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Nadine Menendez is denied bail while appeal is pending

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

..... Nadine Arlanian Menendez must report to prison in July, [2026] after a federal appeals court on June 9 [2026] denied her request to stay out on bail while she challengers her conviction.
..... Arlanian Menendez, the 59-year-old wife of former U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, is scheduled to begin serving her sentence on July 10. [2026]
..... She was convicted in federal court in Manhattan as part of a wide-ranging corruption case that prosecutors said featured bribery, extortion and obstruction of justice in a multilevel scheme that involved trading envelopes of cash, gold bars and a new Mercedes-Benz for official act s that benefited Oatar and Egypt.
..... A notice of appeal for her conviction and sentence was filed weeks after she was sentenced.
..... Three judges for the United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit denied the motion on June 9. [2026]
.... Her bail request was first denied in April [2026 by U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein of the Southern District of New York.
..... Arslanian Menendez was sentenced September 11 [2025] to more than four years - 54 months - in federal prison for her alleged part in the bribery and corruption scandal. She was also order to forfeit $922,188.
..... Menedez, Arslanian Menendez and three New Jersey businessmen - Wael Hana, Fred Daibes and Jose Uribe - were found guilty of orchestrating a bribery scheme. Menendez and his wife allegedly reprieved gifts in exchange for his political influence.
..... 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 and again in January and March 2024.
..... The former senator was sentenced to 11 years in prison, Hana got more than eight years and was fined $1.3 million, and Daibes received seven years in prison and was fiend $1.75 million. All three are appealing and are currently in prison serving their sentences.
..... Uribe, the star witness in Menendez's federal corruption and bribery trial was sentenced on October 9, 2025, to no jail time after cooperating with federal prosecutors and pleading guilty to federal charges.

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