NEW YORK — A Manhattan jury on Monday found former Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife 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.
Nadine Menendez arrives to a federal courthouse in New York on Monday, April 21, 2025. | Seth Wenig/AP
By Ry Rivard
04/21/2025 04:14 PM EDT
NEW YORK — A Manhattan jury on Monday found former Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife 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.
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Bob Menendez was found guilty last year on 16 counts of corruption. He is scheduled to go to federal prison for an 11-year sentence beginning in June.
Following the verdict, she echoed her husband’s criticism that the case was political.
“I think this is politically motivated and this is all political,” Nadine Menendez said.
The couple’s trials, which were separated because of her health issues, are the result of a multi-year investigation that last year brought down the powerful New Jersey Democrat. But they also may be the end of an era for the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, formally known as the Southern District of New York.
The latest major public corruption case brought by the office — charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams — just went down in flames after an order from Trump’s Department of Justice to drop the charges.
The district has been rocked by resignations and uncertainty over who its next leader will be. Plus, there’s President Donald Trump’s approach to public corruption generally. Before Adams was let loose, Trump pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and has previously given clemencies to a handful of staffers and political advisers.
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