Former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Bribery

TIME

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in prison for accepting bribes of gold and cash and acting as an agent of Egypt -- crimes his own lawyer said earned him the nickname “Gold Bar Bob.”

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00:00Good afternoon. Regardless of the judge's comments today, I am innocent and I look forward

00:10to filing appeals on a whole host of issues. But let me just say this, this whole process

00:19has been nothing but a political witch hunt by the Justice Department's NSD

00:25and prosecutors who are more interested in political scalps and preparing to run for public

00:33office like Damien Williams. Only in the Southern District of New York could prosecutors send the

00:41jury illegal evidence that violates the judge's order and the Constitution's speech and debate

00:49clause, have no accountability as to who or how or what happened, claim that it was critical

01:03evidence when they were trying to convince the judge not once but twice that this was critical

01:09evidence, and then suggest that after they were caught that in fact it was unimportant.

01:16That's outrageous, outrageous and unbelievable. Only in the SDNY could you embrace an FBI agent

01:24who was caught lying on the stand in order to make their case. Only in the Southern District

01:32of New York would prosecutors allow a witness to walk away from over 10 criminal charges,

01:39including defrauding the United States government so that they can get him to lie on the stand.

01:47Welcome to the Southern District of New York, the Wild West of political prosecutions.

01:53President Trump is right, this process is political and it's corrupted to the core.

02:00I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores the integrity to the system.

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