NRSC: Menendez may have broken Senate ethics rules, federal campaign finance laws...

The Daily Caller ^ | 11/01/2012 | Matthew Boyle

[Brown Deer]

NRSC: Menendez may have broken Senate ethics rules, federal campaign finance laws with alleged Dominican sex trip

The executive director of National Republican Senatorial Committee said Thursday that New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez “may have violated Senate ethics rules and federal campaign finance laws” with his alleged sex trip to the Dominican Republic.

The Daily Caller first reported early on Thursday that two women from the Dominican Republic are alleging Menendez paid them for sex around Easter time this year at Casa de Campo, an expensive 7,000-acre resort in the Dominican Republic.

The two women claimed Menendez agreed to pay them $500 for sex acts, and that they each received only $100.

NRSC executive director Rob Jesmer said in a statement that the allegations against Menendez “are very serious and deserve examination.”

Senate ethics rules and campaign finance laws could apply to the question of how Menendez got to the Dominican Republic, and to his use of a campaign donor’s resources — including a private plane and a home at Casa de Campo.

Menendez donor Salomon Melgen, an ophthalmologist and owner of an eye clinic in Florida, appears to have lent Menendez the use of his plane on several occasions. It is known that Sen. Menendez has been a regular visitor to the Dominican Republic. Menendez was a guest at Melgen’s Casa de Campo home on at least one occasion, according to a news account.

Menendez’s GOP challenger, Republican state Sen. Joe Kyrillos, has called on the senator to release his travel records in the wake of this scandal breaking. The NRSC’s Jesmer echoed that call.

“Fortunately, there is a simple way for Senator Menendez to begin addressing these questions, and that is by releasing his schedule and travel records related to Easter Week of this year, as well as the other dates in question,” Jesmer said in the statement.

Menendez spokeswoman Tricia Enright has refused to answer any questions on the subject. “We’re not going to respond to a completely false accusation,” she wrote by email on Wednesday evening.

Enright has not answered when asked if Menendez will release his travel records.

Jesmer said Menendez’s “continued refusal” to release his travel records “should rightfully raise questions in the minds of every New Jersey voter.”

[Logical me]

Resign you first class rotten Democrat.

[Mark]

Who are you going to believe?
A prostitute or some hookers who weren’t paid?

[Venturer]

He is a Democrat-—THERE ARE NO RULES.

[353FMG]

Aren’t demokrats expected to violate Senate ethics rules?

Who is going to stop them?

[Professional]

It they can make any connection to spending, from something other than his own pocket, he’s toast. Even then, his own statements about the secret service agents implicate him as being a representative of the USA.

A person this stupid, was probably also stupid and greedy enough to make the taxpayer in some way, pay for at least part of the trip, thereby destroying him.

[Gator113]

How old were these “women”? Part of the slave trade??

[skeeter]

He’s in for it now - probably receive a letter of censure in his file.

[Obadiah]

Face it, he’s a Democrat. There will be no discussion of this in the criminal MSM. In two days this will all be swept under the rug and he will move onward and upward in the Democrat Party.

Of course, if he were a Republican, there would be endless breathless reporting until said Republican resigned in disgrace - as any public official should.

[Gator113]

How old were these “women”? Part of the slave trade??

[forgotten man]

I cannot recall a scandal involving politicians and hookers where the hooker ratted on a politician who paid her the full amount in cash and walked away after he was done. Menendez did not pay as agreed. Spitzer was so dumb that he paid the hooker with bank wire transfers. The secret service agent in Colombia was too cheap to pay the agreed upon sum. The only ethical people invovled in these scandals are the hookers.

[GeronL]

and if there was a minor it’s a felony

[The Sons of Liberty]

NRSC: Menendez may have broken Senate ethics rules, federal campaign finance laws with alleged Dominican sex trip

Someone needs to inform the NRSC that rules don't apply to dimocraps. Just ask Debbie Wasserman-Shultz.

[NeverForgetBataan]

Unfortunately, all those poor people on the Jersey shore
won’t hear the story since their power is still out.

The rest wont care. Blowj0b Bob will be re-elected.

[Proud2BeRight]

Looks like he knows how to make a hormone.

[doug from upland]

[JediJones]

The Senate rules clearly say always pay your hooker in full plus a tip.

[Truth is a Weapon]

Exactly. There are two things that might sink him. If there was a minor involved that is a crime in the USA even if it happened outside of the USA. If he used taxpayer or campaign funds, that is a crime. I would be surprised he could survive a felony even if re-elected. Doesn’t Christie get to appoint his successor.

There is still time for the voters of NJ to do the right thing.

[MasterGunner01]

And Harry Reid will discipline him for his transgressions? Please . . . Harry and the other Senate Donkeys have done worse and will circle the wagons around Menendez.

[Cyman]

Forget the congressional charges this man broke a USA law as a pedophile going on a foreign excursion to have sex with children .

This is a big time felony.