New Menendez Indictment Reignites Calls That He Resign, as Prosecutors Accuse Senator of Being ‘Foreign Agent’ for Egypt While Leading Foreign Relations Committee

‘Senator Menendez should not be a U.S. Senator. He should have been gone long ago,’ Senator Fetterman says. ‘It is time for every one of my colleagues in the Senate to join me in expelling Senator Menendez.’

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Senator Menendez leaves federal court on September 27, 2023, at New York. AP/Seth Wenig

Critics of Senator Menendez are doubling down on calls for him to resign after a superseding indictment accused the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of acting as a foreign agent for Egypt while occupying the Senate’s premier foreign policy seat.

Prosecutors at the U.S. attorney’s office at Manhattan have added new conspiracy charges alleging that Mr. Menendez, his wife, Nadine Menendez, and a New Jersey businessman, Wael Hana, worked to allow Mr. Menendez to act as a foreign agent.

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