Posted on 09/28/2006 8:04:40 AM PDT by Uncledave
Menendez dumps key adviser caught on tape seeking 'favors'
Posted by The Star-Ledger September 27, 2006 22:56
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez's closest political adviser was secretly recorded seven years ago boasting of political power and urging a Hudson county contractor to hire somone as a favor to Menendez, according to a transcript obtained by The Star-Ledger.
Tonight Menendez's campaign says he has severed his ties with the adviser, Donald Scarinci, after learning of the taped conversation.
Menendez and Scarinci were childhood friends and Scarinci, a prominent attorney with extensive contracts in state and local governments, has been a key fundraiser for the senator throughout his long political career.
Scarinci was recorded in 1999 by Oscar Sandoval, a Union City psychatrist who had contracts with the county jail and hospital in Hudson County, according to two people familiar with the tapes who requested anonymity because the recordings are evidence in a pending lawsuit.
A transcript of the recorded telephone conversation was obtained by The Star-Ledger and verified by the two sources. In it, Scarinci urged Sandoval to hire another physician, Vincente Ruiz, telling him: "Menendez will consider that a favor."
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You're going down Bobby
Tony Soprano is a putz!
Nancy Pelosi is deeply disturbed.
Perfect. Now we have (Scarface) Scarinci. Joisey is living up to its reputation.
Hmmmm, The article never mentions his party affiliation. Several paragraphs in it says his opponent is a Republican but I still don't know what Menendez is. Isn't that odd! (/sarc)
This is politics as usual in NJ.............
did anyone see the "D" word in that article? He was referred to as a U.S. Senator. If he was from the other side the headline might have looked a little different.
If you don't think this happens every day, in both parties, I have a bridge I'd like to sell ya'...
In other news, readers dump "Star Ledger" because they can't count on the lousy rag to reveal the democrat culture of corruption.
If this was any state but New Jersey I would say stick a fork in him.
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