Justice Department seeks to toss out charges against Sen. Menendez
Source: Washington Post
By Devlin Barrett January 31 at 12:09 PM
The Justice Department asked a judge Wednesday to toss out its indictment against Sen. Robert Menendez, as anti-corruption prosecutors signaled surrender in the case a week after the judge voided some of the charges.
In a terse filing, federal prosecutors asked U.S. District Court Judge Jose Linares to “dismiss the superseding indictment’’ against Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat.
Menendez’s first trial ended in a hung jury in November, with 10 of the 12 jurors voting to acquit him. Earlier this month, prosecutors had signaled they intended to retry the senator, and shortly after that a judge scaled back the case, tossing out some of the charges he and a co-defendant had faced.
The retreat on the Menendez case marks a setback for public integrity prosecutors at the Justice Department, as legal experts have questioned whether their authority to pursue such cases will be more limited in the wake of the Menendez mistrial and an earlier Supreme Court ruling.
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I wonder who in this Administration told them to bale out? Or is it bail out?
Or maybe it was unanimous consent? 
"We'll have none of that around here!" 
