6 events in Passaic County with a date

Nadine Menendez's sentencing delayed until September 11

By: Kristie Cattafi
NorthJersey.com
USA Today Network - New Jersey

..... Former Senator Menendez's wife and co-conspirator Nadine Arslanian Menendez, will now be sentenced on federal bribery charges in September. [2025]
..... Arslanian Menendez was found guilty on 15 counts after a separate trial concluded April 21. [2025]
..... Initially scheduled for sentencing on June 12 [2025] days before her daughter's wedding in Massachusetts - Arslanian Menendez will be sentenced in federal court in lower Manhattan on September 11. [2025]
..... the federal indictment against the pair 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 - Wael Hana, Fred Daibes and Jose Uribe - were charged with orchestrating a bribery scheme. Menendez and his wife allegedly received, among other things, cash gold bars and a luxury car in exchange for the use of his political influence.
.... Arlanian Menendez was initially supported to be tired alongside Menendez, Daibes and Hana, but her trial was delayed because she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
..... Initially referred to by the court only as a "serious medical condition," the diagnosis was revealed by her husband during his trail.
..... Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison, Hana more than eight years and Daibles seven years. Daibes was fined $1.75 million; Hana was fined $1.3 million. All three are appealing their cases.
.... Daibes and Hana were scheduled to report to prison on May 19, Menendez was granted an extension to travel with his wife to her daughter's wedding. he will now report to prison on June 17. [2025]
...... Arslanian Menendez's attorney Barry Coburn originally asked for a sentencing extension on April 28, [2025] saying he was "exhausted" after trial and working not only on renewing a motion for an acquittal for Arslanian Menendez but on another case involving a juvenile in Virginia where an extension request was denied.
..... "It is not that I need the additional time to write my presentment submission, but the individuals who will be gathering information and preparing reports are busy professional who need time to provide material that will be complete and useful to the Court," Coburn wrote in a letter to U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein on May 15. [2025]
..... Stein approved the September 11 [2025] sentencing a day later and set a new timetable for sentencing submissions due in August. [2025]

Uribe will be sentenced in September [2025]

..... As Arslanian Menendez's trial unfolded, Uribe's attorney requested a delay in his sentencing, which was also approved.
..... Uribe one of the three New Jersey businessmen who were originally indicted alongside Menendez and his wife, was supposed to be sentenced on April 24. [2025] Given the delayed start of Arslanian Menendez's trial, he will now be sentenced on September 4. [2025]
..... Uribe pleaded guilty to seven charges and agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors. he spent several days over the summer [2024] testifying against Menendez and admitted to bribing him.
..... According to a plea agreement, Uribe could face up to 95 years in prison, through he could win leniency because of his cooperation with federal prosecutors and his testimony agonist the other defendants.
..... During his testimony in the nine-week trial last year, [2024] Uribe admitted to bribing the senator with the help of his wife.
..... "Have you ever committed a federal crime?" federal prosecutor Lara Pomerantz asked during the former senator's trail.
..... "Yes, I have," Uribe responded.
..... "Does that include bribery of a public official?" she asked.
..... "Yes, I did, " Uribe said.
..... During his testimony, Uribe said he wanted to stop the New Jersey Attorney Gen real from prosecuting his friend Elvis Parra, a trucking company owner who had been indicted on insurance fraud charges. He also wanted to derail the expanding investigations into the company, Prestige Trucking Express, that Parra created afterward with his business partner Bienvenido Hernandez, as will as Uribe's insurance brokerage, Phoenix Risk Management. Phoenix secured insurance for both Parra's firms.
..... "I agreed with Nadine Menendez and other people to provide a car for Nadine in order to get the power and influence of Mr. Menendez," Uribe said.

HOME