Meeting with former health chief is focus of Menendez trial
Five years later, that meeting is playing a central role in the bribery case against
Jurors heard Tuesday from former Health and Human Services Secretary
An indictment charges Menendez met with Sebelius and others to advocate on behalf of
Menendez and Melgen deny those and other charges, including that Menendez interceded to help with visa applications for Melgen's foreign girlfriends in exchange for bribes. The men say they are longtime friends who have exchanged gifts for years with no nefarious intent.
Echoing two other health officials' testimony this week, Sebelius said Melgen's name wasn't mentioned during the meeting but she assumed his case, then under appeal, was the subject. She said it was the only time she could remember being asked to discuss "a practice that involved a Medicare or Medicaid billing issue."
"It was my understanding that that's what I was there to discuss," she said. "It was the issue I knew had been discussed multiple times between
As with the testimonies of former Medicare administrator
Tavenner testified Menendez "asked me to take a look at the policy, to consider if the policy was fairly stated, was there room for interpretation, did I need to make changes in the policy."
Asked by
Under cross-examination, Tavenner conceded she received a memo before her meeting with Menendez earlier in 2012 listing several issues he wanted to discuss that didn't have anything to do with Melgen.
Melgen eventually paid back the
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