After a 3 month trial, through which attorneys for former New Jersey Senator, Bob Menendez, mentioned it was his spouse Nadine who was in charge for the money and gold discovered of their Englewood Cliffs residence, Menendez seems to be having a change of coronary heart.
In a letter addressed to Choose Sidney Stein forward of Nadine’s September 11th sentencing, Bob Menendez wrote that he regrets that she was painted as cash hungry throughout his trial.
“I remorse that I did not totally preview what my Protection Lawyer mentioned about Nadine throughout my trial and in his summation. To counsel that Nadine was cash hungry or in monetary want, and due to this fact would solicit others for assist, is just flawed,” he wrote.
Menendez added that Nadine truly had cash of her personal from a earlier divorce, and that any discussions about mortgage or automobile funds that have been referred to within the trial, have been the results of fears of a lawsuit following the deadly automobile accident she was concerned in, again in 2018.
Prosecutors mentioned Nadine Menendez was a accomplice in her husband’s crimes, serving to to gather payoffs from three New Jersey businessmen in a wide-ranging scheme. The protection argued among the gold she obtained was not bribes, however quite have been handed down from her household or have been presents from businessmen who have been longtime buddies. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst experiences.
The 71-year-old wrote his letter from jail at FCI Alletown in Pennsylvania and acknowledged that his spouse, of 5 years, has been punished sufficient and has misplaced every thing she cared about.
“Your Honor, you gave me a tricky sentence that certainly serves the deterrent worth you mentioned was wanted. To imprison Nadine, wouldn’t acknowledge the trauma she has suffered, the way it has affected her and her judgment, and I’d respectfully say wouldn’t have any higher deterrent impact,” he wrote.
Nadine’s attorneys voiced the same sentiment of their 25-page letter to the choose. The letter detailed the hardships she’s encountered all through her life, writing, “Nadine shouldn’t be her husband, or her co-defendants. Regardless of the entire Authorities’s efforts to current her as a vixen, the fact is way from that. She is a deeply traumatized lady.” They added, “her total life has been marked by males who’ve taken benefit of her, and harmed her, in myriad methods.”
Her attorneys are requesting 12 months and 1 day of imprisonment when she is sentenced on September eleventh.
“This complete case has been an train in deterrence. There isn’t any want for extra particular deterrence. In her late 50s, Nadine is a first-time offender with no threat of re-offending. Nadine’s total life has already been destroyed—her husband is serving an 11-year sentence, she is a social pariah, and she or he can’t step exterior of her residence or go to the grocery retailer with out attracting consideration.” Her attorneys wrote.
In April, Nadine was convicted of the identical corruption costs that despatched Robert Menendez to jail for 11 years.
Her trial was separate from her husband’s and two different New Jersey businessmen, so she might endure remedy for breast most cancers.
A number of medical professionals additionally wrote letters on Nadine’s behalf. A former BOP doctor wrote that Nadine wouldn’t be capable to get the medical consideration wanted for her breast most cancers remedies and that residence confinement could be the higher possibility for her.
