New Jersey businessman who pleaded guilty to trying to bribe Sen. Bob Menendez with Mercedes to testify in corruption trial
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Washington — A key witness in the corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez is expected to testify Friday about what he says was an attempt to bribe the New Jersey Democrat by buying his wife, Nadine Menendez, a new Mercedes-Benz convertible.
Jose Uribe, a New Jersey insurance broker who was indicted with Menendez, pleaded guilty in March and confessed to buying a $60,000 luxury car to influence the senator. He is cooperating with prosecutors.
During the March hearing, Uribe said he conspired with the senator's wife and others to buy her the car in exchange for her husband "using his power and influence as a United States senator to get a favorable outcome and to stop all investigations related to one of my associates," according to the Associated Press.
