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 own lawyer said earned him the nickname “Gold Bar Bob.”
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00:00Good afternoon. Regardless of the judge's comments today, I am innocent and I look forward
00:10to filing appeals on a whole host of issues. But let me just say this, this whole process
00:19has been nothing but a political witch hunt by the Justice Department's NSD
00:25and prosecutors who are more interested in political scalps and preparing to run for public
00:33office like Damien Williams. Only in the Southern District of New York could prosecutors send the
00:41jury illegal evidence that violates the judge's order and the Constitution's speech and debate
00:49clause, have no accountability as to who or how or what happened, claim that it was critical
01:03evidence when they were trying to convince the judge not once but twice that this was critical
01:09evidence, and then suggest that after they were caught that in fact it was unimportant.
01:16That's outrageous, outrageous and unbelievable. Only in the SDNY could you embrace an FBI agent
01:24who was caught lying on the stand in order to make their case. Only in the Southern District
01:32of New York would prosecutors allow a witness to walk away from over 10 criminal charges,
01:39including defrauding the United States government so that they can get him to lie on the stand.
01:47Welcome to the Southern District of New York, the Wild West of political prosecutions.
01:53President Trump is right, this process is political and it's corrupted to the core.
02:00I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores the integrity to the system.