Menendez and friends deny all...

[WTF]

Originally Posted by Whirlaway

There is much more credibility to the teenage prostitution charges against Menendez ............

How so...provide a link.

[SinsOfTheFlesh]

Originally Posted by WTF

You have yet to see a credible charge of underage prostitution. Some right wing blog, right before the election!

Condi Rice traveled to the MIddle East, a place where womens right are suppressed, therefore Condi Rice is for the suppression of womens rights...is that your logic?

Condi travelled to the Middle East in her capacity as Sec'y of State. I would love to hear from Menendez why he chose the DR as his get away destination of choice.

[WTF]

Originally Posted by SinsOfTheFlesh

Condi travelled to the Middle East in her capacity as Sec'y of State. I would love to hear from Menendez why he chose the DR as his get away destination of choice.

So you just assume it was for fucking underage chicks. So if Condi say went into a poor neighborhood that sold drugs, she was there to buy drugs? Not for any other reason? interesting

[SinsOfTheFlesh]

WTF you seem to be experiencing difficulty distinguishing between travel in an official capacity, versus leisure/networking travel.

I assume nothing. But it appears that I am not as naive as you seem to be. Or perhaps I simply choose not to wear partisan blinders or employ a rubber stamp. I don't care about Menendez's party affiliation. I do care about the seriousness of the allegations, and about getting to the truth.

[WTF]

Originally Posted by SinsOfTheFlesh

WTF you seem to be experiencing difficulty distinguishing between travel in an official capacity, versus leisure/networking travel.

I assume nothing. But it appears that I am not as naive as you seem to be. Or perhaps I simply choose not to wear partisan blinders or employ a rubber stamp. I don't care about Menendez's party affiliation. I do care about the seriousness of the allegations, and about getting to the truth.

I call bullshit...you do not make accusations based entirely on the rantings of some right wing blog made days before the election. Can you show any proof other than that? I have seen nothing. I have asked but none of you shoot first , ask questions later types have provided anything relevant. Why is that?

[Guest040616]

SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - A Dominican woman who previously stated in a video that she was paid to have sex with Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey now says the allegations were false, according to a sworn statement released by a lawyer on Monday.
The notarized affidavit was distributed by a prominent Dominican lawyer and friend of Menendez, Vinicio Castillo, who said it had been handed over to prosecutors. Castillo is not acting as the lawyer to the woman.
In her sworn statement, the woman, Nexis de los Santos Santana, denied ever meeting Menendez and said she never agreed to be filmed.
Menendez, a Cuban-American Democrat who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, won re-election to a second term last year. He has repeatedly denied the sex claims, calling them "politically motivated" smears.
Asked on Monday night about the affidavit, a spokeswoman for the senator declined to comment. The affidavit was first reported by the Washington Post.
Unsubstantiated reports, first published on the conservative Daily Caller website, alleged that Salomon Melgen, a Dominican-born Florida doctor, provided Menendez with free trips aboard his private plane to the Dominican Republic where Menendez allegedly engaged in sex with underage prostitutes.
The original videotaped interview with the woman features her saying that Menendez paid her for sex and that she was cheated out of the full amount he had agreed to pay.
But according to the affidavit released on Monday, the woman now says she was paid to read from a prepared text and was videotaped without her consent.
In January, FBI agents searched Melgen's South Florida office. The FBI did not explain the motive for the raid on the offices of Melgen, 58, saying only that it was "conducting law enforcement activity" in the vicinity of the medical-office complex where Melgen's West Palm Beach eye clinic is located.
At the time, Melgen did not respond to a request for comment. Menendez's office said Melgen "has been a friend and political supporter of Senator Menendez for many years."
(Reporting by Manuel Jimenez in Santo Domingo, Kevin Gray in Miami and Edith Honan in New York; Editing by Mary Milliken and Eric Walsh)

[Whirlaway]

Washington Post report confuses one prostitute with another in bid to debunk Menendez allegations

The Washington Post mistook one prostitute for another Monday in a report that initially seemed to debunk a November 2012 Daily Caller exposé of New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez.

While the Post said it had an affidavit from a woman in the Dominican Republic admitting she fabricated claims Menendez paid her for sex, that woman was not one of the two prostitutes TheDC interviewed for a Nov. 1 report.

The Post identified the woman as 23-year-old Nexis de los Santos Santana.

The Miami Herald similarly reported that de los Santos “was one of two women who appeared in videos” published by TheDC.

De los Santos claimed she was “surreptitiously taped,” the Post wrote.

The Miami Herald noted, however that “in The Daily Caller video, in which she is allegedly the woman wearing green whose face is blurred out, she appears wearing an earpiece and answering questions.”

The interview was conducted via a video webcam. Both women consented to its presence.

Post reporter Carol D. Leonnig did not respond to requests for comment Monday night, and did not provide TheDC with a copy of the affidavit.

Other elements of the Post’s story suggested that it had identified a different escort from the women who told TheDC they were paid to have sex with the senator.

Both women TheDC interviewed said they were 24 years old at the time — not 23 — and neither went by Nexis de los Santos Santana. They spelled out their names and ages on camera, in the presence of Dominican lawyer Melanio Figueroa.

In addition, the Post reported that de los Santos claimed she implicated Menendez, his long-time donor Dr. Salomon Melgen, “and prominent Dominican lawyer Vinicio Castillo Selmán [sic], Melgen’s cousin, in hiring prostitutes.”

But Castillo Semán was not identified at any point during TheDC’s video interviews. His name first surfaced nearly three months later, in a written testimonial from a prostitute that appeared among emails and other records placed online by a whistle-blower calling himself Peter Williams.

It is unclear if only two women were prepared to speak to TheDC at the time of the interviews. A third woman was allegedly standing by to speak with TheDC when the laptop being used in the Dominican Republic ran out of battery life, according to the translator.

Figueroa, the attorney who accompanied the women during TheDC’s video interviews, now stands accused of orchestrating the entire episode as part of a plot to use a phony divorce case to embarrass both Menendez and Melgen.

Figueroa told the Miami Herald on Monday evening that such allegations are “totally false.”

“It was a case that I handled for these women and faithfully represented them for what they said,” he told the Herald.

He also accused de los Santos’ attorney, Miguel Galván, of fabricating his affidavit — and the escort’s apparent admissions.

“These are lies by Galván,” Figueroa said, according to the Herald. “What he is saying is a lie.”



Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/05/wa...#ixzz2MfZwFPJi

Note to KoTex- this is what a linked story looks like..........don't be a lazy fucker. Post a link.

[nevergaveitathought]

if one of them has now recanted....well simple enough, she was threatened

[WTF]

Originally Posted by SinsOfTheFlesh

WTF you seem to be experiencing difficulty distinguishing between travel in an official capacity, versus leisure/networking travel.

I assume nothing. But it appears that I am not as naive as you seem to be. Or perhaps I simply choose not to wear partisan blinders or employ a rubber stamp. I don't care about Menendez's party affiliation. I do care about the seriousness of the allegations, and about getting to the truth.

Originally Posted by WTF

I call bullshit...you do not make accusations based entirely on the rantings of some right wing blog made days before the election. Can you show any proof other than that? I have seen nothing. I have asked but none of you shoot first , ask questions later types have provided anything relevant. Why is that?

Still waiting....

[BigLouie]

Originally Posted by WTF

Still waiting....

I advise you not to hold your breath.

[Whirlaway]

The Washington Post re-cants it's original story............

Menendez prostitute stands by her story; but the Washington Post re-tracts it's false story !

http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/05/wa...dcs-reporting/

[CuteOldGuy]

Once again, BiSex suffers from an attack of premature jubilation.