Source: The Hill
“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, last fall. This 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 Menendez, accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, gold bars and luxury cars from three New Jersey businessmen. … As the powerful chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Menendez signed off on several multimillion-dollar weapons sales to Egypt, which he repeatedly asked his wife to relay to the businessmen, who then passed on the intel to Egyptian officials, between 2018 and 2022.” (01/29/25)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5110896-bob-menendez-sentenced