Gold bars and stacks of cash: how Bob Menendez ended up charged with bribery

The New Jersey senator says he won't resign but a federal indictment lays out a lurid scheme of alleged corruption

When federal prosecutors raided Bob Menendez's home in the summer of 2022, they found a staggering haul.

The US senator for New Jersey, one of the most influential and powerful Democrats in the country, had almost $500,000 in cash stuffed into jacket pockets, closets and a safe, along with 13 gold bars, two of them marked as 1kg in weight.