(Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors pursuing a corruption case against Democratic U.S. Senator Bob Menendez on Thursday brought a new charge against him, accusing him of engaging in a conspiracy to act as a foreign agent for the Egyptian government.
The new charge was included in a revised indictment filed against the Democratic senator for New Jersey in federal court in Manhattan. His trial on corruption charges will begin in May.
Prosecutors have stated that they believe that Menendez “provided sensitive U.S. Government information and took other steps that secretly aided the Government of Egypt.”
The Democratic senator for New Jersey has thus far resisted calls for his resignation.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Susan Heavey in Washington, Editing by Franklin Paul)
