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Updated on September 21, 2017 at 7:39 AM Posted on September 21, 2017 at 6:27 AM
By Paul Mulshine
Columnist, The Star-Ledger
On the drive up to Newark to view the trial of our senior senator on corruption charges, I heard a radio talker complain that the media are ignoring the proceedings because Bob Menendez is a Democrat.
I wanted to discuss that with the guy who’s been sitting next to me for the past few days of the trial.
Unfortunately, he fell asleep.
When I saw him in the hall during a break, I mentioned that to him. He replied, “Poke me if I start to snore.”
I could sympathize. The trial has become a war of attrition between the prosecution and defense.
The prosecution seeks to pound into the heads of the juries all of the instances in which the senator got treatment that few of us will ever experience. All came courtesy of his friendship with a Florida eye doctor who was found guilty last spring of 67 counts of defrauding Medicare of $105 million.
