Bob
Menendez Got
11 Years
Sentence Now
Nadine Amid
Trial Does
FARA Research
by
Matthew Russell Lee
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 27 – Amid reports of
investigation against Sen.
Robert Menendez for taking
gold bars, Inner City Press'
sources on September 21 it to
expect on Friday, September 22
an appearance in Federal court
in Manhattan by Menendez and
his wife Nadine Arslanian, now
facing trial alone. This
scoop
was true.
Later a
superseder was unveiled,
including charges of bribes to
act for Qatar.
On January 10
Menendez filed a motion to
dismiss, on Patreon here
On February 1,
Judge Stein granted some
unsealing - including of some
of the material in the vault
which Inner City Press
requested. Order here.
Jump cut:
Menendez et al were convicted;
Inner City Press published a
book, here.
Inner City Press
live tweeted on January 29 as
Daibes got eight years, Hana
97 months - and Bob Menendez
11 years, after which he told
the press that "Trump was
right" about political witch
hunt.
On February 14
Nadine's lawyer wrote in
raising issues about
"self-authenticating"
documents, on Patreon here
On February 27
they were back, with 90
objections and arguments about
Uribe's lawyer, Nadine's car
crash and an email about
garlic, thread here.
On March 7,
another conference at which
Coburn contested Cellebrite (thread)
After a long jury
selection, late on March 21
the jury was selected - them
defense peremptory challenges
questions by the AUSA, thread
On March 24
despite when Bob Menendez's
counsel said in asking to
delay his sentencing, Bob was
nowhere to be seen...
But on March 25,
he and his co-defendant got
surrender delayed to May 19:
"ORDER as to Robert Menendez,
Wael Hana, Fred Daibes.
Defendants shall surrender for
service of their sentences at
the institution designated by
the Bureau of Prisons on or
before 2:30 pm on May 19,
2025.
On March 27
Nadine Menendez' lawyer wrote
in "in preliminary response to
the Court’s Order at the end
of the trial day today,
concerning whether asserting a
FARA exemption is an
affirmative defense, requiring
pretrial notice...I have not
yet located authority for the
proposition that asserting a
FARA exemption is an
affirmative defense in this
context, but I am continuing
to research this issue."
Filing on Patreon here
More
including analysis
on X for Subscribers here
and Substack here
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