Among the Bob Menendez supporters who came to Hoboken Tuesday as the Senate election votes rolled in was Evelyn Arroyo-Maultsby, a juror on Menendez’s corruption trial last year.

Arroyo-Maultsby became slightly famous when she left the jury during deliberations to go on vacation – arrangements she made with U.S. District Judge William H. Walls, along with defense lawyers and prosecutors.

Menendez won his third term to the U.S. Senate, defeating Bob Hugin.



Arroyo-Maultsby wore a Menendez T-shirt on Tuesday night that she received at a rally last month.



“I never really knew anything about him before the trial,” she said. “He’s a good man. I was in that jury room and I know he didn’t do anything wrong.”

Last year Arroyo-Maultsby said she was dead set against convicting the New Jersey Democrat and his co-defendant. She was dismissed from the trial so she could take a long-scheduled vacation, a promise the judge made to her during jury selection in August.

Arroyo-Maltsby said being a part of the trial led her to pay more attention to politics. She saw a news report about the location of the victory rally and decided to attend, unprompted by the Menendez campaign.

She did not campaign directly for Menendez or remember if she voted for him in 2012, but she did Tuesday. As for the trial she said there were only two jurors who were unsure of his guilt while the rest decided he was not guilty.

"I saw no crime," she said.

Menendez was accused of using his office to help co-defendant Salomon Melgen secure visas for his foreign girlfriends and to intervene in a lucrative port security contract in the Dominican Republic and a multimillion-dollar Medicare dispute.

In exchange, prosecutors argued in court, Menendez took bribes in the form of luxury vacations, free flights on Melgen’s private jets and $660,000 in political contributions.

Some people on Twitter remarked that Arroyo-Maultsby's presence Tuesday was a very New Jersey thing to happen.

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