Bob Menendez is about to spend his “golden” years behind bars.
The disgraced New Jersey Democrat was on account of report at a federal jail in Pennsylvania Tuesday to start his 11-year jail sentence for a corrupt scheme that earned him the moniker “Gold Bar Bob.”
Menendez, 71, was ordered to give up at FCI Schuykill — a two-and-a-half-hour drive from his Englewood Cliffs house — by 2:30 p.m. following his conviction for promoting out his {powerful} Senate publish to counterpoint himself with gold bars, money and different bribes.
The once-powerful pol was sentenced in January, however was allowed to push off his jail time period’s begin date after he argued he wanted to assist his spouse, Nadine Menendez, throughout her trial on comparable bribery and corruption fees.
He’s additionally made a bid to attain a last-minute pardon or sentence commutation from President Trump — however except that occurs Tuesday, Menendez will probably be calling the Keystone State jail house.
It’s seemingly the ex-head of the Senate Overseas Relations Committee will angle for a spot on the lockup’s minimal safety camp, which permits its 225 male inmates extra freedom of motion and has much less workers.
FCI Schuykill additionally homes one other 984 male inmates at a bigger medium safety facility.
As soon as inside, Menendez will be capable to purchase gadgets like $8.55 Head and Shoulders shampoo, $13 Sensodyne toothpaste and $4.20 Jolly Ranchers candies from the commissary.
He’ll be capable to have 4 visits monthly and may ship and obtain letters and postcards, in accordance with the jail’s web site.
The crooked pol will turn out to be the lockup’s most well-known inmate, although different notable residents embrace Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa, a former gas-station tycoon dubbed the “Gas Station Gotti” by The Put up after he was convicted of ordering murders in a bid to maintain secret a plot to tear off clients by tampering with pumps.
Menendez, who led the Senate committee tasked with approving large sums of deadly navy support, was convicted by a Manhattan federal jury on July 16, 2024, of taking bribes and of serving as an unlawful international agent for Egypt and Qatar.
He was discovered responsible of doling out favors to international governments whereas go-betweens showered him and his spouse with money, gold bars, a Mercedes, checks for a no-show job and payouts to a sham “consulting” agency.
FBI brokers discovered $486,471 in money unfold out all around the Menendez couple’s home, together with inside his official authorities jacket.
The feds additionally found 13 gold bars price $150,000 tucked inside a secure within the couple’s bed room.
“Somewhere along the way, you became, I’m sorry to say, a corrupt politician,” Decide Sidney Stein instructed the pilloried pol at his sentencing.
Nadine Menendez, 58, was additionally convicted of her function within the crooked scheme and is about to be sentenced in September.
She was noticed Monday getting picked up by her hubby on the Englewood Cliffs house earlier than working an errand at what seemed to be a credit score union.
