Former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez (D) has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for corruption.
Seeing as how people jailed for federal crimes typically serve 85% of their sentence, this would have him in jail for about 9 years and 4 months.
Seems about right to me:
Former U.S. senator Bob Menendez on Wednesday was sentenced to 11 years in prison for operating what prosecutors called one of the most brazen corruption schemes in the country’s history, with bribes totaling nearly $1 million in cash, checks, gold bars and a Mercedes-Benz.
The longtime New Jersey lawmaker was convicted of all charges last year in Manhattan federal court, forcing his resignation after nearly 18 years in the Senate and a half-century in politics. A jury found that Menendez took bribes from three New Jersey businessmen who sought his help quashing criminal investigations and securing lucrative deals with officials from Egypt and Qatar. He is appealing.
Menendez, 71, is the first public official in the United States to be convicted of acting as a foreign agent. Text messages and emails showed how he maneuvered to get U.S. military aid and sensitive, unclassified information to Egypt between 2018 and 2022 from his powerful perch as the highest-ranking Democratic member and later chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
It took long enough.
I know that corruption is common in the toxic waste Garden State, but this has been an open secret for well over a decade.
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