Former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) will be sentenced next month as planned after a failed bid to postpone his sentencing.

U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein denied Menendez’s request Monday to push back his scheduled Jan. 29, 2025, sentencing until his wife, Nadine Menendez, is through with her trial on similar charges. In their bid to move the date, Bob Menendez’s legal team argued that the jury hearing Nadine Menendez’s case should not be influenced by the outcome of her husband’s trial.