live from Bensonhurst, Gaby Acevedo News 4, New York. Gaby thank you. Now, to the corruption trial involving New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez. More than 100 photos got released today of cash and gold bars found during an FBI search of his house today. Testimony shifted from all that money to an overseas overseas deal that the FBI says the senator helped arrange in exchange for payoffs. Chief investigative reporter Jonathan Dienst was at court. He joins us now with the latest, John Adam, as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee. Senator Menendez helped control hundreds of millions in military aid to Egypt and the feds today started to show what they say was a scheme by the senator to improperly use that foreign aid as leverage to help one New Jersey businessman to win a monopoly business deal with Egypt, a deal that shocked competing US businesses and some US government officials alike. This as we're seeing more photos of what prosecutors say is evidence of the bribery scheme. A duffle bag with $100,000 in the basement, other bags with thousands more and even more cash found in closets, in boxes and in shoes. The FBI says this is what they found. Executing the bribery related search warrant at Senator and Nadine Menendez, Englewood Cliffs home. Among the finds, two gold bars and other items of gold. Senator Menendez's lawyers have argued it was his wife, Nadine, who took some money and that gold from the New Jersey businessman because they are long time friends, not as part of any bribe scheme. And the New Jersey Democrats lawyers told the jury. The gold was only found in Nadine's locked closet, a closet Senator Menendez did not have a key for, and that he did not know how she obtained all the gold. But prosecutors pointed to hundreds of thousands in cash found in several rooms, and they asked an FBI agent today about thousands found in the senator's clothes. What were the names on the jackets? Robert Menendez and Senator Menendez, the agent answered. Did you see the name Nadine on any of the jackets where you found the cash? No. He answered, while Hannah is one New Jersey businessman accused of paying bribes, prosecutors say Hannah wanted the senator's help securing an overseas halal meat inspection business with the Egyptian government. As then chair of the Foreign Relations committee, the senator oversaw hundreds of millions in aid to Egypt. In 2019, Hannah's ferm isg halal suddenly won an exclusive contract with Egypt while four other experienced U.S. businesses were abruptly canceled. On the stand, James Tait, a Department of Agriculture official, said the shocking deal raised legal questions of fair competition from the very beginning. Aid firms in all were applying for approval and seven of the eight provided all the required documents. Only Hannah's company did not comply. Quote ISG halal did not provide documentation, Tait testified. Hannah won the deal anyway, and U.S. officials were apparently very worried about disruption of exports and added costs, Tait pointed out. At the time of Hannah's company got the deal, they only had one lawyer and one employee, but his firm would need hundreds of inspectors to cover slaughterhouses across the U.S. The senator and the two businessmen have pleaded not guilty, along with Nadine Menendez
