Nadine Arslanian Menendez seeking new delay for trial
By: Katie Sobko
NorthJersey.com
USA Today Network - New Jersey
..... The saga of former Senator Bob Menendez's criminal trial continues in the new year. [2025] In legal filings made Tuesday [01/07/2025] Bary coburn, attorney for the former senator's wife and co-defendant Nadine Arslanian Menendez, again sought to delay her trial.
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In a letter to U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein of New York;s Southern District, Coburn asked for a further delay to Arslanian Menendez's trial, which is to begin February 5. [2025]
..... Coburn argued that because the former senator and co-defendants
Wael Hana and Fred Daibies are to be sentenced on Jnauray 29, [2025] it will "substantially exacerbate the difficulty of selecting an impartial jury, to the point where doing so likely will not be possible."
..... Coburn also submitted a letter relating to Arslanian Menendez's health. She was diagnosed with breast cancer last spring, [2024] and that precipitated the separation of her trial from Menendez, Hana and Daibes' trial.
..... In his letter to Stein, Coburn called for her trial to be postponed for another two th three months.
..... Menendez, Hana and Daibes are still waiting for a decision from Stein on their request for a new trial 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.
..... The former New Jersey senator, who resigned in August, [2024] was convicted after a nine-week trial in which he and three co-defendants faced indictments in a federal corruption and bribery case.
..... Menendez and Arslanian Menendez allegedly received, among other things, cash gold bars and a luxury car in exchange for his using his political influence.
Kate Sobko covers the New Jersey Statehouse. Email: sobko@northjersy.com.