Disgraced former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) spent a few of his closing hours as a free man Monday operating errands with a fellow convicted felon, his spouse Nadine.
The couple was noticed strolling aspect by aspect into an Englewood Cliffs, NJ credit score union hours earlier than the ex-senator is anticipated 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 couple of two-and-half hour drive from the previous Senate Overseas Relations Committee chairman’s Backyard State house.
Menendez was sentenced in January after being discovered responsible final July of buying and selling favors for international governments and businessmen in alternate 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 protected – touchdown the ex-senator the nickname “Gold Bar Bob” – and practically $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 below strain final August after being convicted.
