Former U.S. Senator Bob Menendez has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for accepting bribes, including gold bars, from business people in Egypt and New Jersey in exchange for services, Reuters reports.
U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein handed down the sentence in Manhattan federal court after sentencing Menendez last July.
Menendez will begin serving his sentence on June 6. In March, his wife, Nadine Menendez, was convicted of corruption in the Senate.
Menendez, who represented New Jersey in the Senate for 18 and a half years and chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was found guilty in July of all 16 felony charges, including bribery and fraud. He was also found guilty of being a foreign agent, an unprecedented charge for a U.S. senator.
Menendez, 71, resigned from the Senate in August.
