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Her husband may be threatening to throw her under the bus in their bribery trial.
But daily life appeared to continue as normal for Nadine Menendez on Wednesday as she was spotted gardening at their New Jersey home.
DailyMail.com captured the wife of the scandal-hit Democratic Senator Bob outside the house tending to the plants and wearing yellow Marigold gloves.
The 57-year-old also took out the trash, while wearing sweatpants and heels, and at one point used an empty Coke Zero box to hide her face from the cameras.
She was spotted hours after bombshell court documents were released suggesting her husband, 70, may blame her for the widespread corruption scandal that includes gold bars, piles of cash and favors for the Egyptian government.
The New Jersey Senator and his wife are accused of receiving lavish gifts - including luxury cars and stacks of money - as part of a bribery plot to help the Egyptian government and businessmen facing their own criminal investigations.
Nandine Menendez does gardening at her New Jersey home, hours after court documents were released suggesting her Democratic senator husband Bob may blame her for their alleged bribery scheme
DailyMail.com captured the wife of the scandal-hit Democratic Senator Bob outside the house tending to the plants while wearing yellow Marigold gloves
Parts of a court filing by lawyers for the Democrat were unsealed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday after some news organizations insisted that public disclosure was required.
Bob Menendez's lawyers had redacted the documents, claiming that the sentences revealed trial strategy that could bias the jury pool.
According to the unsealed passages, Menendez plans to testify about what he believes were exculpatory communications with Nadine if he decides to take the witness stand in his defense.
'While these explanations, and the marital communications on which they rely, will tend to exonerate Senator Menendez by demonstrating the absence of any improper intent on Senator Menendez´s part, they may inculpate Nadine by demonstrating the ways in which she withheld information from Senator Menendez or otherwise led him to believe that nothing unlawful was taking place,' the lawyers wrote.
As they sought to sever the trials of the senator and his wife, the lawyers said they planned to assert at trial that Sen. Menendez lacked the knowledge necessary to commit a crime and did not agree to any of the conspiracies outlined in the indictment against him.
The 57-year-old was spotted hours after bombshell court documents were released suggesting her husband might throw her under the bus
The 57-year-old also took out the trash, while wearing sweatpants and heels, and at one
