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Adam Gabbatt

AOC joins calls for Bob Menendez to resign from Senate over corruption charges

Bob Menendez during Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
The FBI said it discovered a ‘lot of gold’ in a search of Menendez’s home in addition to about $500,000 stuffed in envelopes, closets and jacket pockets. Photograph: José Luis Magaña/AP

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has joined the calls for Bob Menendez to resign, after the Democratic US senator from New Jersey was charged with accepting gold bars, a Mercedes-Benz and other gifts as bribes.

Speaking on Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez said the charges against Menendez were “extremely serious” and he should step down.

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