A jury has found New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez guilty of all 16 charges against him, including bribery, obstruction of justice, and acting as a foreign agent.
The jury spent over 12 hours across three days deliberating.
Federal prosecutors said that Menendez accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in the form of cash, gold bars, and mortgage payments to take actions to benefit the governments of Egypt and Qatar. Three New Jersey businessmen were also charged as part of the plot.
Menendez’s wife, Nadine, is also charged in the case, but her trial has been postponed while she recovers from breast cancer surgery.
Menendez has been a senator for New Jersey since 2006 and is the first sitting member of Congress to be charged with conspiracy by a public official to act as a foreign agent when he was indicted in 2023. He refused to resign from office but did agree to step down as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Menendez is up for reelection in November but decided he would not seek the Democratic nomination. Instead, he filed paperwork to run as an Independent as he tries to keep his seat.
Menendez faces more than 200 years in prison when he is sentenced on October 29.
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