U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein announced the sentence after Menendez tearfully addressed the judge, saying he'd lost everything he cared about, except for his wife.

N.J., was sentenced on Wednesday after being found guilty on all counts in his federal corruption trial last year.

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.