Disgraced former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) spent a few of his ultimate hours as a free man Monday working errands with a fellow convicted felon, his spouse Nadine.
The couple was noticed strolling facet by facet into an Englewood Cliffs, NJ credit score union hours earlier than the ex-senator is predicted to report back to a Pennsylvania federal jail to start serving an 11-year sentence for bribery and corruption.
Menendez, 71, will do his time on the Federal Correctional Establishment Schuylkill in Minersville, Pa.
The medium safety facility, which has an adjoining minimal safety satellite tv for pc camp, homes greater than 1,200 inmates and is a few two-and-half hour drive from the previous Senate Overseas Relations Committee chairman’s Backyard State dwelling.
Menendez was sentenced in January after being discovered responsible final July of buying and selling favors for international governments and businessmen in trade for money, gold bars and even a Mercedes-Benz convertible.
Nadine, 58, was discovered responsible of federal corruption fees in April for her function within the sprawling bribery scheme.
Federal brokers who raided the Menendezes’ cluttered Englewood Cliffs home in June 2022 discovered 13 gold bars value $150,000 tucked inside a bed room secure – touchdown the ex-senator the nickname “Gold Bar Bob” – and almost $500,000 in money stuffed in jackets, boots and envelopes all around the home.
Menendez did favors for Egypt and Qatar whereas go-betweens showered him and Nadine with the bribes, trial proof revealed.
Nadine, who has but to be sentenced, may additionally face a long time behind bars.
Menendez, who twice voted to question President Trump throughout his first time period, has reportedly been angling for a pardon from the commander in chief as he prepares to move to jail.
Menendez has repeatedly sworn his innocence however resigned from the Senate beneath stress final August after being convicted.
