His career tarnished by a Mercedes-Benz and gold bars
The Democratic senator from New Jersey was found guilty of 16 corruption charges, including accepting million-dollar gifts.
HAVANA TIMES – The US senator from New Jersey, Bob Menendez, one of the most recognizable Latino politicians within the Democratic Party, was found guilty Tuesday by a jury on all bribery and corruption charges (16 in total) for which he was accused in a New York court.
The sentence to be handed down by the judge will be announced on October 29, according to Judge Sidney Stein.
The prosecution had accused Menéndez, 70, and his wife, Nadine, of accepting million-dollar gifts from Egypt and Qatar to help them politically while in office, to the point of labeling him a “foreign agent.”
The senator never wanted to reach a plea deal, which could have reduced his sentence from a maximum of 20 years and claimed the gifts received as something natural in the activity of a politician.
Menendez’s Story
The story of Senator Robert ‘Bob’ Menendez (New York, 70 years old) can be told in chronological order or in reverse, but after being found guilty today of 16 corruption charges, the narrative is diametrically different depending on where you start.
The son of a carpenter and a seamstress who fled Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship in Cuba to settle in New York, Menendez graduated and earned his law degree from Rutgers School of Law, a source of great pride for his family.
He combined his work in the acad
