NEW YORK – The former New Jersey senator, Bob Menéndez, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Wednesday afternoon in a lower court in Manhattan.
Menéndez, 71, was condemned last July in 16 charges of bribery, extortion, conspiracy and obstruction of justice.
Tax I had been asking Menéndez to turn 15citing “the severity of the crimes of the accused, the immeasurable damage that they have caused to public trust and the need to deter others to participate in such heinous abuses.”
The defense had said that Menéndez should have received less than two years in prison, saying that his client suffered a financial and professional ruin and deserved piety due to his age.
The American district judge Sidney H. Stein got more put more with the government.
“At some point, you have become, I’m sorry, a corrupt politician,” Stein said.
Before learning his destiny, sources close to the former senator told CBS News New York that he had been praying a lot and spending time with his son, daughter and grandchildren. When he addressed the judge during the sentence, Menéndez was excited, saying that the trial shattered his work and what he represents, and harmed his family and the community he represented.
“His honor, you have a punished man before you,” Menéndez said. “You really don’t know the man who is about to prayer.”
Menéndez talked about his education, how was the first in his family to go to the University and the Faculty of Law, and listed several things he did for the members of the community. He said about the revealed things about him in the trial: “Nothing approaches what I am.”
“I have dedicated my whole life to the service of others,” he added. “I am far from being a perfect man, but I believe in my half century of public service, I have done rather than bad.”
Menéndez, who had served as an American senator since 2006, resigned last August. His seat was Andy Kim.
Menéndez acted as a foreign agent for Egypt, prosecutors say
Federal prosecutors say Menéndez He acted as a foreign agent for the Egyptian government and abused his powerful position in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The researchers registered their home in 2022 and found More than a dozen gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cashthat officials say he had accepted as bribes.
Menéndez denied having violated his public oathand his lawyers He tried to make his conviction be dismissed and His sentence was delayedBut a federal judge denied both requests.
Coacusado Daibes is 7 years old, Hana gets 8+
Coacusado Fred Daibes received a period of seven years in the morning. Daibes cried when he asked the judge for mercy, not by himself but for his autistic son who cares. The judge said he understands that Daibes got up from poverty and is known for helping others, but said: “There is a dark edge in what you have done.”
The government was asking for nine years, but the judge granted a variation due to good works and the age of Daibes.
Coacusado Wael Hana received eight years and one month in prison. The judge described the evidence against him, “very, very substantial.”
Prosecutors were looking for 10 years.
Daibes and Hana must be delivered to the authorities on April 4.
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