Menendez was found guilty in a corruption case involving tens of thousands in cash and gold and charges of conspiring to work as a foreign agent.

Just after receiving a hefty prison sentence, former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) called the prosecution against him a “political witch hunt,” before praising President Donald Trump as “right” to attack the Justice Department as politically biased.

Former Sen. Bob Menendez, a veteran Democratic legislator who represented New Jersey from 2006 through his resignation last year, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Wednesday after being found guilty on charges of bribery and acting as an agent for a foreign government.

The former New Jersey senator was sentenced to 11 years in prison after being convicted of bribery and corruption.

Former U.S. Senator Bob Menendez was sentenced on Wednesday to 11 years in prison for taking bribes including gold bars in exchange for favors for Egypt and New Jersey businessmen. U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein imposed the sentence at a hearing in Manhattan federal court,

The disgraced former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison after he got busted for taking bribes in cash and gold bars.

Former Sen. Bob Menendez is scheduled to be sentenced on bribery and corruption charges in federal court in New York, where prosecutors are recommending he serve 15 years behind bars.

Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison for acting as a foreign agent of Egypt and accepting gold bars and other bribes in what prosecutors said was perhaps the worst corruption case ever involving a US senator.