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Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) has been sentenced to 11 years in prison after being convicted in July of corruption and bribery. The sentence is the longest ever imposed upon a former U.S. senator. Menendez did what he could to appeal to President Donald Trump — who could pardon him given …

Andy Kim is in between offices. The desks in his temporary space in the bowels of the Dirksen Senate Office Building remain mostly bare. Boxes holding monitors and other work supplies are stacked nearly to the ceiling in the conference room. His staff, waiting for news on when they’ll get …

After months of battling it out in federal court — and in the court of public opinion — Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) will resign from his seat in Congress after being convicted on charges of bribery and corruption. He will step down on Aug. 20, he announced in a letter …

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, who was found hiding over $100,000 in gold bars during a federal raid at his home, has told his pals he will resign from his seat after being convicted of bribery earlier this week, NBC News reported Wednesday. Menendez, who is the first sitting member …

Longtime Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez has been found guilty of corruption and bribery by a New York jury. On Tuesday, the New Jersey Democrat was convicted on all charges related to a widespread bribery and improper foreign-aid scheme detailed by prosecutors over the course of three indictments. In September, Menendez …

To mark the first day of Sen. Bob Menendez‘s corruption trial, Jon Stewart took the opportunity during Monday’s episode of the Daily Show to point out how unnecessary the whole thing was and joked that the whole thing could have been avoided if the senator had been properly educated on …

If you thought the allegations of corruption against New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez couldn’t go any deeper, you clearly aren’t accustomed to hiding gold bars in your sock drawer. On Tuesday, New York prosecutors leveled another superseding indictment against the Democratic senator, bringing up the total of indictments against Menendez …

Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update addressed former President Donald Trump‘s recent comments about the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, as well as the recent indictments of New York Rep. George Santos and New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez. Trump, in a speech to supporters Wednesday in Florida, praised Hezbollah as “very smart” …

Additional charges have been leveled against Sen. Bob Menendez, who was indicted last month on allegations of corruption and bribery. A superseding indictment, unsealed Thursday, further charges the New Jersey Democrat with having “provided sensitive U.S. Government information and took other steps that secretly aided the Government of Egypt.” Menendez …

New Jersey Congressman Andy Kim was taking his kids to their annual checkup on Friday when his phone went haywire. “I was in the doctor’s office with them, they were running around and being absolutely crazy, but I could feel in my pocket my phone blowing up, just people calling …