Bob Menendez trial: Lawyers for co-defendants say gifts were ‘not criminal’ - Washington Examiner

Bob Menendez trial: Lawyers for co-defendants say gifts were ‘not criminal’ - Washington Examiner

New Jersey real estate developer Fred Daibes and businessman Wael Hana might have given Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) expensive gifts, including a car, cash, and gold bars, but they weren’t bribes, a New York jury heard on Thursday. There is “nothing criminal about being generous,” Daibes’s lawyer, César de Castro, said. Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Pomerantz gives her opening statement while gesturing to Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), far left, as Ju…