{"id":7224,"date":"2025-05-17T01:53:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T01:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/?p=7224"},"modified":"2025-05-17T01:53:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T01:53:05","slug":"former-top-democrat-senator-sentenced-to-11-year-prison-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/former-top-democrat-senator-sentenced-to-11-year-prison-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Top Democrat Senator Sentenced To 11-Year Prison Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) called his 11-year prison sentence for corruption a \u201cpolitical prosecution,\u201d citing former President Trump\u2019s legal troubles as evidence of a biased justice system.<\/p>\n<p>Convicted of accepting bribes and acting as an agent for Egypt, Menendez became the first U.S. official found guilty of serving a foreign government while in office.<\/p>\n<p>Outside court, Menendez said, \u201cPresident Trump was right\u2026 this process is political and corrupt.\u201d He didn\u2019t say whether he would seek a pardon from Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Menendez resigned from the Senate last year after losing his committee chair. He is reportedly considering a political comeback, possibly as an independent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) called his 11-year prison sentence for corruption a \u201cpolitical prosecution,\u201d citing former President Trump\u2019s legal troubles as evidence of a biased justice system. Convicted of accepting bribes and acting as an agent for Egypt, Menendez became the first U.S. official found guilty of serving a foreign government while in office. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7226,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224\/revisions\/7226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}