Posted on 04/21/2025 1:42:15 PM PDT by DFG
A jury has found Nadine Menendez guilty in her federal bribery trial, following the conviction of her husband, former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, on similar crimes.
Prosecutors argued the two were "partners in crime" while accusing them of accepting cash, gold bars and a luxury car in exchange for political favors.
The defense argued there was no proof Nadine Menendez was involved in the scheme her husband was found guilty of perpetrating.
Jurors began deliberating Friday afternoon before reaching their verdict Monday afternoon.
She will be sentenced in June, the same month her husband is due to report to prison to begin serving an 11-year sentence.
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.
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Just remember, finding one elected crook is like looking at the tip of an iceberg.
If you got to clean up, Jersey is as good a place as any to start...
Woo hoo ! Now do Nanzi and Paul Pelosi and the Yurtles.
Everything I know bout New Jersey I learned from The Sopranos.
No proof?
Apparently, a jury thought they saw proof.
I hope Jill Biden is paying attention.
She was one of the few Bidens that did not get a pardon.
Don’t forget about the Clinton crime cartel and Schwartz Gyorgy.
well that's a Democrat as we all know at ABC news.
Now if it had been a Republican that would have been the lede.
It's better to live in a cardboard box under a bridge than to do even one day in stir.
To official Washington DC, the crime of the Menendez couple wasn’t about taking bribes; it was their sloppiness and getting caught.
I learned from going there to never go there.
I had an encounter with mafia-linked restaurant employees, who tried to force me to give up a bunch of personal information, including my hotel.
Sick people there in New Jersey.
You ordered a canoli and didn’t tip?
I hope he took the canoli but left the gun.
Wake me when they go to PRISON!
“No-show job”
Doesn’t this describe a lot of Federal employees the judges are trying to keep Trump from firing?
Excellent! There were stories about her cosigning document or legislation approvals with/for her husband. Unauthorized authority?
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