Overview

• Federal prosecutors told the court Nadine Menendez played a pivotal role in a bribery scheme and asked for a minimum seven-year prison term.
• Their filing says she put her husband’s office up for sale in exchange for cash, gold, a luxury car, paychecks for a fake job, and promises to influence foreign relations and disrupt investigations.
• Menendez, 58, was convicted in April after a separate trial delayed for breast cancer treatment, and she now faces sentencing in Manhattan federal court.
• Her defense seeks 12 months and one day with home confinement, calling her a first-time offender with extensive trauma and low risk of reoffending.
• Medical letters, including from a former Bureau of Prisons physician, argue prison would impede needed cancer care, while Bob Menendez wrote from prison urging the judge to consider her trauma and expressing regret for her portrayal as "money hungry" at his trial.