Sen. Bob Menendez’s corruption trial involving gold-bar ‘bribes’ set to kick off

Sen. Bob Menendez’s latest corruption trial is set to kick off Monday with jury selection as the New Jersey pol battles allegations he accepted bribes including bars of gold and a Mercedes convertible.

This will be the the Garden State Democrat’s second federal criminal trial. He went on trial for other corruption and bribery charges in 2017, but the jury ended up deadlocked, resulting in a mistrial.

Menendez, 70, was charged in the latest case alongside his wife Nadine and three businessmen in a sprawling 18-count indictment laying out an alleged scheme in which the Menendezes received bribes from 2018 through 2022.