NEW YORK — The wife of former Sen. Bob Menendez should serve at least seven years in prison for playing a pivotal role in a bribery scheme that put the New Jersey Democrat behind bars for 11 years, prosecutors told a judge Tuesday. Nadine Menendez, age 58, was convicted in April, a year after her husband and two New Jersey …
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After a three-month trial in which attorneys for then-New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez said it was his wife, Nadine, who was to blame for the cash and gold found in their Englewood Cliffs home, Menendez appears to be having a change of heart. In a letter to Judge Sidney Stein ahead of Nadine’s Sept. 11 sentencing, Bob Menendez wrote that …
Read More »NEW YORK (AP) — The wife of former Sen. Bob Menendez should serve at least seven years in prison for playing a pivotal role in a bribery scheme that put the New Jersey Democrat behind bars for 11 years, prosecutors told a judge Tuesday. Nadine Menendez, age 58, was convicted in April, a year after her husband and two New …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link The unexpected release of audio from Erik Menendez’s tightly controlled parole hearing last week nearly derailed Friday’s proceedings for his brother, Lyle, and infuriated his family members – who raised questions about the recording’s impact on the outcome and how it was released. The tumultuous session concluded with a California parole board denying parole for Lyle, …
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Erik and Lyle Menendez were denied parole by a California board this week after decades in prison for killing their parents in 1989 at their Beverly Hills mansion. During two days of hearings, the brothers were each questioned by panels of two commissioners and asked to speak with complete candor on the abuse they suffered in childhood, their mindsets leading …
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lyle Menendez was denied parole Friday by the same board that a day earlier rejected his brother Erik’s appeal for freedom after serving decades in prison for killing their parents in 1989 at their Beverly Hills mansion. The reason was the same: misbehavior behind bars. A panel of two commissioners denied Lyle Menendez parole for three years after …
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Access to the parole hearings this week for brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez was tightly controlled by state prison officials, but despite the efforts to limit outside interference and drama, the unexpected release of an audio recording nearly derailed Friday’s proceeding. The disclosure of an audio recording of Erik’s parole hearing, held Thursday, tossed his older brother Lyle’s hearing into …
Read More »LOS ANGELES (AP) — Erik and Lyle Menendez were denied parole by a California board this week after decades in prison for killing their parents in 1989 at their Beverly Hills mansion. During two days of hearings, the brothers were each questioned by panels of two commissioners and asked to speak with complete candor on the abuse they suffered in …
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SACRAMENTO — A day after his younger brother was denied release, Lyle Menendez also saw California parole officials reject his bid for freedom, ruling he will remain behind bars for now for the 1989 shotgun murders of his parents. The parole board grilled Menendez, 57, over his efforts to get witnesses to lie during his trials, the lavish shopping sprees he and …
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LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A California parole board decided to deny Lyle Menendez parole after he has spent nearly 30 years in prison for the 1989 murders of his parents, José and Kitty Menendez, when he was 21 years old. Lyle and his brother Erik Menendez were convicted of first-degree murder in 1996 during a retrial and sentenced to life …
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