Former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez has requested to delay the jail sentence he’s anticipated to obtain Wednesday whereas he appeals his conviction for promoting out his workplace for gold bars and different bribes.
Attorneys for the embattled former Backyard State pol urged a Manhattan federal choose to let him keep out of custody as he appeals, calling him a “septuagenarian who devoted half a century to public service.”
The attorneys urged Choose Stanley Stein to present the embattled Democrat — who resigned in shame in August — the good thing about the doubt due to his profession in politics.
“A lifelong public servant should not be forced to wait out such an appeal from the walls of a federal facility,” wrote legal professionals Adam Price and Avi Weitzman.
Menendez, 71, claims the slew of favors he was discovered to have performed for overseas governments and native businessmen don’t meet the US Supreme Courtroom’s excessive bar for “official acts.”
He’s set to listen to his destiny at a sentencing listening to Wednesday at 2 p.m.
Prosecutors with the US Lawyer’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York have requested that Menendez be jailed for greater than 15 years.
Menendez’s attorneys have requested the choose to condemn him to lower than two years in jail.
They argue that he’s already been punished considerably by the jury verdict, which brought on him to resign “in worldwide disgrace” and made him a “national punchline.”
The feds have countered that Menendez ought to get a far stiffer sentence than that, given his “naked greed” in accepting a “hoard of bribes.”
They’ve additionally identified the “rare gravity” of the case, on condition that Menendez was the primary US senator ever to be convicted of appearing as an unlawful overseas agent.
