Federal prosecutors on Wednesday accused Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) of putting his power “up for sale” by procuring weapons and aid for Egypt, securing a Qatari investment for a New Jersey businessman, and making criminal charges disappear for another in exchange for cash, gold bars, and a Mercedes Benz. 

“You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours,” U.S. prosecutor Laura Pomerantz said during opening arguments in the senator’s high-profile bribery trial. She also accused Menendez of putting “greed first.”