The sentencing of Nadine Menendez has brought to a close a prosecution that focused on the years after she met then-Sen. Bob Menendez in 2018.

A jury has begun deliberating in the bribery case brought against Nadine Menendez after a prosecutor told a jury that she was a “critical participant” in a five-year fraud with her husband, former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez.

Lawyers have delivered opening statements in the trial of Nadine Menendez, the wife of former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, who was convicted last year of accepting bribes of cash and gold.