What occurred
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez was convicted on 16 counts stemming from a “sweeping scheme to promote his workplace to overseas powers and crooked businessmen,” The New York Occasions mentioned. Menendez is “solely the seventh sitting U.S. senator to be convicted of a federal crime.”
Who mentioned what
After being discovered responsible by a New York jury on Tuesday, Menendez informed reporters that he was “deeply disillusioned” and that the choice would “put in danger each member of america Senate, when it comes to what they suppose a overseas agent can be.”Â
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