Federal prosecutors filed a new criminal charge against Sen. Bob Menendez on Thursday that accuses him of conspiring to use his office to operate on behalf of Egyptian officials without registering as a foreign agent.
The fourth charge against the New Jersey Democrat and former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was added in a superseding indictment filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
After the initial indictment last month, Menendez rejected calls for him to resign from the state’s governor and from more than half the Democrats in the Senate, including his New Jersey colleague, Cory Booker. He has dismissed the charges and said he would be exonerated.
