“The indictment alleges that [Wael] Hana, [Jose] Uribe and [Fred] Daibes provided bribes in the form of cash, gold, home mortgage payments, a low-show or a no-show job for Nadine ...

He said the gold bars found in his New Jersey home by the FBI belonged to his wife, Nadine Menendez. She too was charged but her trial was postponed so she could recover from breast cancer surgery.

Bob Menendez and his wife, Nadine, on bribery and corruption charges. The scandal — with lurid images of gold bars and bags of cash — rocked New Jersey and national politics last September.