Former Senator Bob Menendez, age 71, was sentenced to eleven years in a federal prison in the gold bar bribery and corruption case. It’s like a death sentence, given his age.
Menendez had pleaded with U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein for mercy, twice breaking down in tears.
“I have lost everything,” the New Jersey Democrat said after recounting actions he said he had taken to help others while in the Senate. He has since resigned.
“For a man who spent his entire life in public service, every day I am awake is a punishment,” said Menendez. He was chair of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee when he took the payoffs.
The judge said the evidence was overwhelming.
“Somewhere along the way, you became, I’m sorry to say, a corrupt politician,” Stein told him before handing down his sentence. According to the U.S. Attorney’s office, he also entered a forfeiture order for all of Menendez’s ill-gotten gains in the case, which totaled $992,188.10.
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If all the crooked Democrat (and a few Republican) politicians were convicted we would need a new maxi prison to house them all.
Humorously, if we could just label them as the traitors they are, and punish them as such (firing squad? hanging?) think of the savings to the tax payers.
The longer he stays the stronger the message to others !
Let this career corrupt politician rot in prison. About time he has to pay for his crimes.
He should go to jail.