Ex-Senator Menendez Gets 11 Years for Gold Bar Bribe Scheme
- Menendez, fighting back tears, says he has been ‘chastened’
- Two businessmen get terms of seven and eight years in prison
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Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison for acting as a foreign agent of Egypt and accepting gold bars and other bribes in what prosecutors said was perhaps the worst corruption case ever involving a US senator.
US District Judge Sidney Stein imposed the sentence on Menendez, 71, saying the New Jersey Democrat was motivated by greed and hubris after a half-century as an elected official. Menendez was convicted after a nine-week trial where prosecutors said he sold his influence to two corrupt businessmen, who received prison terms of seven and eight years earlier Wednesday.