Senator Menendez could throw his wife under the bus in an upcoming federal bribery trial, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday. 

The senator’s lawyers could try to prove the “absence of any improper intent on Senator Menendez’s part” by showing how his wife, Nadine Menendez, withheld information from him “or otherwise led him to believe that nothing unlawful was taking place,” they wrote in a legal brief.