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Menendez's guilty verdict underlines an incredible level of corruption, including acting as an unregistered agent for the Egyptian government. He accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, which were allegedly disguised as gifts, and even stored significant amounts of cash and gold bars, totaling 13, at his residence. Law enforcement officials discovered this cache during a raid, revealing alarming evidence of his illicit activities. The stark reality is that possessing gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars stuffed in pockets is not conventional behavior and indicates criminal conduct, a fact that the former Senator failed to convincingly refute in defense of his actions.