NJ businessman testifies that he bribed ‘Gold Bar Bob’ Menendez with a Mercedes-Benz
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NJ businessman testifies that he bribed ‘Gold Bar Bob’ Menendez with a Mercedes-Benz

A New Jersey businessman testified Friday that he bribed Sen. Bob Menendez, telling jurors in the Garden State Democrat’s federal corruption trial that he provided the lawmaker’s wife with a Mercedes-Benz to shut down a criminal probe. “She agreed to the terms,” Jose Uribe told the Federal District Court in Manhattan of Nadine Menendez’s reaction to his March 2019 offer to buy her a $60,000 luxury convertible if she could get her 70-year-old senator husband to scuttle an investigation into...