New Jersey Attorney General's office plans inquiry into Bob Menendez allegations

The New Jersey Attorney General’s office intends to launch an internal inquiry into the allegations that Sen. Bob Menendez intervened in a criminal prosecution on behalf of an associate in exchange for a luxury car, according to two agency officials familiar with the plans. The alleged intervention happened around 2019 — before current Attorney General Matt Platkin took control of the department — according to the indictment unsealed by federal prosecutors on Friday. Gurbir Grewal, who is now a division director in the Securities and Exchange Commission, was attorney general...