Fetterman: I’ll Return Bob Menendez’ Donations in Cash Envelopes
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Fetterman: I’ll Return Bob Menendez’ Donations in Cash Envelopes.
John Fetterman, the first senator to call on Bob Menendez to resign, plans to give back the $5,000 that the embattled New Jersey Democratic senator gave the Pennsylvania Democrat’s Senate campaign in 2022.
And Fetterman wants to do it in envelopes full of hundred-dollar bills.
“We are in process of returning the money,” said Joe Calvello, a Fetterman spokesman, “in envelopes stuffed with $100 bills.”
The move is a call-back to Menendez and his wife Nadine being indicted Friday on federal charges of engaging in "a corrupt relationship with three New Jersey associates and businessmen." The indictment was dramatic, featuring allegations of bribes paid by a shiny, new Mercedes-Benz C-300 convertible, gold bars valued at more than $100,000, and stacks of one-hundred-dollar bills atop a jacket with Menendez’s name on it.
Menendez has roundly denied wrongdoing, including at a press conference in New Jersey on Monday.
But the allegations were enough for Fetterman to break with the rest of Senate Democrats to become the first – and so far only – Democratic member of the legislative body to call on the New Jersey senator to step down.
"Senator Menendez should resign. He’s entitled to the presumption of innocence, but he cannot continue to wield influence over national policy, especially given the serious and specific nature of the allegations," Fetterman posted on Saturday. "I hope he chooses an honorable exit and focuses on his trial."
Menendez’s leadership committee, New Millennium PAC, gave Fetterman’s Senate campaign $5,000 weeks before the Democrat won his Pennsylvania Senate seat in 2022, according to a filing with the Federal Election Commission.
After Fetterman called for him to resign, the senator’s team began working to give Menendez’s money back.
On Monday, according to Calvello, Fetterman’s campaign started the process of returning the money.
It is unclear whether they will be able to make the transfer via envelopes stuffed with hundred-dollar bills, but the spokesman said that was Fetterman’s desire.
A Menendez spokesperson did not immediately respond to The Messenger’s request for comment.
Menendez responded to the calls for his resignation, which included New Jersey’s Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy and other state leaders, by saying he intended to “continue to fight for the people of New Jersey with the same success I’ve had for the past five decades.”
“This is the same record of success these very same leaders have lauded all along. It is not lost on me how quickly some are rushing to judge a Latino and push him out of his seat. I am not going anywhere,” Menendez said in a statement.
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Fetterman: I’ll Return Bob Menendez’ Donations in Cash Envelopes.
John Fetterman, the first senator to call on Bob Menendez to resign, plans to give back the $5,000 that the embattled New Jersey Democratic senator gave the Pennsylvania Democrat’s Senate campaign in 2022.
And Fetterman wants to do it in envelopes full of hundred-dollar bills.
“We are in process of returning the money,” said Joe Calvello, a Fetterman spokesman, “in envelopes stuffed with $100 bills.”
The move is a call-back to Menendez and his wife Nadine being indicted Friday on federal charges of engaging in "a corrupt relationship with three New Jersey associates and businessmen." The indictment was dramatic, featuring allegations of bribes paid by a shiny, new Mercedes-Benz C-300 convertible, gold bars valued at more than $100,000, and stacks of one-hundred-dollar bills atop a jacket with Menendez’s name on it.
Menendez has roundly denied wrongdoing, including at a press conference in New Jersey on Monday.
But the allegations were enough for Fetterman to break with the rest of Senate Democrats to become the first – and so far only – Democratic member of the legislative body to call on the New Jersey senator to step down.
"Senator Menendez should resign. He’s entitled to the presumption of innocence, but he cannot continue to wield influence over national policy, especially given the serious and specific nature of the allegations," Fetterman posted on Saturday. "I hope he chooses an honorable exit and focuses on his trial."
Menendez’s leadership committee, New Millennium PAC, gave Fetterman’s Senate campaign $5,000 weeks before the Democrat won his Pennsylvania Senate seat in 2022, according to a filing with the Federal Election Commission.
After Fetterman called for him to resign, the senator’s team began working to give Menendez’s money back.
On Monday, according to Calvello, Fetterman’s campaign started the process of returning the money.
It is unclear whether they will be able to make the transfer via envelopes stuffed with hundred-dollar bills, but the spokesman said that was Fetterman’s desire.
A Menendez spokesperson did not immediately respond to The Messenger’s request for comment.
Menendez responded to the calls for his resignation, which included New Jersey’s Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy and other state leaders, by saying he intended to “continue to fight for the people of New Jersey with the same success I’ve had for the past five decades.”
“This is the same record of success these very same leaders have lauded all along. It is not lost on me how quickly some are rushing to judge a Latino and push him out of his seat. I am not going anywhere,” Menendez said in a statement.
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