Bob Menendez

The Bureau of Prisons said Menendez surrendered around 9 a.m. Tuesday to begin serving his 11-year sentence, as the once-mighty Democratic politician is now registered as a federal inmate. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is going to prison for taking bribes of gold and cash and acting as an agent of Egypt.

Two defendants accused of bribing former Sen. Bob Menendez with cash and gold bars have reported to federal prison.  Businessman Wael Hana and developer Fred Daibes surrendered to FCI Fairton in south New Jersey Monday morning.  Daibes and Hana were convicted along with Menendez in July on 16 counts.  A third businessman, Jose Uribe, pleaded guilty and testified against his...

Menendez will surrender 11 days later than previously scheduled in order to attend a family wedding in June.

Nadine Menendez, the wife of former Sen. Bob Menendez, has been found guilty on all counts in her federal bribery trial. She was found guilty of bribery, obstruction of justice and helping her husband sell his office to work as a foreign agent for Egypt, all in exchange for taking hundreds of thousands in cash, gold bars and a new...

Nadine Menendez, wearing a pink facemask, stood beside her defense attorney as the verdict was read. Sentencing was scheduled for June 12. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports. 

A jury found Nadine Menendez guilty on all counts in a bribery case in which prosecutors said she was a “critical participant” in the five-year fraud with her husband, former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, as they accepted cash, gold bars and a luxury car from three New Jersey men looking for help with business dealings or legal woes. The jury...

A jury is resuming deliberations Monday in the bribery case brought against Nadine Menendez after a prosecutor told a jury that she was a “critical participant” in a five-year fraud with her husband, former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez. The jury began considering the charges against the 58-year-old Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, resident in mid-afternoon on Friday in Manhattan federal court. Jurors went...

A prosecutor repeatedly referred to Nadine Menendez as the “partner in crime” of her husband — former Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez — while asking a jury in a trial’s closing argument Thursday to convict her of bribery charges.

Prosecutors said Nadine Menendez was a partner in her husband’s crimes, helping to collect payoffs from three New Jersey businessmen in a wide-ranging scheme. The defense argued some of the gold she received was not bribes, but rather were passed down from her family or were gifts from businessmen who were longtime friends. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst...

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.

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...

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...

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....

A federal judge has rejected a bid by former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez to get his conviction on bribery charges thrown out.

Prosecutors called for the lengthy prison term for the 71-year-old New Jersey Democrat in papers filed in Manhattan federal court late Thursday.

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.

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...

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...

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.