NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor repeatedly referred to Nadine Menendez as the “partner in crime” of her husband — former Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez — while asking a jury in a trial’s closing argument Thursday to convict her of bribery charges.

Friends do not give friends envelopes stuffed with tens of thousands in cash just out of friendship,” the prosecutor told jurors in closing. “Friends do not give friends kilograms of gold bars worth $60,

MANHATTAN (CN) — Nadine Menendez wasn’t an innocent bystander in the corrupt bribery scheme that landed her husband, disgraced former U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, an 11-year prison sentence, prosecutors said Thursday.