JUST IN: Former Democrat Senator Sentenced To 11 Years In Prison

Disgraced former Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison after being convicted on bribery and corruption charges.

Menendez, who represented New Jersey, begged the judge for leniency before receiving his sentence.

“Your honor, you have before you a chastened man,” Menendez said, according to the New York Post.

“I am far from a perfect man, but I believe in my half-century of public service, I have done more good than bad,” he added.

According to reports, Menendez broke down in tears while pleading before U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein.

“You stood at the apex of our political system,” Stein said, according to ABC News.

“Somewhere along the way, you lost your way,” the judge added.

Disgraced ex-NJ Sen. Bob Menendez cries as he begs for leniency — but gets 11 years in prison for gold bar bribery scheme https://t.co/yNnBBD8ijd pic.twitter.com/0vkosLA8Yu

— New York Post (@nypost) January 29, 2025

From the New York Post:

The waterworks came before Manhattan federal Judge Sidney Stein handed the sentence to the three-term Democrat — who resigned in disgrace in August after a jury found him guilty of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in payola in exchange for protecting and enriching businessmen and foreign governments.

“Somewhere along the way, you became, I’m sorry to say, a corrupt politician,” Stein told the disgraced pol.

The former head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — tasked with approving massive sums of lethal military aid — did favors for Egypt and Qatar while go-betweens showered him and his wife, Nadine, with cash, gold bars, the luxury car, checks for a no-show job and payouts to a sham “consulting” firm, trial evidence revealed.

“What else can the love of my life do for you?” Nadine Menendez asked an Egyptian official while her international affairs honcho hubby smoked cigars and swigged red wine at a May 2019 meeting at Morton’s Steakhouse, an FBI agent who secretly observed the scene testified.

Agents who raided the Menendezes’ cluttered Englewood Cliffs house in June 2022 found 13 gold bars worth $150,000 tucked inside a bedroom safe. Nearly $500,000 in cash was spread out all over the house— including wads of bills totaling $14,500 piled into a pair of Timberland work boots, and cash-filled envelopes stuffed into the pockets of his official Senate jacket.

BREAKING: Former Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), 71, sentenced to 11 years in federal prison over bribery and corruption charges – NBC

The case surrounded Menendez selling his power in Washington for money, gold and a luxury car, per NBC. pic.twitter.com/UmP7JmO9hh

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 29, 2025

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Fox: Bob Menendez has been sentenced to 11 years in prison, pic.twitter.com/H3rOtsT0FK

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Per ABC News:

A jury found Menendez, 71, guilty on all 16 counts last year in his federal trial, becoming the first sitting member of Congress to be convicted of acting as a foreign agent. His children, Alicia and Rob, were in court to witness the sentencing.

“The fact that he was a public office holder who held a position of great public trust has to be taken into account,” Stein said as he explained how he calculated the sentence.

Ahead of his sentencing Wednesday afternoon, two New Jersey businessmen convicted of paying bribes to Menendez received lengthy prison sentences. Wael Hana was sentenced to eight years in prison and Fred Daibes to seven years.

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