Feds’ focus on Menendez remains a mystery. Will there be a political price to pay?

For months, a series of reports revealing sparse details of an ongoing investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan have put a spotlight on U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez.

There was the vacant waterfront property on River Road in Edgewater worth millions in a proposed real estate deal, which federal subpoenas revealed by sources suggested might be at the center of the probe apparently tied to the New Jersey Democrat.