Bob Menendez Faces New Charge of Acting as a Foreign Agent
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US Senator Bob Menendez conspired to act as a foreign agent of Egypt, federal prosecutors said in a revised indictment that added a new count to earlier bribery charges against the New Jersey Democrat.
Menendez, his wife Nadine and Egyptian American businessman Wael Hana were charged with the foreign agent count on Thursday in Manhattan federal court. The charge is based on allegations in the original indictment last month that Menendez, 69, abused his authority as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to help Egypt, including giving Egyptian officials “highly sensitive” information about personnel at the US embassy in Cairo.