NEW YORK — A federal judge sentenced former Sen. Bob Menendez to 11 years in prison Wednesday for his role in a sweeping criminal case, saying that somewhere along the way the lawmaker became “a corrupt politician.”
Menendez, the 71-year-old former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, stood before the federal judge in lower Manhattan as the sentence was delivered in a full but quiet courtroom.
Judge Sidney H. Stein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York walked through the details of the case and said the evidence was “very substantial.”
