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How Nadine Arslanian went from relative obscurity to the center of Bob Menendez's political corruption scandal
In late 2018, around the time Nadine Arslanian fell in love with the "very, very hot" US senator she met at a New Jersey IHOP, she found herself in need of a new car.
Her previous vehicle was wrecked when she hit Richard Koop, a 49-year-old father, killing him almost instantly on a darkened Bogota, New Jersey street. Koop "jumped onto the hood of the car," she told police at the scene, before they let her go.