Disgraced U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) appears to be more unpopular than North Korea’s communist dictator, Kim Jong-Un. In 2018, Ipsos polled Americans regarding the favorability of a number of celebrities and foreign leaders. North Korea’s Kim registered a 12 percent approval rating. Disgraced U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, according to a new Stockton University survey, has just an eight percent approval rating among New Jersey residents. An impressive 71 percent of respondents said Menendez should resign from the Senate.
The National Pulse previously reported that Menendez, age 69, was charged by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) with three counts: conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, and conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right. Federal prosectors argue Menendez worked to disrupt the prosecution of long-time donor and associate Jose Uribe and essentially acted as an unregistered foreign agent for Arab Republic of Egypt.
Menendez and his wife Nadine received payments in cash, gold bars, and a luxury vehicle for their efforts on behalf of Uribe and the Egyptian government. The scheme to ensure military aid for Egypt ran through Menendez’s wife and Wael “Will” Hana, an Egyptian-American businessman.
On October 13th Federal prosecutors filed a superseding indictment alleging Menendez “provided sensitive U.S. Government information and took other steps that secretly aided the Government of Egypt.” The new charges added by the DOJ could see the New Jersey Democrat face an additional two-years in prison for failing to register as a foreign agent on behalf of the Egyptian government.
