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With less than a month to go before Robert Menendez, New Jersey’s disgraced former U.S. senator, is scheduled to be sentenced for corruption, his lawyers submitted an emotion-laden appeal for leniency based on what they depicted as Mr. Menendez’s hardscrabble upbringing, life of service and devotion to family. In a legal brief filed minutes before […]
Attorneys for Bob Menendez painted him as a defeated man as they asked a federal court for leniency when sentencing the former senator, who was found guilty last summer on all charges in a sweeping federal corruption case. As the 71-year-old longtime New Jersey Democrat is set to be sentenced in New York on Jan. […]