 But the judge has told federal prosecutors to be prepared for summations after a lunch break. Menendez, who was chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, has pleaded not guilty to charges of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts, cash, and gold in exchange for favors to foreign business interests in Qatar and Egypt. A trial on unrelated charges in 2017 ended with a deadlocked jury. Jared Halpern, Fox News. I'm Sue Gosman. This is Fox News.