The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics did not formally punish anyone in 2024 — despite receiving 158 complaints that year of alleged violations of Senate rules, according to a new committee report reviewed by NOTUS.
No, not even former Sen. Robert Menendez, who a judge sentenced last month to 11 years in federal prison on a bribery conviction. Menendez skirted Senate Ethics Committee comeuppance because the committee “lost jurisdiction for its adjudicatory review” when the senator resigned in August.
With this latest report, lawmakers officially marked the 18th year in a row that the notoriously secretive committee failed to formally punish anyone within its jurisdiction, which includes Senate staffers and senators.