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… One witness at the scene said in an interview that officers appeared to know who Nadine Menendez was and treated her with striking deference. Police recordings captured the voice of a man who identifies himself as a retired police officer from a nearby department. He can be heard saying he came to the scene as “a favor” to a friend whose wife knew Nadine Menendez.

The police reports indicate she was never tested for drugs or alcohol, and was allowed to leave the scene, not long before Koop was declared dead at a nearby hospital. Three days later, police investigators were sent to local bars to get more information on where Koop had been in the hours before his death.

Koop’s sister, Rosemarie Koop-Angelicola, said the family never heard a word from Nadine Menendez or the senator after the crash, and little from local authorities.

“The family really has had serious concerns over what we felt was a very sparse, one-sided investigation,” Koop-Angelicola said in an interview. “Definitely a lack of legal enthusiasm to take this case, definite lack of media coverage, and a lack of communication by the authorities of Bergen County. We felt that the whole thing was very silently swept under the rug.” …