Menendez judge: Some corruption defendants getting off too easy

‘The federal judge handling the corruption case against Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) is publicly lamenting—in another, unrelated case— the light sentences given to defendants who admit to such crimes but agree to cooperate with prosecutors.
At a sentencing hearing Wednesday for a New Jersey contractor who pleaded guilty in a bid-rigging scheme, U.S. District Court Judge William Walls repeatedly called ‘ridiculous’ the light sentences given to cooperating defendants, according to a report in the New Jersey Record.’
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