Thread: Meet Bob Menendez Alleged Teen Prostitute Customer And 'Fixer'

The lawyer who represented three women who accused New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez of employing their services as prostitutes now says he made up the entire thing at the behest of multiple American media outlets.

Melanio Figueroa, who stands accused by Dominican National Police of paying women to fabricate stories about sleeping with Menendez for money, told Dominican investigators Thursday that news outlets are to blame for the plot.

Figueroa blamed four news outlets — CNN, The Daily Caller, Telemundo and Univision — for allegedly encouraging him to fabricate false accusations about Menendez.

Pressed further by investigators, Figueroa alleged that a man employed by this news site named “Carlos” offered the lawyer $5,000 to invent the prostitution allegations, according to a Thursday evening television report by Univision.

Univision reported that Figueroa alleges he used that money to find three women who would volunteer tales of sleeping with an American senator.

The Daily Caller categorically denies those claims. (But where there's smoke....)

“It seems clear to me Figueroa is under pressure to change his story,” Daily Caller editor Tucker Carlson said Friday morning. “What I know for certain is this claim is a lie. The Daily Caller never paid anyone, was never asked to pay anyone and of course never would pay anyone for this story.”

The Daily Caller/Hot Seat

The perfect double edged scandal. It discredits Menendez as the sleazebag he appears to be, and the Daily Caller as the sleazebags they are. Brilliant.

i posted this a month ago...

Originally Posted by raycarey

and this 'underaged prostitute' thing appears to be completely unfounded and the worst type of smear campaign.....led by right-wing hack, tucker carlson.

i really hope the WP can dig up a smoking gun implicating carlson in this, but my guess is that he's been in the game too long to make that type of rookie mistake.

but what this blowback illustrates is that the right wing media is its own worst enemy....it's because of BS stories like this one that they have no credibility inside the beltway.... and outside the beltway the only people paying attention to the right wing media are the right wing nut jobs.....think of all the alleged scandals the right wing media has been trumpeting over the last few years....'fast and furious", "benghazi", "solyndra" ....half-witted teabaggers were certain each of these 'scandals' was going to bring down the president...but nothing came of any of them...despite republicans controlling the house of representatives.

dopes.

Poll: Menendez rebounding

POSTED: Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 11:01 AM

WASHINGTON – A remarkable thing happened in the Senate press gallery Tuesday. New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez walked through, and no one batted an eye.

Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, was showing some family and friends around the senate, and walked right through a hive of reporters. No one dropped their coffee to ask him about Dominican prostitutes. No one looked up from Twitter to press him about helping a donor. No one asked if he was going to resign. In fact, no one asked him anything at all.

What a difference three months make. In early February, Menendez was on the wrong end of the “camera chasing fleeing politician” scene that never looks good.

Now? He’s back at the center of immigration reform, most of the media has been quiet about the scandal that enveloped him earlier this year, and an opinion poll out today shows that he is slowly but surely regaining his standing with New Jersey voters.

The Quinnipiac University poll found 44 percent of voters approve of the job Menendez is doing, compared to 32 percent who disapprove.

That’s up from 36 percent who approved in a Feb. 21 survey, just weeks after news broke about a raid on the offices of Menendez donor Salomon Melgen and as questions swirled about their relationship and shady allegations about trysts with prostitutes in the Dominican Republic (allegations since discredited).

Menendez’s approval rating is still down from the 56 percent high he reached in November, right after he won re-election, but it has ticked up four points in Quinnipaic surveys each of the past two months. His disapproval rating has dropped 9 points since February, down to about the level where it stood before the scandal.

Seventy percent of voters have heard of the controversy, but only 40 percent said it made them think less favorably of Menendez, compared to 47 percent who said it made no difference.

Asked if the controversy is worth investigating, 48 percent said yes – down from 60 percent in February – while 32 percent said it was politically motivated, up from 23 percent three months ago.

Menendez isn’t beloved – less than half of voters give him a thumbs up – but (provided no new damaging revelations emerge) he does seem to have weathered the worst of the political storm.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Where there's smoke...

Originally Posted by baldrick

the irony is the "moral brigade" using the testimony of a prostitute

any port in a storm...

Corrupt politicians? Are you Merkins for real? You really believe, even in your Great Land of Hope and Glory, there exists such a thing as a non-corrupt politician? No wonder you make such fabulous consumers.

Damn. That's innocence for you. Or gullibility.

Why do you think politicians become politicians? They have a great need to serve you?

Heh...and y'all though he was 'out of the woods' on Scandals?

New scandal surrounding New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, sources tell DRUDGE.. Developing late from NY POST.



http://www.drudgereport.com/

Turns out it's a Sex Scandal with a married woman!



She forgot to put on her makeup it appears...

Menendez in alleged affair with newspaper publisher - NYPOST.com

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Sex Scandal with a married woman!

Oh my god a SEX Scandal.

“My husband and I were separated for a period of time in the past,” she said in a statement released Friday night.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Where there's smoke...

^
Well, the public has a right to expect ethical behavior from its elected represenitives...

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Where there's smoke...

Federal agents descended on the clinic of a South Florida eye doctor close to U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez last January — a dark-of-night raid that soon spiraled into a string of national news stories about trips on the physician’s private plane to the Dominican Republic and scandalous allegations of trysts with underage prostitutes.

Nearly a year later, the politically explosive allegations against the New Jersey Democrat have proved to be duds so far.

After subpoenaing records and witnesses, a federal grand jury in Miami has filed no charges against Menendez , a prominent Cuban-American lawmaker, or his friend and major campaign donor, Dr. Salomon Melgen, according to several sources familiar with the probe.

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Nearly a year later, the politically explosive allegations against the New Jersey Democrat have proved to be duds so far.

duds....just like 'fast and furious', 'solyndra', 'the irs'/teabagger, 'benghazi', etc....

Originally Posted by raycarey

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Nearly a year later, the politically explosive allegations against the New Jersey Democrat have proved to be duds so far.

duds....just like 'fast and furious', 'solyndra', 'the irs'/teabagger, 'benghazi', etc....

Republicans need to cover up the fact that they are gay and sick. Repression is not the answer.

The FBI Is Investigating Menendez For Efforts On Behalf Of Fugitive Ecuadorian Bankers



Forget about the underage hookers and the war on wimmins. No traffic cones were harmed during the scandal.

Sen. Bob Menendez (D., N.J.) is under criminal investigation by the FBI and Justice Department for his involvement with fugitive Ecuadorian banker brothers William and Roberto Isaias, NBC-NY reported Thursday.

The brothers have been fugitives for more than a decade and were sentenced in absentia for embezzlement, and their family members have given considerable donations to Menendez and the Democratic Party. Federal officials are questioning whether Menendez broke the law in helping the brothers stay in the U.S., with multiple officials saying Menendez wrote letters and made phone calls to the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department on their behalf.

One example was an April 2, 2012 letter wrote to a high-ranking DHS official urging he give the matter an expedited review, asking for full consideration to be given to the Isaias brothers as they fought against extradition and maintained their innocence.
Former New Jersey FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Wesyan Dun said Menendez’s behavior was “shocking.”

“I think most people would know and believe it would be appropriate to keep your distance from individuals convicted of crimes in their homeland,” he said.

According to Dienst, investigators want to know whether Menendez attempted to influence immigration officials in 2012 in exchange for campaign donations. While Roberto Isaias said, as a non-resident, he can’t make donations to a U.S. campaign, federal election records show relatives of the brothers donated more than $10,000 to his successful 2012 re-election campaign to the Senate, and they donated at least $100,000 to the Democratic Party that year.

“If the government, when they look at this, can establish that in exchange for donations from citizens not of this country, of gifts, that the senator took official action to benefit them, now we’re talking something potentially illegal,” said former federal prosecutor Scott Fredericksen.

There has also been a federal probe into Menendez’s dealings with Floridian shady mega-donor Dr. Salomon Melgen, a huge giver to Menendez and the Democratic Party as well. Federal investigators have raided Melgen’s office while looking into potential charges of Medicare fraud and political corruption. Menendez was investigated for, among other matters, a quid-pro-quo with Melgen, advocating on behalf of a huge contract for a company Melgen bought providing border security in the Dominican Republic.

He also took multiple trips on Melgen’s private jet and didn’t disclose them."

Just Another In A Long Line Of Corrupt Democrats

Menendez sound another bad apple.

Hopefully, he'll lose the next election if not charged with anything.

There aren't too many 'good' apples on that side of the aisle...

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

There aren't too many 'good' apples on that side of the aisle...

Oh and there are on the other side? Wake up boon and stop sipping the koolaid.