A | NEW YORK -- U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez returns to court Monday to enter an expected not guilty plea to a conspiracy charge alleging that he acted as an agent of the Egyptian government even as he chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.Menendez, 69, was scheduled to appear in the afternoon before Judge Sidney H. Stein at federal court in Manhattan.The Democrat stepped down from his powerful post leading the Senate committee after he was charged last month. Prosecutors said the senator and his wife, Nadine Menendez, accepted bribes of cash, gold bars and a luxury car over the past five years from three New Jersey businessmen in exchange for a variety of corrupt acts.The other defendants entered not guilty charges to a superseding indictment last week. The senator was permitted to delay his arraignment so he could tend to Senate duties. He has said that throughout his whole life he has been loyal to the United States and that he will show his innocence.Menendez has resisted calls from more than 30 Democrats that he resign.The rewritten indictment added a charge alleging that the senator, his wife and one of the businessmen conspired to have Menendez act as an agent of the government of Egypt and Egyptian officials.As a member of Congress, Menendez is prohibited from acting as an agent for a foreign government.Menendez is accused of passing information to the Egyptians about the staff at the U.S. embassy in Cairo, ghostwriting a letter on Egypt's behalf intended to influence fellow senators and urging the U.S. State Department to get more involved in international negotiations to block a dam project Egypt opposed, among other things.Last week, Nadine Menendez and a businessman, Wael Hana, pleaded not guilty to the superseding indictment.Both of them were charged with conspiring with the senator to use him as an agent of the government of Egypt and its officials. The charge carries a potential penalty of up to five years in prison.。 加密货币高台跳水! 这个周末,加密货币集体大跳水。截至发稿,艾达币、XRP、XLM大跌超12%,以太坊跌超5%,比特币跌2.40%。据CoinGlass数据统计,最近24小时,全球共有17.92万人爆仓,爆仓金额接近9亿美元。其中,超八成为多单爆仓。 市场分析人士认为,比特币等加密货币此轮大幅跳水,主要受两重因素叠加影响:其一是前期获利盘集中回吐,形成短期抛压;其二是国际地缘政治局势依旧紧张,避险需求令风险资产承压。 据央视新闻报道,当地时间22日,伊朗最高国家安全委员会秘书雷扎伊表示,任何参与对伊朗实施经济限制的国家,都被伊朗视为敌人。 加密货币集体跳水,17.92万人爆仓 8月22日至23日,加密货币市场集体跳水,截至记者发稿时,24小时内,比特币价格下跌2.40%报7.66万美元,以太坊跌5.29%报2383美元。其他加密货币也纷纷跳水,艾达币大跌14.05%,XRP跌12.21%,XLM跌13.17%,BNB、Solana等跌超5%。 根据CoinGlass数据统计,最近24小时,全球共有17.92万人爆仓,爆仓总金额为8.82亿美元。
B | 其中,多单爆仓7.53亿美元,空单爆仓1.29亿美元。最大单笔爆仓单发生在Binance-ETHUSDC,价值2243万美元。 在此次跳水前,比特币已连续五个交易日(8月17日至21日)上涨,价格自6.3万美元一度冲高至6.93万美元,触发大量空头爆仓。 近期加密货币市场乐观情绪回归,核心催化剂是美国财政部长贝森特于8月19日宣布将长期国债回购规模至少扩大一倍,此举压低长端收益率,提振风险偏好,迫使交易员紧急回补数十亿美元空头头寸。