Attorneys for Bob Menendez painted him as a defeated man as they asked a federal court for leniency when sentencing the former senator, who was found guilty last summer on all charges in a sweeping federal corruption case.
As the 71-year-old longtime New Jersey Democrat is set to be sentenced in New York on Jan. 29, Menendez attorneys in a court filing Thursday said the court probation department’s recommended sentence of 12 years in prison “would be draconian — likely a life and death sentence for someone of Bob’s age and condition.”
And even a sentencing guideline range of 21 to 27 months would be “improper,” the attorneys argued, suggesting that the court instead hand down a sentence that relies “heavily on alternatives to incarceration.”
