June 17 (UPI) -- Ex-U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez will start his 11-year prison term Tuesday after his conviction last year on a slew of corruption and bribery charges, including acting as an unauthorized foreign agent.
Menendez, New Jersey's 71-year-old former Democratic senior senator and past chair of the Senate's powerful Foreign Relations Committee, was found guilty in June 2024 in New York's Southern District on 16 charges.
Those charges included that he and his wife, Nadine, accepted bribes in the amount of hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, gold bars and a luxury car from at least three Garden State businessmen in exchange for political clout, and acting as a foreign agent of Egypt and aided Qatar.
He is expected to report to a federal correctional institution in Schuylkill County in eastern Pennsylvania a little more than two hours from his New Jersey home. The federal facility in Minersville, a duel medium-minimum security prison, houses about 1,200 inmates.
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