Embattled Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez said
through a spokesman Wednesday that trips he took on the private jet of a major
political donor “have been paid for and reported appropriately.”
But that may not have been accurate until shortly before the
statement went out to media: WNBC-TV4 in New York City
reported Wednesday that Menendez recently wrote a $58,500 check to the jet’s
owner, Florida eye doctor Salomon
Melgen.
“Senator Menendez has traveled on Dr. Melgen’s plane on
three occasions, all of which have been paid for and reported appropriately,”
the statement said.
Menendez’s chief of staff, Dan O’Brien, told NBC that it
took the senator three years to pay his private airfare because of an office
mistake.
“This was sloppy,” O’Brien conceded about two 2010 flights.
“I’m chalking it up to an oversight…
Source: Daily Caller
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