New York Post
By Isabel Vincent
Published Aug. 14, 2025, 5:01 p.m. ET
Bob Menendez advised Egyptian officials how to cover up their part in the grisly murder of Saudi Arabian dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
This was an egregious human rights abuse and the biggest betrayal to the values he was elected to uphold as a US senator.
The disgraced former New Jersey Democrat — now serving an 11-year sentence for corruption and conspiracy to act as a foreign agent for Egypt and Qatar — had coached his high-level Egyptian contacts how to respond to a grilling about Khashoggi’s assassination in a Saudi embassy before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in June 2021, court records show.