Overview

• Federal investigators used a confidential informant to record conversations between Sen. Bob Menendez and three New Jersey businessmen with ties to Egypt.
• The recordings are part of a 196-page legal brief arguing against Menendez's request to dismiss the bribery charges.
• Menendez and his wife, Nadine, are accused of accepting bribes in exchange for political favors, a charge they deny.
• Prosecutors allege the recordings provide evidence of a bribery scheme, despite Menendez's claims of being swindled by one of the businessmen.
• More than half of Menendez’s Democratic colleagues in the Senate have called for his resignation.