Nadine Menendez was sentenced to four and a half years in prison last month for bribery and corruption, her husband, disgraced US Senator Bob Menendez is currently serving 11 years on the same charges.

A Jury found the couple took in hundreds of thousands in cash, gold bars and a Mercedes convertible after Menendez misused his powerful position on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to help two businessmen secure contracts and escape criminal prosecution. They were also found guilty of conspiring to help Egypt secure US weapons and cover up the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.

In this adapted excerpt from their new book “ Gold Bar Bob: The Downfall of the Most Corrupt US Senator “, authors Isabel Vincent and Thomas Jason Anderson describe how the couple first met.

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