Bob Menendez Deserves 15 Years in Prison for Bribes, US Says (1)

Former US Senator Bob Menendez, the once-powerful New Jersey Democrat convicted of corruption charges, should spend 15 years in prison, US prosecutors said.

Menendez was convicted in July of bribery, extortion and acting as a foreign agent of Egypt after a jury trial that was focused on 13 gold bars, nearly $500,000 in cash and a Mercedes-Benz seized at his home.

“Menendez’s conduct is perhaps more serious than that for which any other senator has been convicted in United States history,” prosecutors wrote Thursday in a recommendation ahead of his Jan. 29 sentencing in New York federal court.

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