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Google searches could amount to the evidence required to convict an embattled Democratic senator and land him behind bars. The federal trial of New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is scheduled to begin on Monday, according to Politico. Prosecutors are alleging that the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee accepted 13 gold bars in return for official actions. Menendez is accused of accepting lucrative bribes from agents of the governments of Egypt and Qatar in the case, as well as three New Jersey businessmen, according to The Washington Post. Menendez had all charges in his previous ind…