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Lawyers for wife of former US Sen. Bob Menendez request 1-year prison sentence
Lawyers argue Nadine Menendez's breast cancer treatment warrants a reduced sentence of one year and a day instead of eight years for bribery involving $400,000, citing health risks.
- Lawyers for Nadine Menendez asked the judge to impose one year and a day instead of the eight years the federal court's probation office recommended, with sentencing scheduled next month for her April conviction.
- Prosecutors say the bribery scheme spanned from 2018 until about a year after the 2022 FBI raid in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, involving three New Jersey businessmen and about $400,000.
- The defense also emphasized that Nadine Menendez's breast cancer treatment and additional surgery mean lengthy incarceration could be a death sentence, and lawyers rejected prosecutors' portrayal of her as a "vixen".
- Prosecutors said they will file their sentencing recommendation later, noting former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is serving an 11-year sentence, underscoring the case's seriousness.
- Her defense framed her life as marked by men who exploited her, while prosecutors say Nadine Menendez facilitated bribes to the senator around when they began dating before marrying in the fall of 2020.
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Lawyers for wife of former US Sen. Bob Menendez request 1-year prison sentence
Lawyers for the wife of former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez say she should be sentenced to a year and a day in prison rather than the eight years recommended by the federal court's probation office.
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