Award-winning songwriter and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda was initially scheduled to give a keynote address Sunday at the event.
’s 13th annual Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration — initially scheduled for Sunday afternoon in Union City — was postponed two days after the senior New Jersey senator was indicted on federal corruption charges.
Menendez — who hosts the gathering each year in his hometown — was indicted Friday for the second time in seven years. The latest indictment alleged federal corruption charges involving his wife and three others in a case that included bars of gold, payments toward a home mortgage, money stuffed into envelopes and jackets, no-show jobs and political influence.
Menendez, who is 69 and up for re-election in 2024, has sternly refuted the charges — calling them a result of a “smear campaign.”and more than a dozen other prominent Democratic leaders in New Jersey on Friday implored Menendez to step down.
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