Mr. Menendez, a powerful longtime senator from New Jersey, was convicted last year on federal bribery and corruption charges.

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in prison for accepting bribes of gold and cash and acting as an agent of Egypt — crimes his lawyer said he’s been mocked for as “Gold Bar Bob.

Disgraced former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Wednesday. Prosecutors had sought 15 years behind bars for Menendez, 71, who was convicted on more than a dozen political corruption charges last summer after a jury found he accepted bribes to perform professional favors for businessmen with ties to Egypt and Qatar.