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Dec 13, 2006 3:33 pm US/Eastern

Ex-Menendez Aide Gets Federal Grand Jury Subpoena

TRENTON, N.J. (CBS/AP) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 1: A former campaign aide to Sen. Robert Menendez has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury, her lawyer said Wednesday.
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A former campaign aide to Sen. Robert Menendez has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury, her lawyer said Wednesday.

Danielle Leigh, who was Menendez's finance director for six years, has not yet testified, her attorney Remi Spencer said. Spencer would not comment any further on the subpoena, first reported Wednesday by The Star-Ledger of Newark and The Record of Hackensack.

Leigh, who now runs a firm in West Paterson called Bright Side Consultants LLC, did not respond to a telephone message left at her office Wednesday. She left Menendez's campaign earlier this year.

Federal officials have declined to comment on all aspects of the federal grand jury. However, another attorney last week confirmed this his client had testified before the grand jury regarding a real estate transaction Menendez had with the North Hudson Action Corp., a nonprofit agency.

Menendez had rented to the nonprofit group for nine years and had helped it obtain federal funds. He has said he obtained clearance from the House Ethics Committee before entering the transaction.

"We remain confident that following any review conducted by the U.S. attorney, he will conclude that all the transactions were appropriate and legal," Menendez's Senate spokesman, Allyn Brooks-LaSure, said Wednesday.

Menendez has repeatedly said he has not been subpoenaed in any federal investigation. During the Senate campaign, GOP challenger Tom Kean Jr. continually slammed the lease deal as unethical. Menendez defeated Kean by 8 percentage points.