Bob Menendez’ wife, Nadine, asks for light sentence in corruption case — as lawyers compare her to victims of Combs, Weinstein

Bob Menendez’ wife, Nadine, asks for light sentence in corruption case — as lawyers compare her to victims of Combs, Weinstein


6 Former Senator Bob Menendez is now serving an 11-year sentence for his part in a corruption scheme in which he received hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and gold bars as well as a Mercedes convertible for aiding New Jersey businessmen and the governments of Egypt and Qatar. Her husband is currently serving an 11-year sentence for his part in the same corruption scheme that saw the couple receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and gold bars as well as a Mercedes convertible for aiding New Jersey businessmen and the governments of Egypt and Qatar. In court papers, they claim she suffered trauma from a young age that impacted her ability to act independently when her father was kidnapped and spent a year in prison in Syria, and her entire family was forced to flee the civil war in their native Lebanon in the 1970s.

Author: Isabel Vincent


Published at: 2025-08-25 21:39:40

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