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.

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.

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.