Democrat US Senator resigns in aftermath conviction on corruption

US Senator Bob Menendez resigns in the aftermath of his conviction on corruption charges including bribery and acting as an agent for Egypt’s government, bowing to pressure from fellow Democrats to give up the job.

Democratic New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy will appoint a replacement for Menendez, who has represented New Jersey in the Senate since 2006 and served as chairman of the influential Foreign Relations Committee before giving up that post after being charged last year.

 

Bob Menendez was a pretty successful fraud. After he survived his last hung jury trial he should have just decided to stop being a fraud. Of course, the most successful known fraud in this country is Donald J Trump. He's been convicted of 34 felony counts of fraud and also had his fraudulent school closed down. He also had a fraudulent charity that was closed down. I say he's our most successful known fraud. He is adored by tens of millions of people that just love his lies.

 

You forgot to add, that he is a Russian Spy.
And who knows, he maybe next US president.
I'm bad in predictions.
Look what happened in a week or two.
100 days is a lot of time.

The Supreme Court ruled that presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution for "official actions" they take while in office.

In May, Trump's conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records was based in part on evidence of meetings and communications that occurred while he was president.

Donald Trump's 11 July sentencing in his hush money case may be delayed after his lawyers asked the judge to set aside his conviction in the wake of Supreme Court's immunity ruling.

In a letter to Justice Juan Merchan, Manhattan prosecutors said that while they believed Trump's motion to overturn his conviction to be "without merit", they did not object to his request to delay the sentencing.