NEW YORK (WABC) — Nadine Menendez should report back to federal jail by 2 p.m. Friday after a decide denied her last-minute request to delay the beginning of her 54-month sentence whereas she completes breast most cancers reconstruction surgical procedure.
U.S. District Decide Sidney H. Stein rejected the request following a phone convention Thursday afternoon, ordering that Menendez give up to the Bureau of Prisons as initially scheduled.
“The Court docket denies defendant’s request for an extension of her give up date,” Stein wrote within the order. “The defendant shall give up on the establishment designated by the Bureau of Prisons earlier than 2:00 p.m. on July 10, 2026.”
Menendez had requested the court docket to postpone her give up till Oct. 30, arguing she wanted further time to finish medically vital breast most cancers reconstruction. Her attorneys stated the procedures have been a part of her ongoing restoration after present process therapy for breast most cancers.
The decide had beforehand delayed her give up for months following her sentencing to permit her to obtain most cancers therapy.
Final September, Stein sentenced the 58-year-old to 4 and a half years in jail after a federal jury discovered her responsible of taking part in a yearslong bribery scheme alongside her husband, former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez.
Prosecutors stated Nadine Menendez performed a key function in facilitating corrupt dealings between the previous New Jersey senator and three businessmen, serving as an middleman in alternate for bribes that included money, gold bars and a luxurious Mercedes-Benz convertible.
She was convicted of serving to her husband use his political affect to profit the businessmen and, in some situations, help the Egyptian authorities.
Throughout her sentencing, Menendez tearfully instructed the decide that her husband had manipulated her and stated, “He isn’t the person I assumed he was.”
Decide Stein rejected protection claims that she was merely following her husband’s lead, telling her she was not “an harmless observer” and that her participation within the scheme was “purposeful.”
Federal prosecutors described her as “the second-most culpable member” of the conspiracy after her husband.
Bob Menendez, the previous chairman of the Senate International Relations Committee, is serving an 11-year federal jail sentence after being convicted on bribery, extortion and international agent prices stemming from the identical corruption investigation.
Investigators who searched the couple’s New Jersey dwelling in 2022 recovered about $480,000 in money, gold bars value an estimated $150,000 and a luxurious convertible that prosecutors stated have been tied to the bribery scheme.
Nadine Menendez has stated she plans to enchantment her conviction.
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