Photo: Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg/Getty Images Former New Jersey senator Bob Menendez , who resigned in the wake of his conviction on federal bribery charges last year, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Wednesday. Federal prosecutors alleged that Menendez used his influential role leading the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to act on the behalf of the Egyptian government and to aid a pair of businessmen in their dealings. In return, Menendez and his wife Nadine Menendez received hundreds of