Nadine Menendez, the wife of former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison for his international corruption racket, is set to receive her sentence soon. Nadine, who prosecutors referred to as the Senator’s “pattern in crime,” was deeply involved in a scheme that involved trading insider access to foreign governors for gold bars, expensive watches, and a convertible.
For context, the disgraced Democrat tried to throw his wife under the bus and blame her for the corruption. While the move was unsuccessful in saving Menedez from prison time, it did ensure that Nadine would face her own trial. As we reported, “At trial, as part of his defense, Senator Menendez may elect to testify to communications with his wife that serve to materially decrease any inference of culpability on Senator Menendez’s part. Senator Menendez will explain, for example, what he and his wife discussed contemporaneously with their dinners with Egyptian officials (which colored his understanding of the purpose of such dinners).”
Building on this point, prosecutors said, “the explanations that Nadine provided for why [co-defendants Wael Hanna and Jose Uribe] had provided her certain monetary items; the reasons why he sent his wife a series of questions that other Senators purportedly intended to ask an Egyptian official; and many more topics.”…CONTINUE READING