Federal prosecutors say some evidence that a judge had excluded from the bribery trial of former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was inadvertently put on a computer given to jurors, but they say it should not affect the Democrat's conviction NEW YORK -- Some ...

But some of that evidence was inadvertently loaded without redactions onto a laptop that jurors were given for their few days of deliberations. Menendez resigned this summer after jurors found him guilty of bribery, acting as a foreign agent, obstruction of justice, extortion and conspiring to commit those crimes.

The jury that convicted Robert Menendez of corruption was allowed to review improper evidence during deliberations, but the error does not justify overturning the former New Jersey senator's conviction,

The jury that found former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) guilty of corruption was accidentally shown improper evidence, though the mistake should not imperil his conviction, federal prosecutors said