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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo who paid for the Menendez/Prostitution lie?
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.
The escort was one of two women who taped videos that seems to support a tipsters allegations that Menendez had patronized prostitutes while vacationing in the Dominican Republic.
FBI agents conducting interviews in the Dominican Republic have found no evidence to back up the tipsters allegations, according to two people briefed on their work.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/escort-says-menendez-prostitution-claims-were-made-up/2013/03/04/31299fe2-8514-11e2-999e-5f8e0410cb9d_story.html
My guess is that the FBI may find the end of the money trail, but we won't be privy to the information.
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)Who else knows the ins-and-outs of Dominican Republic's sex trade.
spanone
(135,637 posts)imagine what we never know about
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)2naSalit
(86,071 posts)that certain type of stench.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Or should I say, elephant shit....
JHB
(37,133 posts)...atop a mountain of elephant shit.
(or maybe backwards, so we can go with John Stewart's "Bullshit Mountain" meme)
zeemike
(18,998 posts)When money trails take a right turn they die.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)this land right on the doorstep of the republican party,because it sounds to me like a big legal criminal mess would be the result,but I'm not holding my breath.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)But if there is a link it will wind up like O'Keeffe and his attempt to bug a congressperson's office...just fade away....just a prank you see.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)"why can't democrats take a joke"?
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Issa will try and find out?
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,355 posts)-for the Republicans, anyway.
Boomerproud
(7,889 posts)The media will tease us for awhile before we forget about it.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Pat Robertson.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)see GOP party officials doing the perp walk though. I can dream.
Blue Owl
(49,936 posts)n/t
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,483 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,483 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,483 posts).
Kingofalldems
(38,361 posts)Oops.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Priceless!
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)They wanted Menendez gone so Christie could pick a Republican for his seat.
I'm betting there will be MORE fake dirt on the horizon for any Democrat serving in a state with a Republican governor.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)...because the credibility of the claims could not be verified. But ABC reportedly did say that the interviews had been arranged by "Republican operatives."
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)won't because "that's not good politics". Heaven forbid we call a crime a crime.