Disgraced NJ senator’s wife sobs in court: “Bob is not man I thought he was” as judge sends her to prison Associated Press Published: September 11, 2025 Nadine Menendez, left, wife of former Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., arrives at Manhattan federal court, in New York, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

NEW YORK — Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife told a judge that her husband was “not the man I thought he was” before she was sentenced Thursday to 4½ years in prison for selling the powerful New Jersey politician’s influence in exchange for bribes of cash, gold bars and a luxury car.

Nadine Menendez breaks down in court, blames her husband

U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein sentenced Nadine Menendez, 58, after she was convicted in April of colluding from 2018 to 20

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