Wednesday, 30 April 2025

Jury Finds Wife Of Former Democrat Senator GUILTY In Federal Bribery Trial

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Nadine Menendez, the wife of former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), was found guilty by a jury in her federal bribery trial.

The Manhattan jury found her guilty on 15 public corruption charges.

“Nadine Menendez was accused by prosecutors of being her husband’s partner in crime and acting as go-between as the couple sold his power in exchange for cash, gold and a Mercedes convertible,” POLITICO reports.

Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison after being convicted on bribery and corruption charges.

JUST IN: Former Democrat Senator Sentenced To 11 Years In Prison

Nadine Menendez will be sentenced in June, the same month her husband is scheduled to report to prison to serve his sentence.

From the New York Post:

Nadine was the “go-between” connecting Bob with businessmen who funneled bribes to them from the Egyptian and Qatari governments, Manhattan federal prosecutors said.

In exchange, the pilloried pol leveraged his powerful post as head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to lobby colleagues to unfreeze $300 million in Egyptian military aid that had been held up due to human rights concerns, and dole out other valuable favors, jurors heard at a one-month trial.

“What else can the love of my life do for you?” Nadine told one Egyptian official while sitting alongside her cigar-puffing hubby during a May 2019 dinner at Morton’s Steakhouse, evidence revealed.

Former Garden State insurance broker Jose Uribe testified that he bribed Nadine with a new Mercedes-Benz C-300 in exchange for her husband’s help shutting down a criminal probe.

“Congratulations mon amour de la vie, we are the proud owners of a 2019 Mercedes,” Nadine texted her husband after receiving the first payment toward the new car, using the French phrase for “love of my life.”

FBI agents who raided the couple’s Englewood Hills home found the luxury car parked in their garage, and more than $150,000 in gold bars stored inside Nadine’s safe. Jurors saw more than $400,000 in cash stuffed into envelopes and strewn across the home, including inside the former senator’s official government windbreaker.

As the bribes poured in from businessmen Uribe, Wael Hana and Fred Daibes, Nadine “put the senator’s power up for sale,” prosecutors said, calling her his “partner in crime.”

ABC News reports:

She pleaded not guilty to 15 charges, including conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud and conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right. Several of the charges carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison in January after being convicted on all 16 counts last year in his federal corruption trial, becoming the first sitting member of Congress to be convicted of acting as a foreign agent.

A jury found him guilty of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bribes -- including gold, cash, a luxury convertible, payments toward Nadine Menendez's home mortgage and compensation for her no-show job -- from three New Jersey businessmen, who have also been convicted.

"Nadine Menendez and Senator Menendez were partners in crime," acting U.S. Attorney Matthew Podolsky said in a statement following the verdict in the corruption and foreign influence scheme. "Over the span of five years, Nadine Menendez agreed to accept and accepted all sorts of bribes -- including gold bars, cash, a Mercedes-Benz convertible, and a no-show job -- all in exchange for the Senator's corrupt official acts. Together, Nadine Menendez and the Senator placed their own interests and greed ahead of the interests of the citizens the Senator was elected to serve."

"Today's verdict sends the clear message that the power of government officials may not be put up for sale, and that all those who facilitate corruption will be held accountable for their actions," he added.

The FBI said it found $70,000 in cash in Nadine Menendez's safe deposit box and the rest inside congressional jackets bearing Bob Menendez's name.

Shortly after the two began dating in 2018, Nadine Menendez introduced Egyptian intelligence and military officials to then-Sen. Bob Menendez, according to federal prosecutors, who alleged those introductions helped establish a corrupt agreement in which they accepted bribes in exchange for her husband's actions to benefit Egypt.

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