 monday the senate ethics committee had notified him they'd be voting to start an adjudicatory review of his alleged violations of senate rules that could have allowed the senators to begin the process of expulsion he was convicted last week of 16 charges including bribery conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right obstruction of justice and of acting as a foreign agent for accepting money from new jersey businessmen with ties to egypt and qatar he faces a more than 200 year prison term at sentencing in late october jessica rosenthal fox new