Former American Senator Robert Mindez’s wife was sentenced to 4 and a half years’ imprisonment for helping her husband in a bribery scheme that includes cash, golden bars and Mercedes -Benz.
Nadine Mindez, 58, was convicted in April 15 charges, including bribery, after jury found that she had acted as a channel for her husband and Egyptian officials, transferring messages and arranging meetings.
“I put my life in his hands and hit me like the doll,” she told the judge crying before the verdict was issued on Thursday.
Her husband was convicted last year and was sentenced to 11 years in prison for the plan, which also led to his political fall. Prosecutors described it as indispensable for the conspiracy.
On Thursday morning, Minindiz cried with the judge.
“I know now that he is not my sincere. He is not the man I thought he was,” she told the judge, referring to her husband, News Correspondent in New York in court on X.
“It was one of the strongest men in the strongest country on earth and there was no way that led me or led me to do anything illegal, or so I thought.”
At the time of this scheme, Robert Menendes was the highest democrats of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a strong role that gave him a great impact on US foreign policy.
Prosecutors said that the spouses took advantage of his position in secretly to the interests of the Egyptian government in Washington. They have sought a penalty of at least seven years for Mrs. Mindez.
Instead, the boycott judge, Sydney Heten, sentenced her to 54 months in prison, saying that the prison sentence was important to deter others from similar crimes.
Judge Stein said, “People must understand that there are consequences,” Judge Stein said.
The judge decided that MENNDEZ will not have to start spending her punishment until next summer, July 10, so that she can complete the necessary medical procedures before she went behind bars, according to Associated Press.
Nadine Mindez was diagnosed with breast cancer after the original accusation regulations, and so she was standing late for her husband and after she underwent surgery. She was wearing a face mask and a pin for the court during procedures to enhance breast cancer.
The research at the FBI 2022 at the home of the couple in New Jersey discovered more than $ 100,000 (80,000 pounds) of gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash in envelopes or hidden in clothes.
Besides this evidence, federal prosecutors also showed text messages for the jury between the spouses and their partners, as well as Google’s research by the former Senator asking: “How many kilos of the value of gold?”
The accusation and the condemnation of the real estate developer in New Jersey, Will Hana, the Egyptian operator born in the Halal Certificate Company, was also convicted of their roles.
The insurance broker, Jose Orepe, admitted that he was guilty in March 2024 on charges of corrupt scheme.
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2025-09-11 16:59:00
