Posted on 01/26/2013 8:59:06 AM PST by JohnPDuncan
The media are not covering this story despite the FBI agent in the emails saying that most of the information has been confirmed. If the allegations are true Menendez could be prosecuted under the 2003 PROTECT ACT making travel and having sex with minors knowingly or not a federal offense with up to 30 years in prison.
DOCUMENTS published online for the first time Thursday indicate that the FBI opened an inquiry into New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez on August 1, 2012, focusing on repeated trips he took to the Dominican Republic with longtime campaign contributor and Miami eye doctor Salomon Melgen. TheDC reported in November that Menendez purchased the service of prostitutes in that Caribbean nation at a series of alcohol-fueled sex parties.
The documents, which The Daily Caller had obtained hours earlier from an anonymous source, also indicate that Carrie Levine, research director at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), was alerted on April 9, 2012 to Menendez’s habit of paying for sex while outside the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Care? Perhaps sex with underage girls is OK by you but not by me. I want the scumbag out of Senate. If these allegations are true I doubt this NJ democrat will survive this. I don't think NJ will let it ride.
Perhaps your point is ... legally ... why is the FBI involved? I'll defer to others on the law.
He’ll say he did it all for the kids. Like Jerry Sandusky. Like PSU, the Senate will do everything they can to keep a lid on it.
This could headline news for weeks, sidelining the current media gun-control jihad and coming jihad on climate change.
I say leave him alone and let him embarrass (and shame) himself and the party. Fly the ‘victims’ to the U.S. and let us all see firsthand who he was doing it with. Our chances of keeping the seat 2 years after Christie appoints a replacement seem unlikely-another opportunity for Cory Booker to keep the seat forever.
Nothing to see here....this greasy SOB was just re-elected.
According to the reports he was sneaking off in a campaign donors private plane from Miami to attend the sex parties.
If a U.S citizen or resident is having underage sex abroad it is a federal crime under the 2003 PROTECT Act and subject to a maximum of 30 years in jail.
That is troubling. If it’s not illegal in that country, whatever “that” is, it shouldn’t be prosecutable here.
We respect other culture and should respect their laws and customs .
That's quite interesting, for a variety of reasons. If a pharmaceutical company did clinical trials in another country that allowed experimentation on patients without full informed consent, and thus was not breaking a law in that country, they would be nailed to the cross here (rightfully so), no matter what the letter of the law says. The news media would be all over it, incessantly, until heads rolled. I don't care if he didn't break any US laws. This identifies him as a predator with no well-defined ethical core. Situation ethics are to some extent worse than no ethics. At least the unethical person who acts that way all the time, non-contextually, is consistent.
Always remember dems have no rules to follow. It is like Animal Farm, some animals are more equal than other animals.
Thanks JohnPDuncan.
Just goes to show how convoluted, corrupted, and ineffective our justice system is now.
A hundred years ago, this guy wouldn’t be on “Meet the Press”
He’d be on “Meet the rope and the oak tree”
This is why I gave up on politics, and have not voted for years.
It’s corrupt to it’s very core, and the good people of this country can’t do a damn thing about it.
And no, sorry, “Next election” ain’t gonna make a damn bit of difference!!!
Are his accusers positive he fell asleep?
Maybe toricelli is out of prison.
The third world is not a “be a pedophile free zone”.
Go do that there, and it is a safe bet you are doing it here, just in a more cautious way.
Any way you thin the predators out and keep them away from their intended victims is good. If they go overseas expecting that there will be no detectives and cameras being reviewed later, well, they help the process along.
(1) Why are illegals/lawbreakers like this predator being given the protection of: (a) the federal govt, (b) the Obama Admin, (c) the DOJ, (d) the US Congress, (e) other govt officials/workers/agencies and institutions?
(2) Are Obama and the Congress acting on orders from foreign governments?
(3) Why was an illegal lawbreaker (a registered sex offender) given a job in US Senator Menendez's office ---- and is now being offered more protections and rights than law-abiding Americans? (4) What are the penalties imposed on US and state govt officials for using tax-paid govt offices, govt resources, and govt authority, to aid and abet wrongdoing---and why are they not being mobilized?
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REFERENCE----JUDICIAL DECISION WRT CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION FOR ILLEGALS: “We conclude that the scope of the Second Amendment does not extend to provide constitutional protection to illegal aliens, because illegal aliens are not law-abiding members of the political community; aliens who have entered the United States unlawfully have no more rights under the Second Amendment than do aliens outside of the United States seeking admittance,” Judge Paul Niemeyer wrote WRT a challenge to the Second Amendment by an illegal alien.
Pay attention to one phrase....“....the scope of the Second Amendment does not extend to provide protection to illegal aliens, because illegal aliens are not law-abiding members of the community.”
IOW, legal (and US Constitutional protections) are intended to protect law-abiding Americans only.
(1) deny citizenship to illegals who purchased multiple forged/faked identities;
(2) deny citizenship to illegals who fraudulently voted in American elections;
(3) deny citizenship to illegals--and extended families--cashing one or more US govt checks;
(4) deny citizenship to all illegals convicted of crimes here and in their homelands;
(5) deny citizenship to illegals w/ fraudulent drivers' licenses;
(6) deny citizenship to illegals undermining the US ecocomy by sending US tax dollars back to their homelands;
(7) deny citizenship to illegals affiliated with latino organizations undermining US ntl security;
(8) deny citizenship to illegals connected to the hatemongering "La Raza"
(9) deny citizenship to students and advocates of "Raza Studies" (teaches killing of Americans); <>(10) deny citizenship to illegals who returned to US after being deported one or more times;
(11) deny citizenship to illegals whose parents fraudently declared them on EITC apps;
(12) deny citizenship to illegals who unlawfully received US govt gratuities in exchange for their votes;
(13) deny citizenship to those who made false claims of citizenship on job apps (US courts ruled this a deportable offense);
(14) deny citizenship to illegals using fake/forged Social Security numbers;
(15) deny citizenship to illegals who obtained fraudulent sub-prime mortgages;
(16) deny citizenship to illegals who defaulted on mortgages (and other debt).
(17) deny citizenship to illegals who skipped out on arrest warrants (violates US criminal law w/ arrest/jailtime for contempt).
..........and so on and so forth......
Me so horny!
Pedophiles and rapists have their own special category and should be punished appropriately. My comment was about commiting a crime in another jurisdiction. The same as you would punished by that local or country for robbery or fraud, you would not be jeopardy of US law as the crime was committed outside the boundaries of the US.
Like kids who drink on ships that are flagged in another country and outside borders of the US or smoking weed in Denmark.
It’s illegal to smoke whaky Tobacky here but 100% lawful in Holland .
Should the long arm of the law reach across the shores and jeopardize a US citizen for exercising free will and doing what is lawful and legal in that country? I think not.
Again, pedophiles deserve a special kind of punishment and I do wonder these days when certain men proclaim how wonderful Thailandaand Cambodia are.
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