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Bob Menendez sentenced to 11 years in prison in federal corruption, bribery trial
The former New Jersey senator will report to prison in June. After asking for leniency, the judge ultimately handed down a sentence of 11 years in his bribery conviction. Two co-conspirators were sentenced to 8 and 7 years, respectively. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.
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Ex-NJ Sen. Bob Menendez sentenced to 11 years in prison in bribery, corruption case
The prison sentence caps a stunning fall from power for New Jersey’s former senior senator. Bob Menendez rose from scrappy mayor of working class Union City all the way to chair of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But the bribery case that brought him down was overwhelming, with the now-infamous pictures of gold bars stashed in the disgraced senator’s...
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Ex-NJ Sen. Bob Menendez gets 11 years in prison for taking bribes, acting as foreign agent
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for his conviction for accepting bribes of gold and cash and acting as an agent of Egypt, crimes his own lawyer said earned him the nickname “Gold Bar Bob.” Judge Sidney H. Stein announced the sentence Wednesday after the Democrat tearfully addressed the judge, calling himself chastened...
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Judge set to sentence former Sen. Bob Menendez, who was convicted of taking bribes of cash and gold
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez faces the possibility of a long prison term when he is sentenced Wednesday for taking bribes of gold bars, a luxury car and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash. Prosecutors have asked a judge to give the Democrat 15 years behind bars for crimes that include acting as an agent of the Egyptian government....
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Judge rejects new trial for ex-Sen. Bob Menendez over tainted laptop
A federal judge has rejected a bid by former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez to get his conviction on bribery charges thrown out.
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Prosecutors seek 15 years for former NJ Sen. Bob Menendez after bribery conviction
Prosecutors called for the lengthy prison term for the 71-year-old New Jersey Democrat in papers filed in Manhattan federal court late Thursday.
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Menendez lawyers seek lenient sentence, say conviction made him a ‘national punchline'
Lawyers for former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez are urging a judge to be lenient at his sentencing later this month for his conviction on bribery charges. On Thursday, the lawyers told the judge who will sentence him that the Democrat’s good deeds through an unusual life spent overcoming hardships should weigh in his favor.
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Judge denies sentencing delay for ex-Sen. Bob Menendez but puts his wife's trial off until February
Former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez will be sentenced on corruption charges as scheduled at the end of January, and his wife’s trial will be moved from January to February, a judge said Monday. U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein in Manhattan rejected Menendez’s request to delay his sentencing for his conviction on bribery and other charges until his wife finishes her trial...
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Ex-Sen. Bob Menendez, citing 'emotional toll,' seeks sentencing delay amid wife's trial
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is asking a federal judge to delay his end-of-January sentencing on bribery charges, saying his family would suffer a “tremendous emotional toll” if the New Jersey Democrat was sentenced during his wife’s trial. His lawyers told Judge Sidney H. Stein in a letter that Nadine Menendez would face a jury that might find it impossible...
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Ex-US Sen. Bob Menendez seeks new trial, citing prosecutors' recently admitted error
Bob Menendez asked a judge Wednesday to set aside guilty verdicts that forced his resignation from the U.S. Senate and grant a new bribery trial.
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Prosecutors say some evidence was inadvertently given to jurors at Menendez's bribery trial
Federal prosecutors say some evidence that a judge had excluded from the bribery trial of former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was inadvertently put on a computer given to jurors, but they say it should not affect the Democrat’s conviction. Prosecutors told a federal trial judge in a letter Wednesday that they recently discovered the error. They say the laptop...
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Menendez co-defendant Daibes pleads guilty to separate bank fraud charges
Fred Daibes, the man convicted of bribing Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) with gold bars and cash, pleaded guilty in federal court in Newark on Thursday to a separate count of bank fraud. The judge said that Daibes, a New Jersey developer, faces between 18 and 37 months in prison under the plea deal for the fraud charge. Sentencing was scheduled…
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New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez seeks acquittal in bribery case
Attorneys for New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez filed a motion Monday seeking their client’s acquittal in connection to the bribery case Menendez was found guilty in last month. “Senator Robert Menendez respectfully renews his motion for judgment of acquittal on all counts for failure to introduce sufficient evidence to satisfy each of the elements of each offense, or, in...
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Awaiting Gov. Murphy's pick to replace Sen. Menendez
Chris Glorioso reporting on awaiting Gov. Murphy’s pick to replace Sen. Menendez.
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NJ businessman convicted of bribing Sen. Menendez seeks plea deal in bank fraud case
One of the businessmen convicted of bribing NJ Sen. Bob Menendez with cash and gold bars is in plea talks in a separate bank fraud case. An attorney for Fred Daibes told a federal judge today that he hopes to have a plea deal done by August to avoid a trial on bank fraud related counts.
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Bob Menendez set to resign from Senate: What to know and what comes next
New Jersey’s senior senator now has less than a month left in the senate after announcing that he would resign from Congress on Aug. 20. The news came one day after the senate’s ethics committee started a review on his expulsion. So what will happen before he officially leaves office? NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.
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The rise and fall of Bob Menendez: A timeline
Sen. Bob Menendez, the New Jersey Democrat who has served in public office for decades, will resign his Senate seat effective Aug. 20, he said in a letter addressed to Gov. Phil Murphy. This latest development comes a week after the senator was convicted in a federal bribery case. An ending to a trial that stains a decades-long career in public office. A...
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NJ Sen. Bob Menendez will resign on Aug. 20, he says in letter to governor
Sen. Bob Menendez submitted a letter of resignation on Tuesday to Gov. Phil Murphy, which comes a week after his federal corruption conviction. According to the copy obtained by NBC News, his last day in public office will be Aug. 20. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.
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Read the full text of Sen. Bob Menendez's resignation letter
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez announced his plans Tuesday to resign from office, effective Aug. 20, following his conviction last week on all 16 counts against him in a federal corruption trial. Menendez is currently the senior senator from the Garden State and has been serving in the seat since 2006. He sent a letter earlier on Tuesday to New…
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Bob Menendez will resign NJ seat after guilty verdict in federal bribery case
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez said in a letter that he will resign his position in August, a week after he was found guilty on all counts in his federal corruption trial and amid mounting calls for him to step down.