Prosecutors seek at least 15 years in prison for ex-senator Robert Menendez

Robert Menendez, the former senator from New Jersey, should be sentenced to at least 15 years in prison after being found guilty of corruption and betraying his constituents by putting his office “for sale” in exchange for various gifts, according to prosecutors. authorities. The motion was filed Thursday night in federal court in Manhattan, a week after Menendez’s attorneys asked the judge to show “leniency,” citing their client’s age (he is 71), decades of public service offices, his charity work, his devotion to his family and his financial and professional ruin. The probation watchdog recommended last week that the former senator be sentenced to 12 years in prison, which his lawyers say amounts to a “death sentence.” Menendez, a Democratic senator for more than 18 years and former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was found guilty last July of both […]
Source: News Beast

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