U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, has been hospitalized, political consultant Sam Riddle told reporters Thursday morning.

Riddle told The Associated Press Thursday he'd spoken to Monica Conyers, Conyers' wife. He said he didn't know why he was hospitalized or what his condition was.

The news comes amid several accusations of sexual harassment by former members of Conyers' staff.

On Monday, Nov. 20, the website Buzzfeed News reported Conyers, 88, settled a complaint in 2015 from a woman alleging she was fired because she rejected his sexual advances. Buzzfeed reported the woman was paid more than $27,000 from Conyers' taxpayer-funded office to settle the complaint under a confidentiality agreement.

BuzzFeed also published documents from some former congressional staff members who describe seeing Conyers touch other female staffers inappropriately, including rubbing their legs and backs or requesting sexual favors.

On Thursday, one Conyers accuser, Marion Brown, came forward to speak on NBC's Today Show and said she'd been subjected to multiple propositions of sex over more than a decade before she was fired.

A former staffer, Deanna Maher, told The Detroit News earlier this week that Conyers was sexually inappropriate to her several times in the late 1990s. Another woman filed a lawsuit against Conyers earlier this year, but later dropped it after unsuccessful efforts to seal court documents.

Riddle told WWJ the people accusing Conyers "are being given way too much credibility" and said the names of the accusers are not new to the Congressman.

Conyers, 88, is the longest serving member of the U.S. House. He gave up his leadership position on the House Judiciary Committee Sunday, and he is currently the subject of a House Ethics Committee investigation.