Menendez trial postponed again
Ex-senator's wife cites cancer, his sentencing
By: Kriste Cattafi
and Katie Sobko
NorthJersey.com
USA Today Network - New Jersey
..... Former Senator Bob Menendez's wife bribery and corruption trial was postponed again and will begin in March [2025] after a physician treating her for breast cancer wrote a letter seeking another postponement to the U.S. District Court in the Southern District Court of New York.
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Nadine Arslanian Menendez faces bribery and corruption charges similar to those of which her husband and three New Jersey businessmen were found guilty in July. [2024]
..... The former New Jersey senator, who resigned in August, [2024] was convicted after a nine-week trial in which he and the thee co-defendants faced indictments in a corruption and bribery case brought by prosecutors in the Southern District. it was the second time in six years that Menendez faced bribery charges.
..... Menendez and Arslanian Menendez allegedly received cash, gold bars and a luxury care in exchange for his using his political influence.
..... Menendez and his co-defendants - Wael Hana, Fred, Daibes and Jose Uribe - were part of a bribery scheme. They are scheduled for sentencing on Wednesday. [01/29/2025]
..... Arslanian Menendez's attorney requested the February 5 [2025] trial be adjourned nil March 18. [2025] The prosecution took no position after reviewing the sealed document form her doctor.
..... "No further adjournments of the trial date will be granted absent a clear showing of medial necessity," U.S. District Judge Sidney Stern wrote in an order
..... Arslanian Menendez, who was to be tried alongside her husband last spring and summer [2024] saw her trial postponed because of a medical condition, later revealed by her husband as breast cancer. She requested the latest delay earlier this month. [01/2025]
..... In a letter to Stein, her attorney Bary Coburn asked for a further delay beyond the February 5 [2025] state date, arguing that because the former senator and co-defendants Wael Hana and Fred Daibes are to be sentenced on January 29, [2025]
it will impartial jury, to the point where doing so likely will not be possible."
..... Coburn also submitted a letter at the time relating to Arslanian Menendez's health. She was diagnosed with breast cancer last sprig, [2024] and that precipitated the separation of her trial from Menendez, Hana and Daibes' trail.
..... In the letter to Stein, Coburn called for her tail to be postponed for another two to three months.
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Menendez , Hana and Daiibes saw a second request for a new trail denied last week after the office of the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York discovered that it had uploaded evidence to the jury, that should have been excluded. This was the second time the prosecution discovered an error with evidence on the jury's laptop. Uribe enter an agreement with prosecutors last year [2024] and testified at the trial of Menendez, Hana and Daibes last summer. [2024]