Menendez’s Wife Hid Truth About Mercedes Benz, Lawyer Says (3)

US Senator Bob Menendez’s lawyer told jurors that the politician’s wife failed to tell him details of how she got a Mercedes Benz from a convicted felon who testified during the lawmaker’s corruption trial that the car was a bribe.

The defense attorney used his closing argument Wednesday in New York to undermine a sweeping case against Menendez, including a claim that former insurance broker Jose Uribe bribed the senator’s then-girlfriend Nadine Arslanian with the Mercedes to get him to influence two criminal investigations.

Bob Menendez exits federal court in New York on June 10.

Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg

Uribe, who pleaded guilty and testified against the New Jersey Democrat, lied to jurors ...