 New Jersey's senior senator is charged with accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and gold bars to help local businessmen secure deals with Egypt and Qatar, and in one case to allegedly try to stop a criminal investigation. Defense lawyers for Menendez rested last Wednesday after calling just five witnesses in what's been a two-month-long trial. Menendez has denied any wrongdoing, claiming he knew nothing about the stash of cash found inside his wife's locked closet.