Clos­ing argu­ments in Menen­dez case slat­ed for Mon­day

Clos­ing argu­ments in the bribery and cor­rup­tion tri­al of Sen. Bob Menen­dez (D‑NJ) could begin as ear­ly as Mon­day after­noon as the eight-week tri­al enters the home stretch. 
Menen­dez is accused of tak­ing hun­dreds of thou­sands of dol­lars in bribes, a con­vert­ible, and 13 gold bars in exchange for steer­ing aid to Egypt, facil­i­tat­ing a halal meat monop­oly, and dis­rupt­ing crim­i­nal inves­ti­ga­tions on behalf of his friends and fam­i­ly.

Sen. Bob Menen­dez (D‑NJ) leaves fed­er­al court fol­low­ing the day’s pro­ceed­ings in his bribery tri­al, Thurs­day, June 20, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Larry Neumeis­ter)

Pros­e­cu­tors have paint­ed the long­time law­mak­er as a greedy politi­cian straight out of a mafia movie.
They claim he held court in his New Jer­sey home, rang a tiny sil­ver bell to sum­mon his wife, and puffed on cig­ars while enter­tain­ing bids.
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The gov­ern­ment intro­duced thou­sands of pieces of evi­dence includ­ing texts and voice­mail mes­sages that were play …