U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez

archer wrote:

pineinthegrass wrote:

archer wrote: Am I the only one who finds the timing of this suspicious? Just as Menendez is set to take over John Kerry's spot on the Foreign Relations Committee? And it started with a very conservative blog.

It's actually not a recent story. It goes back to at least Oct 31st...

http://www.285bound.com/285forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=24121&hilit=menendez

I'm not sure that timing makes it any less suspicious, that was right before his reelection.

Blazer Bob wrote: WASHINGTON — Senator Robert Menendez sought to discourage any plan by the United States government to donate port security equipment to the Dominican Republic, citing concern that the advanced screening gear might undermine efforts by a private company — run by a major campaign contributor and friend of his — to do the work.

The intervention with the Department of Homeland Security last month came even though Mr. Menendez has publicly chastised the Obama administration for not doing more to combat the surging drug traffic moving through Dominican ports.

And it came shortly after the senator’s friend, Dr. Salomon E. Melgen, arranged to meet with a senior State Department official, accompanied by a former aide to Mr. Menendez, in a related push to protect the port security contract, which is worth as much as $500 million over 20 years. "
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/11/us/po ... html?_r=1&

Escort says Menendez prostitution claims were made up

An escort who appeared on a video claiming Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) paid her for sex has told Dominican Republic police that she was instead paid to make up the claims in a tape recording and has never met or seen the senator before, according to court documents and two people briefed on her claim.

The woman identified a lawyer who approached her and a friend to make the videotape, according to affidavits obtained by the Post. That man has in turn identified another lawyer who gave him a script for the tape and paid him to find women to fabricate the claims, the affidavits say.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ ... story.html

Oh darn... Don't you hate it when another good "made up", fabricated hit-piece by the GOTP blows up in their faces.... I wonder whose bank account we can ultimately trace this bit of "manufactured smear" back to?...Hmmmmmmm? But, hey, just another day in the "Fact-Free Echo-Chamber"...

Actually the coverup is almost as bad as the suspected crime. See how much Bob had to pay back his big donor and junket provider?

:Snooze ...

Let us know when you have some FACTS instead of the usual garbage you blow out....

Washington Post

And the beat goes on.

Why yes, it does... And so far, all the FBI has found are the planted stories, made up by the usual GOTP dirty-tricks-squad...

Lemme know how that works out for ya, Clyde...

Birds of a feather?..... :clover: :rainbowclover:

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez hustled away from this reporter at an Amtrak station in Newark, New Jersey when asked last week about his alleged flight on Democratic Party mega-donor Dr. Salomon Melgen’s plane on Easter Sunday in 2012.
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Police: Accusers In Menendez Scandal Were Paid To Make False Claims

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Three women were paid to falsely claim in videotaped interviews that they had sex for money with a U.S. senator in the Dominican Republic, a spokesman for the police said Monday.

The women, whose claims generated media attention in the United States, were hired by a Dominican attorney to make the videotaped statements, spokesman Maximo Baez told reporters. Two of the women received about $425 and the other was paid about $300, he said.

Authorities are seeking to interrogate the attorney, Melanio Figueroa, about the payments and have not determined his motive or whether he was in turn paid by someone else to set up the interviews, Baez said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/1 ... 01776.html

Well, dang... But it's always nice to see the little knuckle-dragging Republican Dirty-Tricks Team happy in their work....

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigation ... 21381.html


"The federal criminal investigation into New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez is broader than previously known, NBC 4 New York has learned.

The Department of Justice is investigating Menendez's efforts on behalf of two fugitive bankers from Ecuador, multiple current and former U.S. officials tell NBC 4 New York. The probe into Menendez’s dealing with the bankers comes as federal authorities are also investigating his relationship to a big campaign donor from Florida."...

Now the Hooker story doesn't seem so bad.