lowlight spirit menendez sits a number of powerful senate committees including the banking housing and urban affairs committee.finance committee and foreign affairs committee. all of which have brought him a huge number of donations. this election cycle is pocket $850,000 from the real estate industry and nearly half a million from securities and investment companies. all of them buying the influence of a center that regulates industries. on top of that menendez is chief of staff for 10 years who went on to become a lobbyist for the inference firm, capital p while working there he rubs in a number of clients including beacon capital and national association of real estate investment and oaktree capital management. all of them, beneficiaries of -- senate housing and banking commission. but the senator going deeper than former staffers. lobbyist and family members have given menendez over $200,000 for his reelection campaign. 48,000 of that came from greenberg traurig, 400,000