Michael Soliman, a top New Jersey aide to Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), is slated to join Mercury Public Affairs as a managing director later this month.

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Soliman has served as state director and managed the 2012 re-election of Menendez, who chairs the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He was previously an aide to the campaigns of ex-Rep. Steve Rothman, Gov. Jon Corzine and the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg, all Garden State Democrats.

He joins Mercury on Sept. 17.

Omnicom-owned Mercury has an office in Westfield, N.J., led by partner and former strategist to Gov. Chris Christie, Michael DuHaime. The firm works PR for lottery operator GTECH, which is part of a joint venture tapped in June to run the $2.7B New Jersey lottery, previously operated by the state.