Former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez has asked to delay the prison sentence he’s expected to receive Wednesday while he appeals his conviction for selling out his office for gold bars and other bribes.
Lawyers for the once powerful Garden State pol urged a Manhattan federal judge to let him stay out of custody as he appeals, calling him a “septuagenarian who devoted half a century to public service.”
The attorneys urged Judge Stanley Stein to give the embattled Democrat — who resigned in disgrace in August — the benefit of the doubt because of his career in politics.
“A lifelong public servant should not be forced to wait out such an appeal from the walls of a federal facility,” wrote lawyers Adam Fee and Avi Weitzman.
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Disgraced ex-NJ senator ‘Gold Bar Bob’ Menendez asks to delay prison stint as he appeals bribery conviction
- by: Ben Kochman
- 01.29.25
- Source:
NY Post
- 01/29/2025
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