New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez has been found guilty by a federal Jury in Manhattan, of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes, as well as 1-kilogram gold bars — in exchange for using his Senate Office power to enrich and protect three businessmen and the Egyptian and Qatari governments.
The jury verdict — guilty on all 18 counts — was delivered in Manhattan federal court after deliberations over three days.
It ended a 9-week trial that revealed how the senator leveraged his position as the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to cater to the whims of men who showered him and his wife with gold, cash and gifts including a Mercedes-Benz convertible.
