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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"FBI seeks source of prostitution, corruption allegations against Sen. Robert Menendez"
FBI seeks source of prostitution, corruption allegations against Sen. Robert MenendezBy Carol D. Leonnig and Peter Wallsten at the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-seeks-source-of-prostitution-corruption-allegations-against-sen-robert-menendez/2013/05/16/72ad79a0-bbda-11e2-89c9-3be8095fe767_story.html?hpid=z2
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A pair of FBI agents met on a recent weekday morning with brothers Alfonso Alfy and Jose Pepe Fanjul in the Palm Beach headquarters of their sugar and real estate empire.
The investigators questions struck a discordant note in the Fanjuls sunlit offices overlooking a yacht-filled waterway, according to three people familiar with the meeting: Were the brothers or any of their associates familiar with a plot to bring down a United States senator?
Months after the FBI began probing allegations against Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), investigators are looking at whether someone set out to smear him while he was running for reelection last year and then ascending to his new post as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, according to four people briefed on the inquiry.
The scene of federal agents interviewing two of the worlds wealthiest sugar barons, whose business holdings include Domino Sugar, underscores the unusual twists of the saga centered on Menendez, who has been battling allegations that he did special favors for a major campaign donor.
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"FBI seeks source of prostitution, corruption allegations against Sen. Robert Menendez" (Original Post)
applegrove
May 2013
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JI7
(89,247 posts)1. another fake scandal against a Dem
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)2. Roger Ailes shouldn't be hard to find. n/t
malaise
(268,930 posts)3. Look for a little rich guy
dressed up like Richie Rich - bow tie and all and posing as a journalist.