The wife of former U.S. senator Bob Menendez was found guilty on Monday of helping her husband generate a steady flow of bribes and gifts that totaled about $1 million and included gold bars, cash and a luxury car.
Nadine Menendez, 58,was convicted of bribery, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to commit those crimes and related counts after a roughly month-long trial in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. She faces the possibility of decades in prison.
Federal prosecutors said Menendez was her husband’s partner in blatant corruption — that she arranged meetings, negotiated deals and collected payments from people seeking favors from the longtime Democratic lawmaker,while trying to cover their tracks because she knew that what they were doing was criminal.