The head of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Robert Menendez, was accused of accepting bribes “worth hundreds of thousands of dollars”
Democratic Senator from New Jersey, head of the Foreign Relations Committee, Robert Menendez, was charged with corruption, The New York Times reports. Menendez is accused of using his official position in a number of corruption schemes at home and abroad. Thus, one of the charges states that the senator passed on confidential US government information to the Egyptian leadership.