Former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) will be sentenced next month as planned after a failed bid to postpone his sentencing.
U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein denied Menendez’s request Monday to push back his scheduled Jan. 29, 2025, sentencing until his wife, Nadine Menendez, is through with her trial on similar charges. In their bid to move the date, Bob Menendez’s legal team argued that the jury hearing Nadine Menendez’s case should not be influenced by the outcome of her husband’s trial.
“In the modern age of social media and wall-to-wall news coverage, it is simply not realistic to expect that the jurors – even if instructed to avoid media coverage of the case or ‘related cases’ — could miss the news of a sentence actually being imposed on Nadine’s husband and co-defendant,” said Bob Menendez’s lawyer, Adam Fee.
“Put simply, the current timeline…
