A jury found a powerful US senator guilty on all 18 counts of corruption Tuesday after gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash were found at his home, local media reported.
Robert Menendez, a 70-year-old Democrat from New Jersey, was charged with extortion, obstruction of justice and accepting bribes to perform favors for businessmen with connections to Egypt and Qatar and will be sentenced at a later date.
Menendez, who said in June he would run as an independent in November’s election, is a career politician and led the influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee until the charges were filed.
In a raid on his New Jersey home, FBI agents were said to have found nearly $500,000 in cash hidden around the house, as well as gold bars worth around $150,000 and a luxury Mercedes-Benz convertible.
His wife Nadine Menendez, to whom defense lawyers are seeking to shift the blame, has also been charged but will be tried separately as she is receiving treatment for breast cancer.
Prosecutors alleged Menendez put his power as a top US senator “up for sale.”
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