Bob Menendez is to resign from the US Senate, according to US media, after being convicted of accepting bribes including gold bars to help foreign governments.
The New Jersey Democrat had been resisting resignation calls - including from Democratic Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer. His resignation comes a day after the US Senate Ethics Committee began a review on his expulsion.
Menendez - formerly the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee - was found guilty on 16 counts related to corruption. He faces decades in prison.
He has maintained his innocence, saying outside court after his conviction that he “never violated my public oath”.
He’ll have more time to spend at home with the gold bars the FBI didn’t manage to find.
“Never violated my public oath” is not the same as “I never committed these crimes.”
out of curiosity, did his public oath, at any time, contain any coticil about not committing crimes? if it didn’t, it probably should.
ah, resigning, something that Clarence Thomas will never do
Gold bars? Seriously? That is cartoonishly corrupt…
How do they compell this or is he doing it “voluntarily”?
Assholes like this never do anything deprecatory until they are forced to…
About damned time.
it’s nice to see the trash taking itself out!
This trash has been sitting there rotting for a few years, but yeah it’s nice to see it finally grow legs and take itself out
See ya, bitch, enjoy prison! Democrats/Independents aren’t corrupt. We don’t want our leaders committing crimes, no matter which side they’re a part of.
I found it funny that I saw he resigned and immediately thought, “Bet he is a Democrat because Republicans will demand they get fired”.
And yep.
