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Billion With a ‘B’: Did Menendez Provide Special Favors to HookerGate Donor?
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A sex scandal is quite often more than just a sex scandal, and the emerging story of the connection between embattled Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and his shady Palm Beach patron, Dr. Salomon Melgen, appears to be developing as a complex scandal:
Sen. Bob Menendez used his influence to advocate for a Dominican Republic business deal that helped a longtime friend and donor whose South Florida office was raided by federal agents this week.
Menendez questioned Obama administration officials at a July hearing about what it was doing to help U.S. businesses that he felt were being unfairly treated by the government of the Dominican Republic and other Latin American countries.
One company Menendez was apparently referring to: ICSSI, acquired the year before by Dr. Salomon Melgen, a Palm Beach County eye doctor and friend. The firm was seeking to enforce a contract it had won to X-ray Dominican Republic port cargo, that could be worth $500 million to $1 billion over two decades.
Follow the money – if Melgen had a billion-dollar contract at stake, his “friendship” with Senator Menendez was obviously more than a mere social acquaintance, which doesn’t necessarily mean that it was illegal for Menendez to pressure the administration to help Melgen enforce his Dominican port security contract. But how and why does a Florida opthamologist become an international port-security mogul? The New York Times rather unsubtly raised that point Friday: MORE
Porn o boy
February 3rd, 2013
American hookers not good enough for him?
What’s the wife have to say?
thirdtwin
February 3rd, 2013
“how and why does a Florida opthamologist become an international port-security mogul?”
pfft…Melgen is an underachieving opthamologist:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/08/10/syria.al.assad.profile/index.html
Buffalobob
February 3rd, 2013
What’s with the Dominican Republic? Isn’t this the same place Charlie Rangel forgot he didn’t pay US income taxes on his villa?
Left Coast Dan
February 3rd, 2013
Look, as 0bama said this is just a witch hunt, created by the Daily Caller, which nobody else is following. Wait, what? NY Times?
Stranded in Sonoma
February 3rd, 2013
I say we get a search warrant for Menendez’s freezer.
Tim
February 3rd, 2013
C’mon, just another sleazy, slimeball, socialist, do-gooder thieving away while pretending to be looking out for the poor, downtrodden, yucky, unwashed, surplus population.
His hypocrisy is astounding.
Joisey’s stupidity is astonishing!