“Robert Menendez, the once-powerful U.S. senator from New Jersey who was convicted last year of participating in a brazen scheme to trade political clout for bribes, could spend much of the rest of his life in prison after he is sentenced on Wednesday in Manhattan,” the New York Times reports.
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