Sen. Bob Menendez, once top Senate foreign policy chairman, accused of acting as foreign agent

• Federal prosecutors say Sen. Bob Menendez acted as a foreign agent on the behalf of Egypt.
• They claimed in a new indictment that Menendez should have registered as a foreign lobbyist.
• During most of the time of his alleged criminal bribery scheme, Menendez was the top Senate Democrat for foreign policy issues.

Federal prosecutors said on Thursday that Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez acted as an unregistered foreign agent when he accepted alleged bribes in exchange for using his office to benefit the Egyptian government.