Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin became the highest-ranking Senate Democrat to say Sen. Robert Menendez should quit over bribery and public corruption charges.
“Leaders in New Jersey, including the governor and my Senate colleague Cory Booker, have made it clear that Sen. Menendez can no longer serve,” Mr. Durbin of Illinois posted on X. “He should step down.”
Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, the No. 3 Democrat, and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, fourth in the party, have said Mr. Menendez should leave office, in addition to the Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, chairman of the Senate Democrats’ campaign arm. New York prosecutors say Mr. Menendez and his wife, Nadine Arslanian, received lavish gifts from three New Jersey businessmen — including around $500,000 in cash, gold bars worth more than $100,000 and a luxury car — in exchange for information to benefit the tycoons and the Egyptian government.
He and his wife arrived at an arraignment hearing before a federal judge in New York Wednesday and was expected to plead not guilty.
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