Menandage, once a powerful person in the US foreign policy, was found guilty of selling influence to the Egyptian government.
Former United States Senator Robert Menandez, who represented New Jersey, has been sentenced to 11 years in jail for bribery schemes, including Egypt to receive gold bars in exchange for favor.
On Wednesday, in sad testimony, Menandez told a Manhattan federal court that he had lost everything as a result of corruption allegations, except for his wife’s support.
Democrat, a Democrat, said, “For someone who has spent his entire life in public service, every day I am awake, there is a punishment.”
Manandez was once a powerful person in American politics, who presided over the Criminal Foreign Relations Committee.
He also gained a reputation as a vocal supporter of Hawkish foreign policies: for example, he broke with the Democratic rank to oppose the 2015 deal, which limiting Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for restrictions to restrictions Will give
But in July 2024, a court found him guilty of acting from the Egyptian government as a foreign agent and working as a business effect for cash, gold and even a Mercedes-Benz car.
“You were successful, powerful. You stood at the top of our political system, ”said US District Judge Sydney Stein sentenced on Wednesday.
“Somewhere on the way somewhere – and I don’t know when it was – you lost your way, and working for the public became working for your good.”
Menandage appealed to the court for Mercy, citing his record in public service, for his share.
“You really don’t know the man you are going to punish,” Menandez told Stein in the Nert Room.
“Your respect, I am far away from an ideal person. I have made more than my part of mistakes and bad decisions, ”he said. “I have done much better than bad. I ask you to do justice in that context. ,
The judge said at one point that Menandez had become a “corrupt politician”.
71-year-old menndez served 18 years in the Senate-and earlier, to stay in the House of Representatives to a sudden stay in 2024 before his political career.
In August, amidst the scam of his corruption case, he resigned. The decision came a month after being found guilty on 16 hooliganism charges.
The prosecutors wrote in the filing of the January 9 court, “Menandage, who took an oath to represent the United States and New Jersey state, instead kept his high office for sale in exchange for this hoard of bribery.” He requested a 15 -year jail sentence.
Earlier on Wednesday, Menandez’s two co-reporters, New Jersey businessmen Fred Debs and Well Hana were sentenced to more than seven and eight years of prison respectively.
A corruption test for Nadin, the wife of Menandez, is going to start from 18 March.
