U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and his wife, Nadine Arslanian, were indicted Friday on charges they accepted bribes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from three New Jersey businessmen seeking the senator’s help with their personal and legal problems. The 39-page indictment unsealed Friday in federal court in New York accuses Menendez of using his broad powers as New Jersey’s senior senator and ranking member of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee to interfere with ongoing... Read this story
