A superseding complaint against Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez alleges he and his wife violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act—and revealed a slew of new details.
The senior senator from New Jersey and former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was an illegal unregistered operative for the Egyptian government, an updated criminal complaint alleges.who they say bribed him, but of the regime in Cairo itself.
This crisis had led to several U.S. lawmakers freezing aid to the country. The indictment notes Menendez subsequently conducted web research on the victim and the incident, while the unnamed Egyptian official messaged Hana in Arabic promising that if the senator resolved the matter, "he will sit very comfortably.” Hana allegedly answered “orders, consider it done.” The official then advanced other materials to Hana that he forwarded to Menendez’s wife, and which she passed to her husband.
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