Bob Menendez attorneys question prosecutors over ‘deeply troubling’ error showing jurors improper evidence

Lawyers for former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) are questioning the government’s conduct after federal prosecutors admitted last week that jurors were accidentally shown improper evidence while deliberating in his corruption case. In a pointed letter to U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein, Menendez’s lawyers called it “deeply troubling” that nine exhibits shown to jurors during deliberations…