Disgraced ex-NJ Sen. Bob Menendez cries as he begs for leniency — but gets 11 years in prison for gold bar bribery scheme

He’s going from gold bars to prison bars.

A teary-eyed Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison Wednesday for selling out his Senate office to enrich himself — in an infamous corruption case that has forever branded him “Gold Bar Bob.”

The disgraced New Jersey Democrat and former head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee cried as he begged the court for “mercy,” after being found guilty of trading favors for foreign governments and businessmen in exchange for cash, gold bars and even a Mercedes-Benz convertible.

“Somewhere along the way, you became, I’m sorry to say, a corrupt politician,” Stein told the disgraced pol.