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Menendez 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 Cuban Democratic senator Robert «Bob» Menéndez, who became one of the most influential politicians in Washington, went to jail on Tuesday to serve an 11-year sentence for corruption and bribery, official sources reported. Son of Cuban immigrants who arrived in the United States before the revolution, the 71-year-old former congressman entered Schuylkill prison in the town of Minersville, Pennsylvania, about 226 kilometers east of New York…
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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.
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