Small victory for defense in Menendez trial as FBI agent concedes he misspoke

Sen. Robert Menendez scored a small win at his federal corruption trial on Friday when the FBI agent in charge of searching the Menendez home acknowledged that he was wrong when he testified that the senator’s suit jacket was hanging in a closet where cash and gold bars were found. The jacket, he said, was actually hanging on the back of the door in the bedroom, just inches from the closet in question.

Menendez’s lawyers say he will contest the prosecutor’s allegations, and argue Nadine Menendez merely accepted gifts and loans from her friends and the senator never offered any help in exchange. Kougemitros agreed, explaining that further review of the photos showed the suit jacket was not in the closet. Prosecutors said agents found hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, gold bars and gold jewelry in the closet.

He had testified earlier that the FBI found four jackets hanging in the basement, two of which had the senator’s name embroidered on them, with cash in the pockets. The diplomat, James Bret Tate, testified that he was working to expand the number of U.S. businesses that were approved by Egypt to certify U.S. halal meat exports. He took a trip in 2019 with officials from Egypt, driving from Chicago to Denver, and touring meat processing plants.

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