A judge presiding over a bribery trial Senator Bob Menendez The trial of New Jersey Democrat Nadine Menendez’s wife and co-defendant, who is undergoing cancer treatment, has been postponed indefinitely, a court order showed Tuesday.
“This matter is adjourned,” U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein said in a brief ruling Monday, using the Latin and legal term, without giving a date.
Nadine Menendez’s attorney, Barry Coburn, declined to comment. Last year, she and her husband were indicted for allegedly trading hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold bullion and cash from three New Jersey businessmen, but the trial was delayed after she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Sen. Menendez released a statement in May saying, “Nadine is suffering from stage 3 breast cancer, which requires her to undergo a mastectomy. Of course, we are concerned about the seriousness and advanced stage of the disease.”
His attorneys, Adam Fee and Avi Weitzman, said in a statement Tuesday that “his highest priority is his wife’s health and we are pleased that he is being given time to focus on treatment and recovery.”
His lawyer wrote in a court filing in June that he had “medical equipment implanted in his body and was in severe, chronic pain.”
He added at the time: “We ask the press and public to give him the time, space and privacy to deal with this difficult medical condition during his surgery and recovery.”
The court for her husband and two other suspects began in May and the jury started discussions in the case of Friday. Both husband and wife pleaded not guilty.
The Menendez family began dating in 2018 and married in 2020.