob Menendez's habit of stockpiling cash, judge says

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The New Jersey senator has a 'fear of scarcity' and developed 'a longstanding coping mechanism of routinely withdrawing and storing cash in his home,' his lawyers said last month.

A psychiatrist who evaluated New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez will not be allowed to testify at his corruption trial about 'two significant traumatic events' in his life that his lawyers say explain the hundreds of thousands in cash investigators found in his home, a judge said Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein barred testimony from the psychiatrist, Karen Rosenbaum, saying that some of her sworn statements would be based on hearsay.

Prosecutors objected to the proposed testimony, questioning the scientific basis for Rosenbaum's conclusions and arguing it was an attempt to gain sympathy from the jury. Prosecutors requested to have Menendez examined by a separate psychiatrist if Rosenbaum was allowed to take the witness stand.

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