The New Jersey school will drop the Menendez name it adopted in 2013 now that the senator was found guilty of bribery.
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., listens during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Dec. 7, 2023, in Washington.The city's mayor told the newspaper the name change would be completed before the start of the new school year, a decade since Menendez's name was assigned to the facility back in 2013.It's only the latest example of a disgraced public office holder's name being stripped from a public building or educational institute in New Jersey.
Williams Jr. had been honored — with a Metropark train station named after him — in 1979. Two years later he was convicted for bribery and jailed in thewill step down from his Senate seat Aug. 20 after his resignation was formally entered into the congressional record this past week.of using political influence to benefit businessmen in his state.
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