WASHINGTON — After spending more than $230,000 from his campaign account this year on lawyers and related consultants responding to what a spokesman called “an official inquiry,” Sen. Bob Menendez is setting up a legal defense fund.
It’s not the first time he’s done so.
NBC News in New York City first reported on the defense fund. Citing unnamed sources, NBC News said the New Jersey Democrat who chairs the Foreign Relations Committee faces an investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York tied to a Weehawken, New Jersey, meat company that won an exclusive contract with the government of Egypt.
