Feds want disgraced ex-NJ Sen. Bob Menendez jailed for at least 15 years in ‘gold bar’ corruption case

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Posted on 01/11/2025 2:52:07 AM PST by Libloather

Disgraced former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez should be thrown behind bars for at least 15 years for his “naked greed” in accepting a “hoard of bribes” — including gold bars, cash and gifts, federal prosecutors said.

The 71-year-old Democrat is slated to be sentenced on Jan. 29 after he was convicted in July of accepting bribes in exchange for advancing the the interests of three Garden State businessmen and the governments of Egypt and Qatar.

The case is one of “rare gravity” — and “the first ever in which a Senator — or any other person — has been convicted of serving as a foreign agent while being a public official,” the feds wrote in a court filing late Thursday.

Menendez promised to “influence national security, including the country’s provision of large quantities of lethal military aid,” and gave up “sensitive non-public information that could put at risk US and foreign nationals serving at an embassy abroad” — among other quid pro quo arrangements, the documents claim.

The onetime chairman of the powerful Senate Committee on Foreign Relations “put his high office up for sale in exchange for this hoard of bribes,” prosecutors wrote in the papers filed in Manhattan federal court.

“The gravity of each of these promised abuses of power is only underscored by the naked greed that motivated them,” the court papers say.

Menendez, the feds have said, pocketed gold bars worth $150,000, hundreds of thousands in cash and a Mercedes convertible in the scheme — which also led to bribery and corruption charges against his wife, Nadine Menendez, and the three businessmen.

Nadine is currently slated to go on trial in February — though she is awaiting a judge’s decision on her bid to postpone the case by a few months in hopes...

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1 posted on 01/11/2025 2:52:07 AM PST by Libloather

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