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joeybee12

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Tue Mar 5, 2013, 12:15 PM Mar 2013

Woman changes story, denies being paid for sex with Sen. Robert Menendez

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - 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, 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.

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/05/17191076-woman-changes-story-denies-being-paid-for-sex-with-sen-robert-menendez?lite

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