Bob Menendez

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is asking a federal judge to delay his end-of-January sentencing on bribery charges, saying his family would suffer a “tremendous emotional toll” if the New Jersey Democrat was sentenced during his wife’s trial. His lawyers told Judge Sidney H. Stein in a letter that Nadine Menendez would face a jury that might find it impossible...

Bob Menendez asked a judge Wednesday to set aside guilty verdicts that forced his resignation from the U.S. Senate and grant a new bribery trial.

Federal prosecutors say some evidence that a judge had excluded from the bribery trial of former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was inadvertently put on a computer given to jurors, but they say it should not affect the Democrat’s conviction. Prosecutors told a federal trial judge in a letter Wednesday that they recently discovered the error. They say the laptop...

Fred Daibes, the man convicted of bribing Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) with gold bars and cash, pleaded guilty in federal court in Newark on Thursday to a separate count of bank fraud. The judge said that Daibes, a New Jersey developer, faces between 18 and 37 months in prison under the plea deal for the fraud charge. Sentencing was scheduled…

Attorneys for New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez filed a motion Monday seeking their client’s acquittal in connection to the bribery case Menendez was found guilty in last month. “Senator Robert Menendez respectfully renews his motion for judgment of acquittal on all counts for failure to introduce sufficient evidence to satisfy each of the elements of each offense, or, in...

Chris Glorioso reporting on awaiting Gov. Murphy’s pick to replace Sen. Menendez. 

One of the businessmen convicted of bribing NJ Sen. Bob Menendez with cash and gold bars is in plea talks in a separate bank fraud case. An attorney for Fred Daibes told a federal judge today that he hopes to have a plea deal done by August to avoid a trial on bank fraud related counts.

New Jersey’s senior senator now has less than a month left in the senate after announcing that he would resign from Congress on Aug. 20. The news came one day after the senate’s ethics committee started a review on his expulsion. So what will happen before he officially leaves office? NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

Sen. Bob Menendez, the New Jersey Democrat who has served in public office for decades, will resign his Senate seat effective Aug. 20, he said in a letter addressed to Gov. Phil Murphy. This latest development comes a week after the senator was convicted in a federal bribery case. An ending to a trial that stains a decades-long career in public office. A...

Sen. Bob Menendez submitted a letter of resignation on Tuesday to Gov. Phil Murphy, which comes a week after his federal corruption conviction. According to the copy obtained by NBC News, his last day in public office will be Aug. 20. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez announced his plans Tuesday to resign from office, effective Aug. 20, following his conviction last week on all 16 counts against him in a federal corruption trial. Menendez is currently the senior senator from the Garden State and has been serving in the seat since 2006. He sent a letter earlier on Tuesday to New…

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez said in a letter that he will resign his position in August, a week after he was found guilty on all counts in his federal corruption trial and amid mounting calls for him to step down.

The Senate Ethics Committee said Monday that its members had voted unanimously to review allegations that Sen. Bob Menendez violated Senate rules, building towards potential disciplinary actions against the New Jersey Democrat after he was convicted of bribery charges this month. The ethics panel could recommend that Menendez be censured or expelled, which would put maximum pressure on the senator…

Following his convictions in his federal corruption trial, Sen. Bob Menendez is calling close associates and telling them he intends to resign his senate seat, sources tell NBC News. Jonathan Dienst reports.

Following his convictions in his federal corruption trial, Sen. Bob Menendez is calling close associates and telling them he intends to resign his senate seat, sources tell NBC News.

The New Jersey lawmaker has faced calls to step down from fellow Democrats, including Gov. Phil Murphy, who will, appoint a senator to finish out Menendez’s term

Sen. Bob Menendez became one of just a handful of U.S. senators to be convicted of a crime while in office — and the first ever found guilty of being an agent of a foreign government — raising questions about whether he will be able to serve out the remainder of his term.

A Manhattan jury found New Jersey’s senior senator guilty in his federal corruption trial, as deliberations took just over 12 hours over the course of three days. After convicted on all counts against him and two other defendants, Menendez and his attorneys vowed to appeal. New York’s Jonathan Dienst and Adam Harding report.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has called on Sen. Bob Menendez to resign his seat following the New Jersey senator’s guilty verdict in his federal corruption trial. Menendez was convicted on Tuesday of all the counts he faced at his corruption trial, including accepting bribes of gold and cash from three New Jersey businessmen and acting as a foreign agent...

The New Jersey senator’s co-defendants were also found guilty.