Sen. Menendez’s Criminal Trial to Begin on May 6

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) is set to go on trial on May 6 on bribery-related charges. He will not be tried alongside his wife, Nadine Menendez. Her trial date has yet to be scheduled. U.S. District Court Judge Sidney Stein made the determinations on April 11. “The court will have to try this case twice,” said the judge in response to Ms. Menendez’s attorneys citing an unspecified health problem and that the trial should be delayed. The couple has been charged with conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery, conspiracy to commit honest wire fraud, conspiracy to commit extortion, extortion, conspiracy for a public official to act as a foreign agent, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and obstruction of justice....