Washington (CNN) Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort pleaded not guilty at an arraignment Wednesday morning in federal court to a rewritten set of charges that had been levied against him late last week.

The charges in the US District Court for the District of Columbia include allegations of money laundering, conspiracy and making false statements about his foreign lobbying.

Prosecutors and the defense agreed on a September 17 trial start, which means the trial involving the onetime leader of Trump's campaign brought by the special counsel will be just before the November midterm elections, where Democrats are already expected to do well.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson acknowledged that additional federal criminal charges Manafort faces in Virginia, which are based on some overlapping allegations involving his foreign bank accounts and income from his Ukrainian work, could complicate the trial preparation, and could cause Manafort's lawyers and the prosecutors to argue about the same evidence twice. But Manafort has said he'd like to keep the two cases separate, as is his right as a defendant.

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