Menendez confirms Simunovich is still his Finance Chairman

U.S. Senator Robert Menendez’s campaign has confirmed that New Jersey Turnpike Authority Chairman Joseph Simunovich remains as their Finance Chairman. “He is our finance chair,” said Matt Miller, a spokesman for Menendez.The Record reported today that the state Commission on Ethical Standards has found that Simunovich “violated ethics laws when he took free trips aboard a jet co-owned by one of the highway’s biggest contractors.” A Menendez spokesman “said he could not say” if Simunovich, who spent twelve years as a Hudson County Freeholder, was “still serving in that capacity,” the Record reported.