Menendez was convicted in July of 16 corruption charges brought after an FBI raid on his residence in 2022 turned up $150,000 in gold bars and $480,000 in cash.

Former Democratic New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez faces a possible 15-year prison sentence after prosecutors called for severe penalties following his conviction on bribery and foreign agent charges.

WASHINGTON — Prosecutors say former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez should be imprisoned for 15 years for a “grave abuse of his power,” after the New Jersey Democrat became the first person to be convicted of abusing a Senate committee leadership position and the first U.S. public official to be convicted of serving as a foreign agent.

Federal prosecutors are pushing for a 15-year sentence for former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez following his bribery conviction, emphasizing the severity of his offenses that involved abusing his position on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and acting as a foreign agent.

Prosecutors seek 15 years for ex-NJ Senator Bob Menendez, convicted of abusing his Senate role and serving as a foreign agent.

Attorneys for Bob Menendez painted him as a defeated man as ... At trial, jurors heard from an FBI agent that authorities seized gold bars and about $486,000 in cash during a 2022 search of ...

Bob Menendez’s lawyers blame Nadine Menendez ... reporting Tamayo had also been “in contact” with the FBI, and saying he was a “valuable source of information” to US agents ...

Former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) will be sentenced on corruption charges next month as planned after a federal judge declined to delay the proceeding ahead of the ex-lawmaker’s wife’s trial. U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein on Monday rejected Menendez’s request to push back the Jan.

Prosecutors say former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez should be imprisoned for 15 years after the Democrat was convicted of abusing a Senate committee leadership position and serving as a foreign agent.

A convicted drug dealer and a former New Jersey mayor indicted on corruption charges write to federal judge to help Bob Menendez

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is asking a federal judge to delay his end-of-January sentencing on bribery charges.