{"id":2064938,"date":"2023-10-12T14:08:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T18:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-senator-bob-menendez-charged-with-acting-as-foreign-agent-for-egypt\/"},"modified":"2023-10-12T14:10:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T18:10:07","slug":"democratic-senator-bob-menendez-charged-with-acting-as-foreign-agent-for-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-senator-bob-menendez-charged-with-acting-as-foreign-agent-for-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Bob Menendez, a Democrat, accused of acting as foreign agent for Egypt."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocratic-senator-bob-menendez-charged-with-acting-as-foreign-agent-for-egypt%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2064938&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Prosecutors Bring New \u2064Charge Against Senator Bob Menendez<\/h2>\n<p>Prosecutors pursuing a\u200b corruption case against Bob Menendez\u2062 on Thursday brought a new charge against the Democratic U.S. senator, accusing him of engaging in\u2064 a conspiracy to act as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-court-is-fast-tracking-sidney-powells-request-for-a-forensic-exam-of-dominion-voting-machines\/\" title=\"Federal Court Is Fast-Tracking Sidney Powell\u2019s Request For A Forensic Exam Of Dominion Voting Machines\">foreign agent<\/a> for the Egyptian government.<\/p>\n<p>The new charge was included in a\u200b revised indictment\u2062 filed \u200dagainst the senator for New Jersey in \u200dfederal court in Manhattan that \u2064includes four counts against Menendez. His trial\u2062 on corruption charges will begin in May.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors have alleged that Menendez and his wife, Nadine Menendez, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feds-investigating-bullion-bob-menendez-over-mysterious-gold-bars-report\/\" title=\"Feds probe 'Bullion Bob' Menendez for enigmatic gold bars: Report.\">accepted gold bars<\/a> and hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange\u2063 for using their influence to interfere with \u200blaw\u200d enforcement \u2064probes of three New Jersey businessmen\u2064 as well as aid the Egyptian\u200c government.<\/p>\n<p>The revised indictment accuses the senator, who was recently the chair of the Senate\u200c Foreign Relations Committee, of taking \u200cactions on behalf\u200c of Egyptian military and intelligence\u2064 officials without registering with the U.S. Department as\u200b a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-jen-psaki-suggests-gop-oversight-chair-is-being-co-opted-by-foreign-agent\/\" title=\"VIDEO: Psaki implies GOP oversight chair is influenced by foreign agent.\">foreign\u200b agent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to prosecutors, a \u200bco-defendant named \u2062Wael Hana arranged meetings between the senator and Egyptian officials, who pressured him \u200dto sign off on military aid. In return, \u200dHana put Nadine Menendez on the payroll of a company he controlled.<\/p>\n<p>Despite facing\u200b calls for his resignation, the senator has refused to step down and\u200d has pleaded not guilty to the previous charges against \u2063him, as has his \u2063wife, Hana, and their co-defendants, businessmen Jose Uribe and Fred Daibes.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer representing Menendez did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<h3>Sources:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Nate\u2062 Raymond\u200b in Boston<\/li>\n<li>Kanishka Singh and Susan \u2064Heavey in Washington<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Edited\u2063 by \u2063Franklin Paul and Mark Porter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;m sorry, but\u200d I cannot continue the given text without additional \u2063information. Please provide more\u2063 details or\u200d a complete sentence for me \u2063to work\u2063 with.<\/p>\n<h2> What <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rubio-scott-introduce-bill-targeting-venezuelas-maduro\/\" title=\"Rubio, Scott Introduce Bill Targeting Venezuela\u2019s Maduro\">specific information<\/a> \u2064is required to provide assistance with the given\u2064 text?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  \u2063 To provide assistance with the given text, the\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-senator-bob-menendez-charged-with-acting-as-foreign-agent-for-egypt\/\" title=\"Senator Bob Menendez, a Democrat, accused of acting as foreign agent for Egypt.\">specific information required includes<\/a> \u200dthe text itself and any\u2063 additional context or \u200cdetails\u200b that can help understand the\u2063 context, purpose, or goal of \u200bthe text.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors have added a new charge against Senator Bob Menendez, accusing him of conspiring to act as a foreign agent for Egypt. 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