Former colleagues of shameful former Sena. Bob Menendez, dn.j., spoke about the former senator issued his country and his own legacy, published in the report New York Times on Wednesday.
Referee convicted menendez at 11 years In prison on Wednesday, concluding his trial for a “long -term bribery scheme and a foreign influence of rare gravity.”
The punishment is the strictest ever handed over to the US senator. Breaking down in tears, Menendez declared himself with the US District Judge Sidney Stein for mercy in New York court.
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Former US Senator Bob Menendez, dn.j., arrives at the Federal Court of New York before being convicted, on Wednesday, January 29, 2025 (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah) (AP)
Former New Jersey Chris Christie Government gave a dark retrospective that the former senator of NJ will be remembered.
“At a time when our expectations are still getting lower and lower for people in public life, what Bob Menendez will remember is even more lowering that standards,” ” Christie told The Timesadding, “It’s a hell epitaph.”
Christie continued to describe how Menendez had violated holy confidence between the public and their chosen officials, neglecting an important compromise that is required from politicians.
“When you are in public function, make a store: you get the influence in return you don’t get money,” Christie said. “If you believe that you can have influence and money at the same time as a public official, you will probably go to prison.”
The former governor of NJ believed that “Bob Menendez had just concluded that he could have both, and you can’t.”
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Former Government New Jersey Chris Christie has exposed what the former Sen thinks. Bob Menendez, dn.j., will be remembered after being sentenced to 11 years in prison for bribing and influence. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Former Senator Robert Torricelli, Dn.j., who faced his own ethical scandal while he was on duty, had a similar message about Menendez’s betrayal of his country.
“I don’t think it can be evaluated as a part of a form of inappropriate behavior or even corruption,” Torricelli said. “There was an element of the betrayal of the country and the action contrary to national interests that were almost unique in history The Congress of the United States. “
Although there was no missing criticism of former colleagues of Menendez, some still loyal to him wrote letters to the judge Stein, praying for the indulgence in his judgment. Henry J. Amoroso, a reputable lawyer and Menendez’s friend, recalled a time when a former senator showed him compassion during dinner celebrating his 60th birthday. At the time of dinner, Amoroso struggled with an exhaustive shoulder injury, which made him cut off the steak with a tax challenge.
“During dinner, he obviously noticed that I was struggling to cut my steak and without any hesitation and without drawing attention to myself, gently leaned in my own knife, grabbed my fork and cut a steak for me while I was completely involved in the conversation,” he wrote Amoroso.
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MSNBC host Alicia Menendez wrote a letter to Judge Stein, who sought leanability in her father’s punishment. (Left: Bonnie Gotovina/Pool via Reuters, Right: screenshot/MSNBC))
Menendez’s only daughter, the anchor of Msnbc Alicia Menendez, also wrote a letter to Judge Stein. While the letter asked the judge to show mercy to his father, because he had already lost his place in Senate, and even that his name was removed from the local elementary school, she turned to an irreparable harm that Senator had already made his own legacy, such as noted the Times.
“The inheritance of the service for 51 years in the emergence was reduced to a shot around the gold bars,” she wrote.
Fox News’ Anders Hagstr and Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
