Gold Bar Bob Menendez acted against Americans to help cover up Khashoggi’s murder
By Thomas Jason Anderson
Published Nov. 24, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ETUntil now, the story of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder was simple: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was solely responsible for the October 2018 killing and dismemberment in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
But the true story is far more complicated.
It involves the machinations of a corrupt senator who received a cache of gold bars to cover up the Egyptian government’s role in the murder.
The fresh revelations are highlighted in “Gold Bar Bob: The Downfall of the Most Corrupt U.S. Senator,” the new book I wrote with New York Post reporter Isabel Vincent.
We show how Democrat Bob Menendez acted as a mob boss from New Jersey and played a central role in concealing the truth about one of the most horrific murders of a journalist — a permanent US resident who had championed the Arab Spring, a series of popular uprisings that began in 2010 and spread throughout the Middle East.
No one else has reported the role of Menendez — who’s serving an 11-year prison sentence for bribery and other felonies — with the Egyptians in the months leading up to the murder and for years after as head of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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