The wife of former U.S. Senator Robert Menendez says she should receive a sentence of one year and one day in prison instead of the eight years that the federal court’s probation office recommended for her conviction on bribery charges.
For her April conviction on accusations that she conspired with the New Jersey Democrat to take bribes of cash, gold bars, and a luxury automobile from three New Jersey businessmen, Nadine Menendez, 58, is set to be sentenced next month.
In a statement to the sentencing judge on Friday, the attorneys explained that a lengthy prison term could result in death by pointing to more surgery she will need to undergo as part of her breast cancer treatment.
Less than half of the money the government says was lost as a result of a bribery scheme that prosecutors say spanned from 2018 until a year after the FBI raided the Menendez home in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, in 2022, they said, was involved in her crimes, totaling roughly $400,000.
According to her attorneys, Nadine is neither her spouse nor one of her co-defendants. She is far from being a vixen, despite the government’s best efforts to portray her as such. Men have exploited her and hurt her in a variety of ways throughout her entire life. In these situations, a prolonged sentence is neither necessary nor justified.
At a later time, prosecutors will submit their recommended sentence. Robert Menendez has been sentenced to 11 years in prison.
Before they were married in the fall of 2020, prosecutors accused Nadine Menendez of helping to arrange bribes for the senator at the period when they first started dating.
