From a New York Times story by Benjamin Weiser, Nicholas Fandos, and William K. Rashbaum headlined “Menendez amd Wife Face Charges of Plotting to Make Him a Foreign Agent”:

Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat charged last month with taking bribes in exchange for lucrative political favors, faced a stunning new accusation on Thursday — that he conspired to act as an agent of Egypt even as he served as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.