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A $600,000 donation by a wealthy eye doctor accused of bribing Senator Bob Menendez was six times larger than the next-highest donation, it emerged at his corruption trial Wednesday.
The money, from Dr. Salomon Melgen of West Palm Beach, went to a super pac earmarked for New Jersey the year Menendez ran as the sole democrat in the state, a witness testified Wedenesday.
“How does that $600,000 compare to the other money given?” prosecutor Peter Koski asked Perry.
“It’s six times more than the next-highest donor,” he said.
The feds say the donations were bribes from Melgen because the first one corresponded directly with a meeting Menendez had with a Medicare official to help the eye doctor manage an $8.9 million Medicare billing dispute.
Around the same time the second check was cut, Melgen allegedly sent materials about the status of his Medicare case to Menendez and Perry — which Perry said he would pass along to former Majority Leader Harry Reid.
“Thank you, you’re the best!!!!” Perry said in an e-mail after Melgen made the second donation.
