Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, sentenced to 11 years in jail for accepting a whole lot of hundreds of {dollars} value of gold and money provided as bribes, is getting 11 extra days of freedom.
A federal choose agreed to push again the date Menendez was scheduled to report back to jail. In a Decrease Manhattan courtroom on Friday, the choose agreed to delay the ex-senator’s give up from June 6 till June 17.
Menendez had requested a delay with the intention to attend the marriage of his stepdaughter, which is reportedly scheduled for early subsequent month.
The Democrat resigned final yr after turning into one in all solely a handful of U.S. senators ever convicted whereas in workplace. Menendez was convicted of taking bribes from three New Jersey businessmen in return for quite a lot of favors, together with utilizing his affect to assist a few of them of their dealings with international governments. The senator was convicted of appearing as a international agent for the Egyptian authorities.
The submitting of prices in opposition to Bob Menendez in fall 2023 compelled him to give up his highly effective submit as chairman of the Senate Overseas Relations Committee. He resigned as a senator after his conviction.
All through the senator’s two-month trial, Nadine Menendez was talked about repeatedly for her dealings with the businessmen. One in all them testified that he purchased Nadine Menendez a luxurious automotive after the senator tried to get New Jersey prosecutors to drop a felony investigation involving one in all his associates.
In 2022, FBI brokers raided the Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, house the place the couple lived, discovering over $100,000 in gold bars and greater than $480,000 in money stuffed in envelopes in shoe bins, jackets and boots.
The then-senator maintained throughout his trial that the gold bars belonged to his spouse and that the money resulted from his behavior of hoarding cash as a result of his dad and mom fled Cuba in 1951 with solely the money that they had hidden in a grandfather clock.
