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John,
The allegations, based on an FBI investigation and detailed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York, are shocking in their scope and specificity.
The grand jury indictment charges that, over several years, Sen. Robert Menendez and his wife receivedhundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, including cash, gold bars, furniture, mortgage payments, and even a Mercedes Benz, in exchange for preferential treatment for three New Jersey businessmen and the Egyptian government -- which, as Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Senator was well positioned to obtain.
Sen. Menendez may be legally innocent unless and until proven guilty, but a Senator must earn the respect and trust of their constituents, and these allegations are so detailed and so far reaching that the public cannot in good conscience maintain any trust in the Senator.
Sign the petition today to demand that Sen. Robert Menendez must resign immediately. The Senator’s actions have harmed the interests of those he was sworn to protect. The state of New Jersey, and the nation itself, needs and deserves principled representation in the U.S. Senate.
The indictment describes multiple illegal activities Sen. Menendez allegedly performed to benefit his benefactors. These range from pressuring a Department of Agriculture official to preserve an Egyptian business monopoly that paid Menendez’s wife for a no-show job, to disrupting a federal criminal prosecution against one of the men, to recommending the President nominate a U.S. Attorney whom he believed he could influence in the criminal proceedings.
Sen. Menendez has stepped down from his Chairmanship for now, “until the matter has been resolved,” but this is not enough. Among those calling for his resignation are New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, most of the New Jersey Democratic congressional delegation, and other prominent Democratic lawmakers including Sen. John Fetterman and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Add your name to those calling for Sen. Menendez’ resignation now.
The U.S. Senate cannot function when its members lose the trust of the public.
- Amanda
Amanda Ford, Director
Democracy for America
Advocacy Fund
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