 In a guilty verdict in New York, Julie Walker has it. New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez convicted of all counts at his federal corruption trial, including accepting cash, gold bars, a Mercedes, and acting as a foreign agent for Egypt. The 70-year-old Democrat says he's disappointed but believes he'll win an appeal. I have never violated my public oath. I have never been anything but a patriot of my country and for my country. I have never.