 He did sell his office. He sold the power of the Senate that he had in Washington, D.C. for $480,000 in cash bribes, as well as 13 gold bars found in his wife's closet, Mercedes-Benz, and other lavish and expensive gifts. The jury found that he acted as a foreign agent of Egypt, as well as Qatar as the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, interfering in U.S. foreign policy for his own personal benefit. Fox.