In a shocking turnaround, the U.S. Justice Department has dropped its case against Sen. Robert Menendez.
In a court in Newark on Wednesday, federal prosecutors moved to dismiss the corruption indictment against the New Jersey Democrat after a federal judge last week acquitted Menendez and his co-defendant, Salomon Melgen, of seven of the 18 counts against them.
Both were facing a retrial after a deadlocked jury could not reach a verdict in the high-profile case in November.
“Given the impact of the court’s Jan. 24 order on the charges and the evidence admissible in a retrial, the United States has determined that it will not retry the defendants on the remaining charges,” said Department of Justice spokeswoman Nicole Navas Oxman.
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