If Bob Menendez is guilty, boot him: No place for a senator on the takeNY Daily News, Sep 12, 2017, Editorial Board
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez stands trial in federal court, credibly charged with trading lavish gifts for government favors.
If convicted, he must be swiftly ejected from office by a bipartisan vote of his peers — never mind the collateral damage to the Senate Democratic caucus of which he is a part when Jersey’s governor, currently Republican Chris Christie, gets to tap a successor.
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ought to waste no time making that ethical standard clear.
Prosecutors, marshaling mountains of evidence, build a persuasive case that Menendez traded cash and gifts for official aid for ophthalmologist Salomon Melgen, a South Floridian convicted earlier this year of robbing Medicare of more than $100 million.
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