New Jersey businessman Jose Uribe testified Monday that he asked Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) directly for his help in making an insurance fraud investigation of a friend go away.

Uribe, the prosecution’s star witness in Menendez’s federal bribery and corruption trial in Manhattan, told jurors he asked the Democratic senator to do “anything in his power” to stop the inquiry into a woman he considered to be like a daughter and that Menendez said he would “look into it.”