Disgraced New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife Nadine threw him under the bus as she was sentenced to prison Thursday for her role in the couple’s cartoonishly corrupt scheme — painting herself as a victim of his cunning manipulations.

“I put my life in his hands and he strung me like a puppet,” Nadine Menedez said through tears as she pleaded for forgiveness from Manhattan federal Judge Sidney Stein.

“The blindfold is off. I now know he is not my savior. He is not the man I thought he was,” she said.

Disgraced New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife Nadine threw him under the bus as she was sentenced to prison Thursday for her role in the couple’s cartoonishly corrupt scheme — painting herself as a victim of his cunning manipulations. Robert Miller

But Stein said he didn’t believe the

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