Sen John Fetterman, D-Pa, gets here for Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s conference with U.S. senators in the Capitol,Sept 21, 2023.
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Sen John Fetterman, D-Pa, will return $5,000 in contributions from a political action committee connected toSen Bob Menendez “in envelopes stuffed with $100 bills” since of the New Jersey Democrat’s indictment on bribery charges, Fetterman’s representative stated.
Fetterman’s project got the contribution from Menendez’s management PAC throughout the 2022 election cycle, according to the nonpartisan website OpenSecrets.
The Pennsylvania senator’s representative informed NBC News, “We are in the process of returning the money in envelopes stuffed with $100 bills.”
The news was initially reported by The Messenger.
Fetterman was the very first Democratic senator to contact Menendez to resign after he and his other half, Nadine Menendez, were charged with 3 bribery-related counts in federal court in New York.
On Monday, 2 other Democrats,Sens Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Peter Welch of Vermont, likewise required Menendez to step down.
“Senator Menendez has broken the public trust and should resign from the U.S. Senate,” Brown stated in a declaration.
Brown leads the effective Senate Banking Committee, which Menendez rests on.
Prosecutors stated that throughout a raid in 2015 on Menendez’s New Jersey house and a safe deposit box, federal representatives discovered more than $480,000 in money, ratings of gold bars and a high-end lorry that were the “fruits of [the couple’s] corrupt bribery contract” with 3 New Jersey business people.Menendez has actually declined to resign.
During a declaration to press reporters Monday, Menendez recommended that the money discovered by detectives “were monies drawn from my personal savings account based on the income that I have lawfully derived.”
