“His years of selling his office to the highest bidder have finally come to an end,” stated US attorney Damian Williams
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) was convicted on Tuesday on all counts in a federal corruption trial determining that he had accepted bribes on behalf of the Egyptian and Qatari governments.
Prosecutors proved that Menendez, one of the most prominent supporters of Israel on Capitol Hill and a former chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, accepted a Mercedes-Benz convertible, gold bars, hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and other bribes as part of a scheme to benefit the two Middle Eastern dictatorships.
“This case has always been about shocking levels of corruption,” stated Damian Williams, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. “This wasn’t politics as usual. This was politics for profit.”