New Jersey attorney general opens inquiry into fatal car crash involving Nadine Menendez

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New Jersey attorney general opens inquiry into fatal car crash involving Nadine Menendez
by Eden Villalovas, Breaking News Reporter
October 06, 2023 02:41 PM

The New Jersey attorney general’s office will open an inquiry into a fatal car crash four years ago that involved Nadine Menendez, the wife of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ).

According to newly released police records, Nadine Menendez struck and killed a pedestrian on the night of Dec. 12, 2018, in the New Jersey town of Bogota. She was not charged and told police the man jumped onto her windshield. Police conducted a brief investigation but did not find Nadine at fault, determining the man, identified as Richard Koop, 49, was jaywalking.

The incident was first reported this week, and the New Jersey attorney general’s office launched its inquiry one day after reports surfaced. The newly released reports raised questions about the credibility of the police investigation into Nadinee, as there is no indication of whether she was tested for drugs or alcohol, and police let her leave with no summons.

The Koop family has pressed for more information about how police business was conducted on the crime scene that night, telling reporters Nadine did not make an effort to assist Richard Koop after he was injured by her.

“She did nothing to come and render any aid,” Sheri Breen, a lawyer for Koop's family, told NBC News. “She moved her car out of the way, but she never came; for the entire length of the video that I was given, she never came to look at him, didn't even she never check to see if he’s alive.”

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/new-jersey-ag-inquiry-fatal-car-crash-nadine-menendez

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Menendez controversy: Officer at scene of future wife's deadly car crash identified
Michael Mordaga, retired police official, was on scene after Sen Bob Menendez's future wife, Nadine Arslanian, crashed car
By Isabel Vincent New York Post
Published October 6, 2023 11:01am EDT


A retired top policeman helped New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife-to-be leave the scene of her fatal car crash without a sobriety test or handing over her phone.

The New York Post has learned that Michael Mordaga, the former director of Hackensack Police and an ex-chief of detectives in the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, was on the scene within minutes when Nadine Arslanian slammed her black Mercedes into Richard Koop in Bogota, N.J., in December 2018.

Mordaga, 66, helped her leave behind the totaled car and take her belongings from it after quizzing the patrolman dealing with the crash on what he planned to do.

Dashcam footage and 911 recordings do not show Arslanian asking after the victim, but they do show her refusing to have her cellphone searched and also suggest she did not call 911 until officers were already on the scene — then told them the wrong location for the crash.

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/menendez-controversy-officer-scene-future-wifes-deadly-car-crash-identified