Posted on 04/20/2024 2:39:54 AM PDT by Libloather
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife has confided in friends that she is convinced she will go to prison because she is short of money for legal representation, The Post has learned.
Nadine Arslanian, the Democrat’s second wife, faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted on bribery and corruption charges when she goes on trial in July.
Her attorneys withdrew from her case earlier this month after successfully having her trial put off until July because she has “a serious medical condition” — leaving her without a defense team.
Now multiple members of her social circle have told The Post that Arslanian, a mother of two from her first marriage, is expecting to be convicted and jailed after her July trial because of her concern over cash.
Her husband — who lewdly nicknamed her “Bubbles” over her cleavage — has a legal defense fund that has already paid for an expert witness for his case and much of her legal costs, but she fears it cannot come close to covering the final bill.
She will face a jury at federal court in Manhattan after her husband’s separate trial, which begins on May 6 — at which his lawyers say he might “inculpate” his wife.
But the couple remain married and living together in the home they share in Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
The $1.2 million house is where the FBI found stacks of cash and gold bars when the bureau raided it, leading to Menendez, Arslanian and three New Jersey businessmen being charged with a sprawling scheme to sell his power and secretly conspire to act as agents for the governments of Egypt and Qatar.
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The only card I can see....they start dropping lobbyists left and right....giving names to the prosecution. I have little doubt that almost all of the Senators are taking some form of bribe/gift.
Failing that....I see the wife getting five years and out in four. Bob? He might be getting ten years and out in eight. Personally, I think it’s a waste of jail-space and the feds should take 50-percent of their total wealth, put ankle-trackers on the two and isolate them for the remainder of their life.
Inculpate? Really....he would do that as part of his defense strategy?? That makes no sense....
The wife is a gold digger.
convinced she will go to prison because she is short of money for legal representation,
She could get a public defender to represent her.
What a pig he is!
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