NEW YORK — Sen Bob Menendez, a Democrat, went on trial in Manhattan federal court Monday, implicated of accepting allurements of gold and money to usage his impact to provide prefers that would aid 3 New Jersey businessowners.
Menendez, 70, sat with his attorneys and listened as Judge Sidney H. Stein informed numerous lots potential jurors about the charges versus Menendez and 2 of the businessowners.
The judge informed them the “sitting U.S. senator from the state of New Jersey” hadactually been charged in a conspiracy in which he supposedly “agreed to accept kickbacks and accepted kickbacks.”
After he alerted them that the trial was anticipated to last up to 7 weeks, Stein let jurors raise their hands if they thought they might not serve for that length of time. Then, he took them one at a time into a different space to ask them why.
Menendez, using a match with a red tie, was dropped off in front of a Manhattan federal courthouse at 8: 15 a.m., forty minutes before previous President Donald Trump’s motorcade passed by on its method throughout the street to state court, where he is on trial for presumably falsifying service records to conceal hush cash payments to a pornography star before the 2016 election.
He did not speak to pressreporters who were kept behind barriers as he wentinto a security structure where everybody gettingin the courthouse is scanned.
Menendez is on trial with 2 of the businessowners who supposedly paid him allurements — genuine estate designer Fred Daibes and Wael Hana. All 3 have pleaded not guilty. A 3rd businessperson has