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Menendez did not pay for flights from campaign donor until this year
Star Ledger ^

Posted on 01/30/2013 7:36:20 PM PST by SMGFan

U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez did not pay for two flights provided by Salomon Melgen – his friend and campaign donor whose office was raided by the FBI Tuesday night – until more than two years later, and after a New Jersey Republican asked the Senate ethics committee to look into his travels.

Menendez spokesman Paul Brubaker today said the senator reimbursed Melgen for the flights on January 4 of this year. Both were round trips– one between Florida and the Dominican Republic in August 2010, and one between Teterboro and the Dominican Republic in September 2010.

The total amount Menendez (D-N.J.) paid back was $58,500 , Brubaker said.

On Nov. 3 of last year, state Sen. Sam Thompson, who chairs the Middlesex County Republican Committee, wrote to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics to request an investigation of Menendez’s flights to the Caribbean nation. Thompson’s letter came after a conservative blog posted allegations from two anonymous women it said were prostitutes who said they had sex with Menendez in the Dominican Republic.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: bobmenendez; dominicanprostitutes; newjersey; partisanmediashills; paulbrubaker; robertmenendez; salomonmelgen; samthompson
um, What difference does it make? He was reelected last November.
1 posted on 01/30/2013 7:36:21 PM PST by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

These cretins need to be dragged from office by the scruffs of their necks.


2 posted on 01/30/2013 7:45:26 PM PST by samadams2000
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To: SMGFan
as he rises in seniority he is seen more often. Now he is chairman of Foreign Relations Committee.

Truly a man from Union City & Hudson County. In Spring 1992 he told me he was a progressive. No Liberal was he. POS

3 posted on 01/30/2013 7:50:01 PM PST by SMGFan (SMGfan is not "Sub Machine Gun" fan)
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To: SMGFan

He goes and it becomes Senator Booker after 2 years.


4 posted on 01/30/2013 7:59:08 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

and who replaces Lautenberg in 2014? Palonne? Andrews? What difference does it make?


5 posted on 01/30/2013 8:02:58 PM PST by SMGFan (SMGfan is not "Sub Machine Gun" fan)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Prediction — NJ will soon celebrate “Bob Menendez Day” along with “Darwin Day”.

Thanks SMGFan.


6 posted on 01/30/2013 8:09:33 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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