New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was found guilty on all 16 federal charges of being part of an elaborate political bribery and corruption scheme. NBC’s Ryan Nobles reports for TODAY on the growing calls for him to resign.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., has told allies that he will resign from Congress after being convicted on federal corruption charges, two people directly familiar with those conversations tell NBC News. Menendez, who had been defiant for months in the face of calls from dozens of Senate Democrats to resign, appears to have finally relented after the guilty verdict and growing threats to expel him if he refused.
But he remained a voting member of the panel and in the full Senate, even while he was accused of abusing his power to benefit foreign governments. Menendez and his wife, Nadine, were charged in September with conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud and conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right, according to the initial indictment against him.
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