RICHMOND, Va. - Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, were convicted of corruption in federal court yesterday, after a trial that halted the political ascent of the one-time Republican star and peeled back the couple's private life to the bone.

RICHMOND, Va. � Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, were convicted of corruption in federal court yesterday, after a trial that halted the political ascent of the one-time Republican star and peeled back the couple�s private life to the bone.

As 11 counts of �guilty� were pronounced on conspiracy, bribery and extortion charges for Mr. McDonnell, he covered his face with his hands and his head fell nearly to the defense table. His wife, convicted on nine counts, looked straight ahead. There were sobs from the seats behind the couple that included their five adult children.

The seven-man, five-woman jury returned its findings on its third day of deliberations in U.S. District Court. The McDonnells were acquitted of lesser charges of making false statements on loan applications. Mrs. McDonnell also was convicted on a charge that she alone faced, of obstructing a grand-jury investigation.

The McDonnells had been indicted for what prosecutors said was a scheme to sell the office of governor, which Mr. McDonnell occupied through January, for $177,000 in gifts and cash from a dietary-supplements executive.

Asked whether Mr. McDonnell will appeal, his attorney, Henry W. Asbill, said, �Of course.�

Mr. McDonnell, who carried his wife over the threshold of the Executive Mansion the day of his inauguration, portrayed her in his testimony as a harridan whose yelling left him �spiritually and mentally exhausted,� and who was so cold that after he sent her an email pleading to save their marriage, she did not reply.

The defense used the demeaning portrait to argue that the McDonnells were too estranged to conspire criminally to trade favors with the vitamin executive, Jonnie R. Williams Sr.

The jury began deliberating on Tuesday after hearing from 67 witnesses over five weeks.