 uh... benefits in cash in gold bars in exchange for taking official action as a powerful member of the u.s senate chairman of the foreign relations committee this is so typical of of menendez and you know the normal person when you get away with it the first time with an acquittal you know they they knock it off no it only in bolden and incentivize gold bar bob to do it even more and do it blatantly he thought he was above the law