 The jury deliberating 13 hours over three days to find the powerful Democrat guilty of all 16 counts he faced, including bribery, extortion, and being a public official acting as a foreign agent. Menendez, who did not testify during the two-month trial coming to the cameras outside the courthouse, defiant. I have never been anything but a patriot of my country and for my country. I have never, ever been a foreign agent.