© Chris Pedota, NorthJersey.com / USA TODAY NETWORK
(New York, NY) — The jury in the Nadine Menendez’ three-week corruption and bribery trial is now deliberating.
Federal prosecutors repeatedly called the 58-year-old a “partner in crime” during four hours of closing arguments on Thursday (April 17, 2025). Her lawyers took two hours to try to knock down arguments that she colluded with her husband, former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, to use his office improperly, accepting gold bars, cash and a Mercedes in exchange for approving military aid to Egypt and disrupting a criminal investigation of several New Jersey businessmen.
Prosecutors said it was the Senator’s power that was up for sale with his wife acting as his go-between, demanding and collecting payment. Bob Menendez will begin serving an eleven-year prison sentence in June after being found guilty in January. His wife’s trial had been postponed so she could receive cancer treatments.
