Menendez resigned from the Senate last summer after a Manhattan jury found him guilty of corruption. Prosecutors said he misused his power to help a trio of New Jersey businesspeo
Former Sen. Bob Menendez and two New Jersey businessmen, Fred Daibes and Wael Hana, will be sentenced on federal bribery and corruption charges.
Prosecutors recommended that the New Jersey Democrat receive at least 15 years in prison after being found guilty last summer on 16 counts.
A federal judge has rejected a bid by former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez to get his conviction on bribery charges thrown out.
Prosecutors have asked a judge to give the Democrat 15 years behind bars for crimes that include acting as an agent of the Egyptian government.
Former Sen. Bob Menendez is set to be sentenced Wednesday in New York in a sweeping federal corruption case, where the 71-year-old former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will seek to avoid a lengthy prison term.
A federal judge has rejected a bid by former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez to get his conviction on bribery charges thrown out.
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez faces the possibility of a long prison term when he is sentenced Wednesday for selling his once-considerable clout in Washington for gold bars, a luxury car and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash bribes.
Menendez was convicted in July on corruption charges after an FBI raid in 2022 uncovered $150,000 in gold bars and $480,000 in cash at his home. Prosecutors say the money came from bribes by three New Jersey businessmen seeking his influence to protect their interests and profit.
Bob Menendez of New Jersey to spend the next 15 ... didn’t even bother to try to hide the evidence. When FBI agents raided his home in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, they found $150,000 in ...
Bob Menendez, 71, was found guilty on all 16 counts in his federal trial, becoming the first sitting member of Congress to be convicted of acting as a foreign agent.