 He faced 16 counts in connection with what prosecutors called corruption on a massive scale. The powerful United States senator is now a convicted criminal. The jury took about 13 hours to deliberate the fate of the senator, and they found him guilty of bribery, extortion, and of being a public official acting as a foreign agent. ABC's Aaron Katursky at the courthouse. Menendez faces up to 20 years in federal prison. This is ABC News.