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David Porter

Senator’s Corruption Trial Could ‘Legalize Pay-To-Play Politics,’ Feds Say

New Jersey Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez’s corruption trial could be dismissed, a decision that prosecutors say could “broadly legalize pay-to-play politics.”

October 16th, 2017
David Porter
October 16th, 2017
By David Porter
Sen. Bob Menendez, center, arrives with his children, Alicia Menendez and Robert Menendez Jr., to court for his federal corruption trial in Newark, N.J., Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The judge in U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez’s corruption trial could rule on Monday to dismiss the bulk of the indictment against the New Jersey Democrat, a decision that prosecutors say could “broadly legalize pay-to-play politics.” After hearing six weeks of testimony and viewing dozens of emails and documents that prosecutors

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