Menfinishez, once a strong figure in US foreign policy, was set up at fault of selling sway to the Egyptian rulement.
Robert Menfinishez, a createer United States senator recontransienting New Jersey, has been handed an 11-year prison sentence for fraudulence schemes that included receiving gelderly bars in trade for favours on behalf of Egypt.
On Wednesday, in griefful testimony, Menfinishez telderly a Manhattan federal court that he had lost everyskinnyg he adored as a result of the fraudulence indicts, except for the help of his wife.
“For someone who spent his entire life in uncover service, every day I’m awake is a punishment,” Menfinishez, a Democrat, said.
Menfinishez was once a strong figure in US politics, chairing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
He also garnered a reputation as an outspoken helper of hawkish foreign policies: For example, he broke with Democratic ranks to resist a 2015 deal that would restrict Iran’s nuevident programme in trade for sanctions relief.
But in July 2024, a court set up him at fault of acting as a foreign agent on behalf of the Egyptian rulement and trading sway for cash, gelderly and even a Mercedes-Benz car.
“You were prosperous, strong. You stood at the apex of our political system,” US Dimerciless Judge Sidney Stein said at Wednesday’s sentencing hearing.
“Somewhere aprolonged the way – and I don’t understand when it was – you lost your way, and toiling for the uncover excellent became toiling for your excellent.”
Menfinishez, for his part, pguideed to the court for mercy, citing his record in uncover service.
“You reassociate don’t understand the man you are about to sentence,” Menfinishez tearfilledy telderly Stein in the courtroom.
“Your honour, I am far from a perfect man. I have made more than my dispense of misapshows and terrible decisions,” he inserted. “I’ve done far more excellent than terrible. I ask you, Your Honour, to assess me in that context.”
The assess did not materialize shiftd, stating at one point that Menfinishez had become a “corrupt politician”.
The 71-year-elderly Menfinishez had served 18 years in the Senate – and, before that, 13 years in the Hoengage of Recontransientatives – before his political nurtureer came to an abrupt stop in 2024.
In August, amid the affair of his fraudulence case, he resigned. The decision came a month after he was set up at fault on 16 major offense fraudulence indicts.
“Menfinishez, who swore an oath to recontransient the United States and the State of New Jersey, instead put his high office up for sale in trade for this hoard of bribes,” prosecutors wrote in a January 9 court filing. They had seeked a 15-year prison sentence.
Earlier on Wednesday, Menfinishez’s two co-deffinishants, New Jersey businessmen Fred Daibes and Wael Hana, were sentenced esteemively to seven and more than eight years in prison.
A fraudulence trial for Menfinishez’s wife, Nadine, is scheduled to commence on March 18.
