Overview

• Menendez reported to the medium-security Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill on June 17 to start his 11-year sentence for trading political favors for gold bars, cash and a luxury convertible.
• A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals denied his bid for bail pending appeal of his bribery and corruption convictions.
• Trial evidence included the discovery of $150,000 in gold bars and nearly $480,000 in cash during a 2022 FBI raid on his Englewood Cliffs home.
• His wife, Nadine Menendez, was convicted in April for her role in the same scheme and faces sentencing in September.
• Menendez maintains his innocence and has publicly sought a pardon from President Donald Trump.