Given current events, this looks a lot more sinister:
A powerful US senator who was indicted last month on corruption charges was hit with an additional charge on Thursday — allegedly acting as an unregistered agent of Egypt.
Senator Bob Menendez, 69, who has stepped down “temporarily” as head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has pleaded not guilty to allegations that he took actions on behalf of Egyptian officials in exchange for bribes. He has defied calls to resign.
A superseding indictment filed by prosecutors on Thursday accused Menendez, his wife, Nadine Menendez, 56, and Wael Hana, an Egyptian-American businessman, of failing to register with the US government under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey, is accused of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, including gold bars and a Mercedes Benz automobile, between 2018 and 2022 in exchange for using his influence on behalf of the Egyptian government.
According to the indictment, Menendez “took a series of acts on behalf of Egypt, including on behalf of Egyptian military and intelligence officials, and conspired to do so with” his wife and Hana.
https://insiderpaper.com/high-ranking-us-senator-facing-new-egypt-linked-charge/
Suspicious, yeah. Menendez had better hope to his most high favorite diety that nothing he and the Egyptian snake had anything, ANYTHING, to do with Egypt helping or not helping Israel keep an eye on the Gazas.
Egypt was helping awhile back by watching for border tunnels into Gaza. When they found one they used it for a sewage disposal site. I hope they are keeping up that good work.