Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., speaks throughout a Senate Foreign Relations Committee listening to in March 2023, in Washington, D.C. Menendez faces a brand new allegation that he used his clout to assist a businessman get take care of a Qatari funding fund.

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Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., speaks throughout a Senate Foreign Relations Committee listening to in March 2023, in Washington, D.C. Menendez faces a brand new allegation that he used his clout to assist a businessman get take care of a Qatari funding fund.

Jose Luis Magana/AP file photograph

NEW YORK — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez launched a member of the Qatari royal household and principal in an organization with ties to the federal government of Qatar to a New Jersey businessman earlier than the corporate invested tens of millions of {dollars} within the businessman’s actual property venture, a rewritten indictment alleged Tuesday.

The newest model of the indictment against the Democrat in Manhattan federal court docket didn’t determine the member of the Qatari royal household, however it mentioned the person was a principal of the Qatari Investment Co.

The indictment mentioned the Qatari investor then thought-about and negotiated a multimillion-dollar funding in the true property venture deliberate by Fred Daibes, considered one of three businessmen charged within the indictment together with the senator and his spouse. All of them have pleaded not guilty.

Messages left with attorneys and a spokesperson for Menendez weren’t instantly returned.

Tim Donohue, a lawyer for Daibes, mentioned he had no quick remark.

No new costs had been added to the newest model of an indictment that already charged Menendez in a bribery conspiracy that allegedly enriched the senator and his spouse with money, gold bars and a luxurious automobile. The allegations involving Qatar occurred from 2021 by means of 2023, the indictment mentioned.

After his September arrest, the senator gave up his place as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He has resisted requires him to resign from his Senate seat.

According to the indictment, Menendez accepted money and gold bars in alternate for searching for to induce the Qatari Investment Co. to speculate with Daibes, together with by taking actions favorable to the federal government of Qatar.

The indictment mentioned that whereas the Qatari Investment Co. was contemplating its funding in the true property improvement owned by Daibes, Menendez made a number of public statements supporting the federal government of Qatar after which supplied them to Daibes so he may share them with the Qatari investor and a Qatari authorities official.

In an earlier model of the indictment, Menendez, his spouse and one of many businessmen had been charged with conspiring to illegally use the senator as an agent of the Egyptian authorities.

Judge Sidney H. Stein, who’s presiding over the case, refused final week to increase a May 5 trial date after protection attorneys requested extra time to organize for a trial that they mentioned already consists of over 6.7 million paperwork.