Former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) is set to report to a federal prison in Pennsylvania on Tuesday to begin an 11-year sentence following his conviction on bribery and other corruption charges.
The New Jersey Democrat was found guilty last year on all 16 counts, including that he accepted bribes from three New Jersey businessmen in exchange for his political clout and that he acted as a foreign agent of Egypt.
Menendez is expected to be housed at the Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill, a facility in Minersville, Penn., that has both a medium and minimum-security prison and is less than three hours from his New Jersey home. It houses roughly 1,200 inmates.
A federal appeals court last week denied Menendez’s last-ditch bid to stave off his prison term while appealing his conviction, letting his report date stand in a 2-1 decision that offered no explanation for the split.
Once chair of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Menendez’s conviction amounted to a stunning fall from grace. He is the first senator ever found guilty of acting as a foreign agent while in office.
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