‘I have a favor to ask you’: Prosecutors zero in on Bob Menendez’s relationship with his wife

They had only been dating for a few months, but Nadine Arslanian, who would eventually become Sen. Bob Menendez’s second wife, had a very particular request for the New Jersey Democrat.

In a 2018 text message about his upcoming remarks at the Egyptian Embassy, Arslanian asked, “could you please” discuss Cairo’s improving relations with the International Monetary Fund and other capital projects, including the “new Suez Canal.”