Disgraced former U.S. Senator Bob Menendez was mailed a ballot to vote in tomorrow’s election despite being incarcerated in a federal prison for taking bribes since June 17, but he has not returned it.
The Bergen County Clerk’s office mailed a vote-by-mail ballot to the former Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman on September 16.
He is serving an 11-year prison sentence for taking gold bars, a luxury Mercedes, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash in exchange for acting as a foreign agent of the government of Egypt while serving in the Senate.
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, which was responsible for contacting Bergen County with an order to remove him from the voter rolls, has not done so. Menendez is set up to automatically receive vote-by-mail ballots until he either opts out or until federal prosecutors order his removal.
Co-defendants Fred Daibes and Wael Hanna also remain on the voter rolls.
The ex-senator’s wife, Nadine Menendez, was sentenced to 54 months in prison on September 11; she is due to report to prison in July. She is permitted to vote until she enters prison. Bob and Nadine Menendez voted by mail in the June Democratic primary.
Nadine Menendez has filed a party declaration card and is now a registered Republican.
