Earlier, news broke regarding the sentencing of disgraced former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), who was indicted in September 2023 on felony charges that included bribery, wire fraud, obstruction of justice, and being a foreign agent, all of which he was found guilty in July 2024.
Menendez, who has been under investigation on and off since 2006 and whose 2017 trial on similar charges resulted in a mistrial, had pleaded for leniency after prosecutors asked for 15 years but was sentenced on Wednesday to 11 years by US District Court Judge Sidney Stein, who did not mince words while handing the sentence down.
“Somewhere along the way, and I don’t know when it was, you lost your way – and working for the public good became working for your good,” Stein said. “What’s been the result? You lost your senate seat. You lost your chairmanship and you lost your good…
