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of 16 counts in a bribery and public corruption scheme, was nowhere to be found during the Senate’s final summer working days before vacating his seat.“I think he’s going to be laying low,” Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin , who has not spoken with Menendez since the conviction, told theThe Senate embarked Thursday afternoon on its annual August recess that will last until Sept. 9.
Menendez’s postponed Aug. 20 resignation will allow him to collect an extra month’s pay of his $174,000 annual salary. His last full paycheck will be disbursed on Aug. 20, followed by a partial paycheck for his final few days on Sept. 5, according to the Senate’s Murphy has yet to name Menendez’s interim replacement until the November election, in which Rep. Andy Kim is expected to win.“If he wasn’t going to resign, he should have been expelled,” Durbin told reporters in the days following the conviction. “I think he knows the sensitivity of the situation. I don’t think he should be treated as a sitting senator when it comes to anything confidential.
In what are believed to be his most recent public remarks, a defiant Menendez maintained his innocence to reporters gathered outside the courthouse after the verdict.
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