Bob Menendez sentenced to 11 years in prison following first-of-its-kind conviction

The Hill ^ | 01/29/2025 | Ella Lee and Taylor Giorno

[ChicagoConservative27]

Former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in prison for trading bribes for political favors.

Federal prosecutors levied allegations of bribery, extortion and acting as a foreign agent against Menendez, then-chair of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in fall 2023.

Last summer, he became the first public official ever convicted of acting as a foreign agent while in office.

A New York jury found the senator and his wife, Nadine, accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, gold bars and luxury cars from three New Jersey businessmen.

In exchange, Menendez protected the halal meat certification monopoly of one of the businessmen, Wael Hana, in exchange for lucrative kickbacks, and intervened in separate criminal cases involving the other two men, Jose Uribe and Fred Daibes.

[ChicagoConservative27]

11 years is a long time at his age

[albie]

More winning

[FlingWingFlyer]

One of Selena Gomez’s “people”. “Don’t Cry For Me, Selena.”

[thinden]

11 years is a long time at his age

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good case precedent set..........

[Sarah Barracuda]

Guy’s a schmuck but the Dems decided he was not worth saving, he was not communist enough for them, so they threw him to the wolves to say “See no one is above the law not even a fellow Dem”

[Lee25]

Unlucky and stupid guy. To my knowledge there are a lot f democrats in congress who are as corrupt as he is and got aways with millions.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Federal prison?

[blackdog]

Shades of Torricelli. New Jersey sure is corrupt.

[blackdog]

Nothing for the wife?

[Fledermaus]

Hillary did the same with the Clinton “Foundation”.

[MNJohnnie]

So when do Murkowski, etc who been acting as foreign agents for Greenland and other non American interests get arrested

[alternatives?]

9.35 years minimum. He is 71 years old so 80 when he gets out without a pardon. I thought Biden would pardon or commute to a limited number of years. Hard to do before sentence.

[StormEye]

Let him do a year or three in prison then perhaps Trump
could show mercy and commute his sentence. Maybe.
But no pardon.

[Lazamataz]

11 years is a long time at ANY age.

[bigbob]

He paid attention to those ads about having gold in his IRA

[rollo tomasi]

1 down, about 450 other active Congresscritters to go.

[ChicagoConservative27]

haha

[bankwalker]

still waiting for corzine to be prosecuted ...

[immadashell]

“Gold Bar Bob”

[mcenedo]

Menendez was ordered to report to prison by June 6.

90+ days for what?

I'll believe it when I see it.

He said he would appeal.

His wife's trial was delayed for health reasons.