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　　北京时间8月22日，据ESPN名记Shams Charania报道，明尼苏达森林狼队再次发生重大股权变更。

B | Federal prosecutors filed new charges Thursday against Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., accusing him of violating a prohibition on members of Congress from acting as an agent of a foreign principal.The superseding indictment said Menendez "made multiple requests for the U.S. Department of Justice to commence an investigation against another person for allegedly failing to register under FARA."Menendez faced a sweeping indictment in late September accusing him and his wife of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes in exchange for using the senator's power and influence to seek to protect and enrich the businessman.The superseding indictment includes four new charges and appears to mark the first time a sitting member of Congress has ever been charged with conspiracy for a public official to act as a foreign agent.The indictment alleges Menendez conspired with his wife, Nadine Menendez, and New Jersey businessman Wael Hana to have the senator act as an agent of Egypt.The indictment includes new photos of Menendez, his wife and Hana dining with Egyptian officials that prosecutors said were part of a "corrupt agreement" to provide the senator and his wife with hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for official acts taken to benefit the Egyptians.Once Nadine Menendez informed her friend Hana that she was dating Menendez, prosecutors said the two "arranged a series of meetings and dinners" with Egyptian officials. In exchange for bribe payments, Menendez was meant to help lift a block on U.S. military aide to Egypt, the indictment says."The new allegation that Wael Hana was part of a plot concocted over dinner to enlist Senator Menendez as an agent of the Egyptian Government is as absurd as it is false," Hana's lawyer, Larry Lustberg, said in a statement to ABC News. "As with the other charges in this indictment, Mr. Hana will vigorously defend against this baseless allegation."The new indictment also alleges Nadine Menendez set up an LLC to receive bribe payments, quoting a message from her saying "every time I'm in a middle person for a deal I am asking to get paid and this is my consulting company."As part of the new charges, federal prosecutors sought to seize the senator's home in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, the 2019 Mercedes convertible prosecutors said Nadine Menendez bought with bribe money, nearly half a million dollars in cash and multiple gold bars.Reached by phone, the senator's defense attorney, David Kolansky, said he had no immediate comment.The superseding indictment says Menendez "made multiple requests for the U.S. Department of Justice to commence an investigation against another person for allegedly failing to register under FARA," who appears to be former Republican congressman David Rivera from Florida, who Menendez accused of being an agent for Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro.Menendez, as well as his wife, pleaded not guilty to the first set of charges on Sept. 27.Sen. Marco Rubio, the No. 2 member on the Senate Intelligence Committee behind Menendez, told reporters just after the news broke that he had not yet seen the reporting, but called it concerning."Yeah, I mean, who's in favor of that? I mean, of course it's concerning," Rubio said, but added that Menendez has a right to defend himself."I'm hearing it from you for the first time so if he wants to defend his record, he has a right to do so. And in our country, the government is tasked with the job of proving those cases," Rubio told reporters.Menendez has said he will not step down and strongly denounced the charges in a press conference."Everything I've accomplished I've worked for despite the naysayers and everyone who has underestimated me," he said on Sept. 25. "I recognize this will be the biggest fight yet. But as I have stated throughout this whole process, I firmly believe that when all the facts are presented, not only will I be exonerated, but I still will be New Jersey's senior senator."ABC News' Elizabeth Landers contributed to this report.。

C | 美国商业领袖、硅谷顶级投资机构Dragoneer Investment Group创始人马克-斯塔德（Marc Stad）以45亿美元的球队估值，收购了森林狼及WNBA山猫队最大股东马克-洛尔（Marc Lore）持有的大部分股份。

D | TA森林狼队记Jon Krawczynski也确认了这一消息。

    　　这笔交易标志着森林狼在短短14个月内再次易主。2025年6月，NBA董事会正式批准将球队控股权从老格伦-泰勒（Glen Taylor）转让给马克-洛尔与前MLB巨星亚历克斯-罗德里格斯（Alex Rodriguez）组成的财团。当时收购的估值为15亿美元。如今仅过14个月，球队估值便飙升至45亿美元，洛尔获得了约200%的投资回报。

    　　此次45亿美元的估值在NBA历史上排名第四，仅次于湖人队125亿美元、100亿美元以及凯尔特人队的61亿美元。

    　　出售原因与各方角色

    　　据ESPN及《今日美国》等媒体报道，洛尔出售股权的主要原因是希望将精力集中于其食品配送公司Wonder Group的上市计划。

E | 消息人士透露，洛尔认为自己此前在球队运营和管理上投入了过多精力，希望暂时退居幕后。

    　　交易完成后，马克-斯塔德将成为森林狼和山猫的实际控制方和最大股东。洛尔仍将保留少量股份，继续作为小股东。亚历克斯·罗德里格斯的持股比例有所增加，将继续留在球队所有权团队中。斯塔德的妻子埃莉萨·斯塔德将担任森林狼董事会成员。

    　　联合声明：延续争冠承诺

    　　马克-斯塔德、亚历克斯-罗德里格斯和马克-洛尔在周五发布的联合声明中表示：“多年来我们一直携手合作，共同目标是将森林狼和山猫打造成篮球领域最优秀的组织。