US EditionMenendez to Report to Prison for Start of 11-Year Corruption Sentence
- Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez began serving an 11-year prison term on Tuesday at a federal facility located in Minersville, Pennsylvania.
- Menendez was convicted in July of accepting bribes from three New Jersey businessmen and acting as a foreign agent for Egypt, leading to his resignation last year.
- His bribery scheme included receiving over $480,000 in cash, $150,000 in gold bars, a luxury car, and favors benefiting foreign governments and local business owners.
- Menendez maintains his innocence, calling the case politically corrupted and hopes President Trump restores integrity to the system, while his appeals to remain free were denied.
- Nadine Menendez, his wife and co-defendant, was convicted in April of accepting bribes and faces sentencing on September 11, while the Senate Ethics Committee continues its investigation.
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Former Democratic Senator Begins 11-Year Federal Prison Sentence
Disgraced former New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez has officially reported to start his time in federal prison. After a last ditch attempt to avoid actual jail time was denied […] The post Former Democratic Senator Begins 11-Year Federal Prison Sentence appeared first on The Western Journal.
Disgraced Ex-Senator Bob Menendez Begins 11-Year Prison Sentence
Disgraced former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) reported to federal prison to begin his 11-year prison sentence on Tuesday, after being found guilty of 16 bribery and corruption charges last summer. The post Disgraced Ex-Senator Bob Menendez Begins 11-Year Prison Sentence appeared first on Breitbart.
Former Sen. Bob Menendez to begin serving 11-year sentence for accepting bribes of gold and cash
The federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that the New Jersey Democrat is in custody at the Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill in Minersville, Pennsylvania.
Rich in gold bars but poor in Trump pardons
For months, former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez has praised President Donald Trump. He has explicitly echoed Trump’s criticism of the president’s own criminal prosecutions, which Trump likes to describe, without evidence, as the political weaponization of the justice system.
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