Legal professionals for Nadine Menendez are requesting 12 months and sooner or later of imprisonment when she is sentenced on September 11, having been discovered responsible on all counts within the bribery and fraud trial that additionally landed her husband behind bars.
Of their 25-page letter to Choose Sidney Stein, Menendez’s legal professionals detailed the hardships she’s encountered all through her life, writing, “Nadine is not her husband, or her co-defendants. Despite all of the government’s efforts to present her as a vixen, the reality is far from that. She is a deeply traumatized woman.”
They added, “Her entire life has been marked by men who have taken advantage of her, and harmed her, in myriad ways.”
Different letters from buddies, household and her husband, Bob, additionally pleaded for leniency.
Prosecutors stated Nadine Menendez was a associate in her husband’s crimes, serving to to gather payoffs from three New Jersey businessmen in a wide-ranging scheme. The protection argued a number of the gold she obtained was not bribes, however slightly had been handed down from her household or had been presents from businessmen who had been longtime buddies. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reviews.
Bob Menendez, who wrote his letter from jail at FCI Alletown in Pennsylvania, said that his spouse of 5 years has been punished sufficient and has misplaced every part she cared about.
“Your Honor, you gave me a tough sentence that surely serves the deterrent value you said was needed. To imprison Nadine, would not recognize the trauma she has suffered, how it has affected her and her judgment, and I would respectfully say would not have any greater deterrent effect,” wrote the 71-year-old.
Bob Menendez went on to say he regrets that she was painted as money-hungry throughout his trial.
“I regret that I didn’t fully preview what my defense attorney said about Nadine during my trial and in his summation. To suggest that Nadine was money-hungry or in financial need, and therefore would solicit others for help, is simply wrong,” he wrote.
Bob Menendez added that Nadine Menendez had cash of her personal from a earlier divorce, and that any discussions about mortgage or automotive funds that had been referred to within the trial had been the results of fears of a lawsuit following the deadly automotive accident she was concerned in.
A number of medical professionals additionally wrote letters on Nadine Menendez’s behalf. A former BOP doctor wrote that she wouldn’t be capable of get the medial consideration wanted for her breast most cancers remedies and that residence confinement could be the higher choice for her.
In April, Nadine Menendez was convicted of the identical corruption expenses that despatched Bob Menendez to jail for 11 years.
