U.S. Senator Bob Menendez

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A federal judge threw out four bribery counts in U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez's corruption case on Monday but rejected claims by Menendez and a co-defendant that prosecutors presented false testimony to grand jurors and misused a law that's central to the case...

Here's more proof there's little accountability in government anymore.

Attorneys for U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez argued in court Thursday that the corruption case against him should be dismissed because the grand jury that indicted him was biased, prosecutors used hearsay evidence and salacious material was presented to inflame jurors.

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez's corruption trial is likely to be delayed, possibly for several months.

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez has renewed his attack on the federal government's corruption case against him and a Florida eye doctor in court filings that accuse prosecutors of ginning up the 22-count indictment out of a "fixation on sex and salacious headlines."

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Indicted U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez asked Monday to have his federal corruption case moved from New Jersey to Washington, D.C., arguing that virtually none of the 22 counts alleged occurred in the state.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey's U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez reports his legal defense fund raised $430,000 and spent about $100,000 this year before his indictment on bribery and corruption charges.

The Florida doctor charged in a political corruption case along with New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez was indicted Tuesday in a 76-count Medicare fraud scheme that prosecutors said attempted to bilk the health care program out of as much as $190 million.

With a corruption indictment announced last week, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez became the latest in a long line of New Jersey's top elected officials to be hit by scandal or corruption accusations.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, who pleaded not guilty this week to bribery charges, occupies the same seat as the last senator to be convicted of such a charge: Harrison "Pete" Williams.