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Another Report Claims Alleged Menendez ‘Prostitutes’ Were Paid to Lie

Mar. 18, 2013 6:27pm Becket Adams

Well, here we are. Another week, another crazy twist in controversy surrounding Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J) and his alleged involvement with underage Dominican prostitutes.

From the Associated Press:

Three women were paid to falsely claim in videotaped interviews that they had sex for money with a U.S. senator in the Dominican Republic, a spokesman for the police said Monday.

The women, whose claims generated media attention in the United States, were hired by a Dominican attorney to make the videotaped statements, spokesman Maximo Baez told reporters. Two of the women received about $425 and the other was paid about $300, he said.

Authorities are seeking to interrogate the attorney, Melanio Figueroa, about the payments and have not determined his motive or whether he was in turn paid by someone else to set up the interviews, Baez said.

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The police spokesman was making his most detailed comments to date on an investigation into the source of allegations that U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez had sex with prostitutes, including two who were underage at the time, while in the Dominican Republic with his friend and campaign contributor, Dr. Salomon Melgen, a south Florida doctor, and with Vinicio Castillo Seman, an attorney whose family is politically prominent in the Dominican Republic. Castillo and Menendez have denied hiring prostitutes.

In response to Monday’s report, The Daily Caller, the site that published the aforementioned videotaped statements, claims that they’re still investigating.

“TheDC has not independently verified the identities of the women involved in the Dominican National Police investigation, but will continue to investigate the case,” TheDC’s Vince Coglianese writes. “A statement released by the police made no mention of TheDC.”

This is the second time this month that a major news group has reported that Sen. Mendendez’ accusers were paid to frame him.

Recall that the Washington Post claimed earlier this month that 23-year-old Nexis de los Santos Santana supposedly appeared in the aforementioned video to accuse the senator of sexual improprieties. She later told Dominican authorities in an affidavit that she was paid to help frame the U.S. senator, according to early versions of the Post report.

However, The Daily Caller responded to the Post’s supposed scoop by accusing the left-leaning organization of having the wrong woman.

“[T]he prostitute in the Post’s story does not appear to be one of the women we interviewed in 2012,” TheDC said in a statement.

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Gladileftcalifornia
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 7:10am
“Man, it’s gotten to the point where you can’t even have fun with underaged prostitutes. What happened to office perks?”

Sen. Bob Menendez-D
2013

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MiCurmudgeon
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:48am
Was it lie or lay ?

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betterpart
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 3:34am
Sounds strangely like Clinton’s braying, “I never had secks with that woman!” Right….I mean left.

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MACaTAC
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 1:49am
I don’t believe anything coming from a prostitute. There is no way for us to know when who paid who to say what.

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- kenboo1
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 2:49am
  Ok How do you know she is a prostitute??? could be just another lady… I don’t really trust anyone with a (D) by their name or for that matter an (R) by there name… I trust Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton and Tim Griffin… I feel like the Senate needs new blood… They need to return the Senate electoral process back over to the States… See http://www.repeal17.net
  
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- gadisa
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:34am
  every one knows conservatives here in US paid the three women to lie about the senater. but didnt succeed in that
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 12:57am
Why would you pay for sex in a foreign country, when you just get a job in the public school system, because people refuse to home school their children? Is that a joke or a serious question? If we don’t ask trick questions, you might get bored?

Does it seem like, we are not sure if it is true, that a teacher gets charged with having sex with students on a weekly basis? We need to hire the best and the brightest, but not allow you as parents, to educate your children, and create incentives for that, by giving discounts on property taxes?

DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN SPEND THE NIGHT ANYWHERE! That’s the 11th commandment?

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 12:36am
If democrats had done this to a republican the two-bit media would not be investigating…they would be hanging the Republican in effigy. However….since it is the opposite way,……the media will investigate.

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- FightingBear
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 7:16am
  They did do that to a Republican….Herman Cain.
  
  Where are his accusers now?
  
  Why are they not pressing charges against that monster so that he can never do it again to some other woman?
  
  Not a single shred of evidence….just accusations of an invisible crimes. As soon as he dropped out of the race….quiet……their silence was deafening.
  
  Yes, if indeed a Republican paid to frame Menendez, they got that play right from the Democrats playbook.
  
  The other possibility of course is that Menendez and the Democrats are paying the ****** big bucks to say that she was paid to say that he was her client.
  
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FightingBear
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 9:33pm
Attention Liberals….it appears your playbook has been stolen.

This is an all points bulletin. The liberal playbook has been stolen.

The playing field is being leveled.

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wilbstal
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 9:04pm
The Liberal Bastard is guilty hang him then deport the ****** carcass to another island

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Amazingoly
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 8:54pm
Slimeball Bob needs to step down before he is arrested.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 8:27pm
I have proof of Bob’s illegal activity! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwIEUflY6YI

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Kiba
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 8:19pm
I love it ! Hey lib, remember the countless times you have accused people of being racist especially toward our border problems and such for no reason other than that was the only card you had? How does it feel having your career and future drug across the coals. You deserve whatever you get, if your guilty or not. What comes around goes around. lol…

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spinelessdave
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 8:19pm
Yes I paid her to lie about me Hernandez, how she confused
me for that ugly guy is depressing.

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Canada_Goose
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:59pm
If only the Daily Caller spent as much time investigating the allegations of the lying prostitute with the false affidavit they originally interviewed as they are now spending “independently verifying” her identity.

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NOBALONEY
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:58pm
This is a June 2012 story that was entirely ignored by the MSM, and the press. The only reason for it being kicked around is because Senator Menendez is the chair of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee; which he assummed when Senator John Kerry became our Secretary of State. Senators Menendez, and Lautenberg both refused to answer any of my letters about Menendez’s conduct. New Jersey is sinking fast. Hurricane Sandy was the kockout blow. New York will receive double the amount of Sandy Aid by the end of September 2015. While their total damages were a difference of 4 billion, 36 billion for New York, and 32 billion for New Jersey. Something I wrote about to all concerned over six weeks ago, and still no replies.

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YOURSENSEI
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:56pm
This is what you must know:

OK, exonerating witnesses are / are not credible. . . . got it.

I’ll add that to the list:
Filibusters are / are not a crucial part of the democratic process.
Passing bills through reconciliation is / is not an outrage.
Judges do / do not deserve and up or down vote.

Oh, just the thought of going on exhausts me. You bunch of freaks.

it is so.

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- bannedfromCNN
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 8:38pm
  This is what you must know.
  
  You are a freaking idiot.
  
  It is so, and you suck.
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:54pm
It used to be if you threw enough mud even if it didn’t stick it was enough to get the criminal out of office because most congressmen are criminals. Today you can have allegations of criminal behavior and it’s a resume enhancer.

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American-first
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:20pm
Democrats will not ever investigate one of their own.

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- Walkabout
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:39pm
  I do not think that we will get Menendez this go around.
  
  Unless they want to strike a plea with his campaign donor, the donor will not give him up. The donor won’t give him up unless they threaten to ruin him and also offer a deal. Can you see the Eric Holder DOJ offering this donor a deal?
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 8:15pm
  Mr or Ms WALKABOUT,
  
  This is what you must know:
  
  Yes . . “get Menendez” . . .
  
  It’s a treat when someone like you reveals their motivations.
  
  it is so.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 8:51pm
  C’mon WANGO, Menendez was just chasing under aged kwee kwee on a cheaper market. Surely, that should be enough to disgust you too. Or, is only should a Republican be accused of such? Your true colors shine through as well.
  
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Comeandtakeit
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:16pm
Dominican prostitutes seem to be double- triple-dipping. So to speak. First Menendez pays ‘em, then the lawyer pays ‘em to say so, then the cover-up lawyer pay’s ‘em to say Menendez didn’t pay em. This must be what they mean in the Dominican Republic as “el threesome”.

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gyro
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:16pm
Only question here is do you pay more for a lie or a fling in the hay ?

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- STQ
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:50pm
  Maybe they were paid to say they were paid to lie about Menendez !
  
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Secret Squirrel
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:12pm
Let me get this straight.
The women that said Mendez slept with them are now saying they were paid to lie.
But maybe they were paid to SAY they were paid to lie.
A lot of lying going on here. (and laying too).

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chips1
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:01pm
Spreading lies or spreading legs, they get paid either way.

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- gyro
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:11pm
  wow
  It would take me 6 weeks of thinking to out post that one !
  WOW
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:39pm
What’s a little witness tampering and hampering with an ongoing investigation to a Dem-wit senator? Just more business as usual.

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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:48pm
  AYE RJJ. Also, went back and commented on some things I missed you on…. Scientology etc. Had to run some errands.
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:01pm
  Yeah RJJ! It’s more like, “they were paid to say, that they were paid to lie!”
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:07pm
  @ Zipit
  exactly
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 9:00pm
  TIME, I’ve been in and out myself. Headed that way now to take a look.
  
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shorelineliz
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:38pm
A Democratic Senator from New Jersey having paid sex with underage prostitutes in Dominican Republic? Isn’t this part of his job description? LMAO! Here kitty kitty. Nice kitty.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:40pm
  LOL! LIZ, you’ve cracked me for a good part of the day. Please keep it up.
  
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- shorelineliz
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:42pm
  Let’s see. Menendez. Menendez. Oh. yeah. Hispanic man. Not known for keeping it in their pants.
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:01pm
  He is just a typical dem. Now let’s see 3 under age girls are being paid now to say they were paid then and that they lied? How can we believe them now they admit they are liars.
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:08pm
  RJJ! “Keep it up”??? LIZ, Were you married to El Guapo also?
  
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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:37pm
” We will have a piece up soon.”

Just strikes me funny on a story about prostitution….

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- shorelineliz
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:42pm
  Good one !
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:51pm
  Hi Time,
  
  Can’t we all just get laid.. oops, I mean… get along… oops… not get a long…. I mean… oh well… what were we talking about?
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:54pm
  What is really funny… is that the story here was altered right after I copied that wee bit of a sentence… lol.
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:58pm
  MONK… lmao. I got “lei’d” in Hawaii once, lol. Okay, so… I’ve never been there. What were we talking about?
  
  I also got back to you on your questions on the Scientology topic.
  
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Walkabout
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:36pm
The Mainstream media badgered the wrong prostitutes to say they lied. That is prostitutes who had not made the initial allegations. Now they have to waltz back down there and actually find the right prostitutes.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:42pm
  WALKABOUT, Surely you don’t really expect that. They will only look for others but will spend a longer amount of time coaching them.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:21pm
  RJJ
  
  No, I do not expect them to tell the truth on one of their own.
  
  Maybe if the have a lock on power, they will throw one out as a bone or if one falls out of favor, but other than that they will circle the wagons.
  
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- gyro
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:24pm
  Walkabout are you saying the media had to go back to the hookers over and over and over
  
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