Former Sen. Bob Menendez surrendered to a federal prison in Pennsylvania to start an 11-year sentence Tuesday morning, after his conviction last year in a sweeping corruption case that spurred the downfall of the once-powerful New Jersey Democrat.
A federal jury last year found Menendez, 71, guilty on a range of criminal charges, including bribery, extortion and acting as a foreign agent. A judge sentenced him earlier this year, saying at the hearing that somewhere along the way the lawmaker became “a corrupt politician.”
The federal Bureau of Prisons on Tuesday confirmed that Menendez was in the agency’s custody at FCI Schuylkill, a medium-security federal correctional institution in rural Pennsylvania that has an adjacent minimum-security satellite prison camp, according to the BOP’s website.
