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 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.”
In a handwritten statement provided last year to a whistle-blower, a
young prostitute detailed allegations that she slept with Democratic New
Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez beginning “when I was 16 years old.”
“During [one] visit of Senator Bob Menendez to the Dominican
Republic, I had intimate relations with him on more than one
occasion,” the unidentified woman wrote, according to The Daily Caller’s
translation. She appears to be a new voice among what are now at least
six women purported to have engaged in sex for money with Menendez.
Her claim appears in a Spanish-language testimonial collected by
Peter Williams, a tipster who brought a series of similar allegations to
light. He emailed a government reform group, Citizens for
Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), in April 2012 with
interviews and testimonials he obtained from women he said he had met in
the Dominican Republic.
In a little-noticed email published online Wednesday by
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a young Dominican
woman wrote nine months ago that she slept with 59-year-old New Jersey
Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez at a series of sex parties organized by Dr.
Salomon Melgen, a longtime Menendez campaign donor.
“That senator also likes the youngest and newest girls,” the
woman wrote on April 21, 2002,
according to an English translation provided to The Daily Caller by a native
Spanish speaker.
“In the beginning he seemed so serious, because he never
spoke to anyone, but he is just like the others and has just about the same
tastes as the doctor, very refined. I think they were taking us more often to
get us checked [medically] because of him…
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…
FBI agents have raided the West Palm Beach, Fla. eye clinic
owned by Dr. Salomon Melgen, the wealthy donor to New Jersey Democratic Sen.
Bob Menendez who allegedly procured prostitutes for him — some of them as young
as 16 — during trips to the Dominican Republic.
The Miami Herald reported that federal agents lined up vans
outside the MelgenEyeCenter late Tuesday night to haul
away evidence in the case.
A woman answering the phone at Melgen’s home in West
Palm Beach would not give her name but said, “Dr.
Melgen is asleep.” Asked if he was aware his clinic was being raided by federal
law enforcement, she replied, “Oh yes, well, these things happen all the time.
They’ve got to do their job.” She declined to comment on Melgen’s relationship
with Sen. Menendez.
Melgen, 58, is believed to have flown Menendez in his
private jet to the Dominican Republic
on several occasions for alcohol-fueled sex parties featuring prostitutes…
Days after documents surfaced that suggested New Jersey
Democratic Senator Bob Menendez paid for sexual favors in the Dominican
Republic — including some from girls as
young as 16 — few in Washington
are offering new clues about what appears to be an ongoing federal
investigation.
The documents included emails between FBI Special Agent
Regino Chavez and a Dominican source. In one email, Chavez told the source that
“we have been able to confirm most of” the information he had provided about
Menendez and the prostitutes. “We know that you are providing accurate
information.”
But the FBI had no comment for Fox News on Saturday.
ABC News chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz,
who had Menendez on a nationally televised hot seat Sunday morning, failed to
ask him about the accusations. A yes-or-no question
Students as young as 14 in Philadelphia
will soon have access to unlimited free condoms, courtesy of the city
government. And while parents will be able to “opt-out” by sending a letter to
their child’s school, administrators have made it clear that they will not
monitor or restrict access to the condoms, even for those students whose
parents have signed “opt-out” letters.
In other words, if your child attends
high school in Philadelphia, then the government has taken control of your
14-year-old’s access to birth control, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that
22 city high schools will receive large, clear plastic condoms dispensers over
the holiday break. The dispensers will be mounted to the wall just inside
doorway to the administrative offices of the schools.
The 22 schools targeted for the program
reported the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases among students.
Free condoms are already available…
The University of North
Carolina-Wilmington has hired an English literature professor whose
pornographic poetry verse include fantasies of sexual relations with freshmen
female students, an education watchdog reported this week.
In Prof. Alessandro Porco’s poem “Hot
Girl-Girl Action University” the fictional university president Jill Kelly
offers a welcome to the freshman class.
“Who would say No to a g*ng-b*ng?
Who would say No to Prof. P**n-Tang?
Who would say No to my scholarly
toungin’?
Thank you fathers for your daughters.”
That poem is part The Jill Kelly Poems,
ranked 3,963,932 on Amazon, which chronicles the life of a porn star through
poetry.
In an interview on PopMatters.com, Porco
describes it as…
WASHINGTON - Republican National
Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus released the following statement on
Attorney General Holder's refusal to comply with the House investigation into
the Fast and Furious scandal:
"Fast and Furious was a failed
operation that resulted in tragedy, and Americans are right to demand answers
from Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama administration," said RNC
Chairman Reince Priebus.
"This administration promised to be
the most transparent in history, but they have clearly failed to live up to
that promise. President Obama criticized other presidents for invoking
executive privilege, but now that it serves his political purposes he's doing
the same to protect his Attorney General. That's certainly not transparency.
It's hypocrisy, and it rightly leaves Americans and the families affected by
Fast and Furious wondering what the administration is hiding."
Here’s the response to the events in Louisiana today from National Campaign Manager John Tate. John rightly condemns
the violence suffered by some of our supporters and also rightly praises the
Romney campaign for taking the high road to make sure our duly elected
delegates assume their rightful place in Tampa.
Establishment Republicans sometimes
claim that Ron Paul supporters occasionally get out-of-hand. This has been true,
and to the extent that some Paul supporters have exhibited poor behavior not
only reflects badly on the individuals involved, but Dr. Paul. I have seen
great strides toward more civility and having more respectful attitudes moving
forward. Our side currently has all the ideas; we don’t need to yell the
loudest. The GOP is an ideological vacuum that is currently being filled with
our people right before our eyes. Our superior philosophy will win the day. It
is already winning.
Establishment Republicans who don’t like
to see Ron Paul supporters winning seats and positions of authority—completely
playing by the rules—do not have the right to turn around and disenfranchise
Paul supporters simply by making up new rules. No one has the right to use some
of the strong-arm tactics we saw on shameful display today in Louisiana.
When Barry Goldwater’s supporters began
reshaping the GOP in 1960, ’64 and beyond, it got pretty messy. But Goldwater’s
forces won the day by playing by the same rules as the Rockefeller
Republicans—whether those establishment Republicans liked it or not.
When presidential candidate Pat
Robertson’s supporters began making the GOP a more substantively pro-life party
in 1988 and beyond through groups like the Christian Coalition, this too was
not always pretty. Many establishment Republicans did not like religious
conservatives making inroads into “their” party.
The Republican Party today is just as
much the party of Ron Paul supporters as anyone else’s. Moving forward, I
believe it will become even more “our” party than it already is today. The
party is defined by those with the most powerful ideas and who are willing to
fight for them.
But not physically. This is a battle of
ideas, not brute force. Anyone involved in the physical harm done to Ron Paul supporters today in Louisiana should be ashamed of themselves. Thanks to the
Romney campaign for stepping in and taking the high road. Thanks to Paul
supporters who have taken the high road since the beginning by playing by the
rules–and winning—whether some in the establishment like it or not.
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 Sen. Bob Menendez.
