benjamin resigned as governor which is a job he s only been in for seven months. his resignation came hours after he appeared in federal court pleaded not guilty to a five count felony corruption indictment. prosecutors are accusing him of pressuring a donor to give thousands of dollars to his campaign and exchange for him hooking the donor up with a state grand. he s also accused of lying to cover it all up. here s how the new york times describes the sort of medias of the allegations. quote, prosecutors said that mr. benjamin first approach the donor for help in march 2019, months before mr. benjamin announced a campaign for state comptroller. prosecutors say the donor told mr. benjamin he was wary of pressuring his network of donors to give me on what they had already contributed to his charity, the friends of public school harlem, a group that organized giveaways of school supplies and groceries to needy families. mr. benjamin replied, quote, let me see what i can do, according to
congressman. getting arrested is like a right of passage for new york state politicians at this point. but today, we have a new one. today, the lieutenant governor of new york, democrat brian benjamin resigned as governor which is a job he s only been in for seven months. his resignation came hours after he appeared in federal court pleaded not guilty to a five count felony corruption indictment. prosecutors are accusing him of pressuring a donor to give thousands of dollars to his campaign and exchange for him hooking the donor up with a state grand. he s also accused of lying to cover it all up. here s how the new york times describes the sort of medias of the allegations. quote, prosecutors said that mr. benjamin first approach the donor for help in march 2019, months before mr. benjamin announced a campaign for state comptroller. prosecutors say the donor told mr. benjamin he was wary of pressuring his network of donors to give me on what they had already contributed to his charity
benjamin resigned as lieutenant governor which is a job he s only been seven months. this comes after he pleaded not guilty to a five count felony corruption indictment. prosecutors are accusing him of pressuring a donor to give thousands of dollars to his campaign, in change for him hooking the donor up with a state grant. he s also accused of lying to cover it all up. here s now the new york times describes the allegations, quote, prosecutors said that mr. benjamin first approached the donor for help in march 2019, months before mr. benjamin announced the campaign for state comptroller. prosecutors say he told mr. benjamin that he would be challenging to give to the charity, friends of public school harlem. mr. benjamin replied, quote, let me see what i can do. according to the indictment. what he allegedly did was
and my friendship, into something that is improper. they are dead wrong. and i am confident that they will be proven so. new jersey senator bob menendez a couple of hours ago tonight insisting he s innocent after the justice department dropped a 14-count felony corruption indictment on his head earlier today. joining us is john stanton for buzz feed news. mr. stanton, lovely to see you. thank you for being here. good to be here. bob menendez tonight said he s not going anywhere. defiant about the charges. does he have a choice? does he actually have to step down? can the democrats, for example, make him step down if they want him to? no, they can t make him step down. theoretically he could be maybe impeached. michael grimm did the same thing a couple of months ago, and he had things with the justice department and he stepped down. i think that is certainly a potential option here for senator menendez. a bit of a difference here is
i don t know, apparently that s splitting hairs the california senate democrats voted to allow the felon to keep his seat. and then you deserve another one, the democrats in california have that precious super majority by two seats. here is state senator number two explaining why they don t have that super majority any more. when the senate convened in late february this year one seat was empty, because ron calderon was excused on personal business. his personal business was, that he was being arraigned in los angeles on federal corruption charges that could imprison him for decades. the democrats had their super majority by two seats, one senator gets eight felony convictions. the second gets a 24 count felony corruption indictment.