Bob Menendez begins his 11-year sentence
By: Katie Sobko
and Kristie Cattafi
NorthJersey.com
USA Today Network - New Jersey
..... Former U.S. Senator Bob Menendez began his 11-year-prison sentence June 17 [2025] by reporting to Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill in Minersville, Pennsylvania.
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Menendez was found guilty on multiple federal bribery and corruption charges in January. [2025]
..... His last hopes of staying out of prison were foiled when the United States Co ruts of Appeals denied his request for bail pending appeals last week. [06/12/2025]
..... U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein of the Southern District of New York first denied requests for bail from Menendez and co-defendants Fred Daibies and Wael Hana in April. [2025
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"After a nine-week trial involving nearly 40 witnesses and more than 3,000 exhibits and extensive pre- and post-trial motion practices, Menendez has failed to identify a substantial question that, if determined in his favor, 'is likely to result in reversal or an order for a new trail on all counts on which improvement has been imposed,'" Stein wrote in his decision. "Hana and Daibes have failed to identify a substantial question of law or fact raise by their appeals."
..... The state of Menendez's sentence comes just days after his wife and co-defendant Nadine Arlanian Menendez filed documents to request a new trial due to the "blatant violation of her Sixth amendment right to counsel of her choice."
..... She was found guilty in April [2025] on 15 counts of bribery and fraud charges. Her trial was separated from those of her co-defendants due to her breast cancer diagnosis. She is set to be sentenced in September. [2025]
..... Two of the other Menendez co-defendants, businessmen Hana and Daibes, have been serving their time at FCI Fairton prison in South Jersey.
..... The federal indictment against the group was first unsealed in September 2023 and was updated with superseding indictments three times - in October of that year [2023] and in January and March 2024.
..... Menendez, his wife and three New Jersey businessmen - Hana, Daibes and Jose Uribe - were charged with orchestrating a bribery scheme. Menendez and his wife received, among other things, cash gold bars and a luxury car in exchange for the use of his political influence.
..... Uribe eventually entered a plea agreement with prosecutors, entering a guilty plea and testifying against his co-defendants in court.
..... The former senator was sentenced to 11 years in prison, Hana more than eight years, and Daibies seven years. Daibes was fined $1.75 million; Hana was fined $1.3 million. All three are appealing.
.... Uribe was supposed to be sentenced on April 24. [2025] Given the delayed start of Arslanian Menendez's trial, he will now be sentenced on October 9. [2025] according to a plea agreement, Uribe could face up to 95 years in prison.