 six thirty three the defense for senator bob menendez has rested its case without the new jersey democrat testifying in his new york bribery trial lawyers for menendez called several witnesses over the past two days on an effort they say to counter seven weeks of testimony and hundreds of exhibits and communications that were introduced by the federal prosecutors in manhattan menendez and his wife they're accused of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for favors with the governments of egypt and cutter