Sen. The judge presiding over Bob Menendez’s bribery trial has indefinitely delayed the trial of New Jersey Democrat Nadine Menendez’s wife.
“This case is adjourned,” said U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein wrote in a summary judgment signed Monday.
Nadine Menendez’s attorney, Barry Coburn, declined to comment on the delay in her trial. She and her husband were accused in an indictment last year of trading hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold bars and political favors in cash from three New Jersey businessmen, but her trial was delayed after she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
The judge issued a ruling against the senator on Tuesday afternoon, finding him guilty in the case, after the judge ordered his trial postponed indefinitely. He faces sentencing in October.
In May, Menendez released a statement about his wife’s health, saying, “Nadine has grade 3 breast cancer that will require a mastectomy. We are certainly concerned about the severity and advanced stage of the disease.”
His attorneys, Adam Fee and Avi Weitzman, said in a statement Tuesday, “His wife’s health is a high priority, and we are pleased that she is being given the time she needs to focus on her treatment and recovery.”
Nadine Menendez’s attorney wrote in a court filing in June that she “had medical equipment implanted in her body and was in severe, chronic pain.”
He added at the time, “We ask the press and the public to give her the time, space and privacy to deal with this challenging medical condition as she undergoes surgery and recovers.”
The trial of her husband and two co-defendants began in May, and jurors began deliberations in the case on Friday. The husband and wife, who dated in 2018 and married in 2020, have both pleaded not guilty.
