Posted on 07/06/2017 12:17:10 PM PDT by jazusamo
A federal judge in New Jersey on Thursday rejected a Florida doctor's motion to postpone his and Sen. Bob Menendez 's (D-N.J.) September corruption trial, New Jersey Advance Media reported.
Attorneys for Dr. Salomon Melgen, an eye doctor who was convicted in a federal court in Florida last month of 67 counts of Medicaid fraud, asked U.S. District Judge William Walls last week to delay his and Menendez's trial until October.
Melgen is scheduled to be sentenced in August for the Medicare fraud charge.
The sentencing, his attorneys argued, would be "heavily litigated" and could unfairly burden his legal team to divide their attention between the two matters.
Walls wrote in response to Melgen's request that "no good cause has been demonstrated by the movant" to push back the trial date, which had long been set for Sept. 6.
In the New Jersey federal court case, Melgen and Menendez are facing corruption charges, with prosecutors alleging that Melgen gave the New Jersey Democrat nearly $1 million in campaign donations and free trips in exchange for government-related favors.
Menendez, who has served in the Senate since 2006, has pleaded not guilty in the case. Walls previously denied requests by Menendez's attorneys to delay the trial until October.
The timing of the trial has political implications in New Jersey. If Menendez steps down or is convicted before 2018, then Gov. Christie would appoint his replacement.
I had NO idea that this was still ongoing......thought they dropped it because he’s a Democrat, but then he said something bad about Obama....right?
LOL! I believe he did but it didn’t get him off the hook.
I think this has been going on over two years maybe three, I posted several articles on it way back.
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