New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin’s office is probing whether law enforcement mishandled the 2018 traffic accident in which the now-wife of indicted Sen. Bob Menendez struck and killed a pedestrian — but was allowed to leave the scene without taking a sobriety test or turning over her phone for a search.
Nadine Menendez (née Arslanian), now 56, ran over Richard Koop, 49, while driving her black Mercedes-Benz at about 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 12, 2018, in Bogota, but was never charged, the New York Times and NorthJersey.com reported Wednesday.
The Post reported earlier Friday that Michael Mordaga, a former director of Hackensack police and an ex-chief of detectives in the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, arrived on the scene within minutes of the crash and helped the powerful senator’s then-girlfriend collect her belongings from the smashed-up car and leave.