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Bob Menendez's defense says prosecution failed to prove a single charge as bribery trial nears end

Bob Menendez (D-NJ) in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Credit: POOL via AFP / BONNIE CASH/BONNIE CASH)

The defense of embattled Senator Bob Menendez said the prosecution in his bribery trial failed to prove a single charge beyond reasonable doubt as closing arguments get close to their end and the jury gets ready to deliberate, CBS News reported.

Concretely, attorney Adam Fee said that there were many gaps in evidence presented, and that they filled them with their own conclusions to convince the jury. "There's zero evidence of him saying or suggesting that he was doing something for a bribe," Fee said during a passage of his allocution.

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