ElectionWatch 2024-Senator Menendez To Resign After Guilty Verdict

July 23, 2024

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New Jersey Democratic U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, 70, is expected to tender his resignation from the Senate effective August 20 following his July 16 conviction in a federal corruption trial.

A Manhattan federal jury found Menendez guilty on charges that included: fraud, bribery, obstruction of justice, and acting as a foreign agent for the Egyptian government.

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The senator was convicted of charges that he sold the power of his office to three New Jersey businessmen seeking favors and used his influence to meddle in three different state and federal criminal investigations. The prosecutors alleged that the senator helped a friend get a multimillion-dollar with a Qatari investment fund and helped another keep a contract to provide religious certification for meat bound for Egypt.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, a Democrat, will choose an interim replacement after receiving Menendez's resignation.

The seat was already up for election this fall. Democrats have nominated U.S. Congressman Andy Kim in the Democratic-leaning state. He faces Republican Curtis Bashaw.

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