[Daily Caller] New Jersey U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez accepted nearly $1 million in lavish gifts and campaign contributions from Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen in exchange for the Democrat's political help, including intervention on behalf of Melgen's businesses and for three of his visa-seeking foreign girlfriends.
In a 68-page indictment handed down on Wednesday, the Department of Justice accused Menendez and Melgen, both 61, of engaging in corruption and bribery between 2006 and 2013. According to the indictment, Menendez helped three of Melgen's girlfriends -- a Brazilian, a Dominican and a Ukrainian -- obtain U.S. visas in 2007 and 2008.
Melgen, who has a wife named Flor, met his Brazilian girlfriend -- a model, actress and lawyer -- in 2007. Melgen suggested that his girlfriend move to the U.S. to attend school in South Florida, and she applied for a student visa. On July 24, 2008, a day before her visa application appointment in Brazil, Menendez's senior policy adviser emailed the deputy assistant secretary of state in Brazil in order to grease the wheels.
Womyn, money, Foggy Bottom, Dom Rep.... where could this possibly be headed?
Sad thing is, Melendez needs a chance to defend himself. After all, look what federal prosecutors did to Senator Ted Stevens in Alaska. That was a political persecution through and through designed to throw a seat in an election.
We don't know what the Feds are holding on Mr. Menendez, and it may be that the man is guilty as sin. But given the way the DoJ has acted the last decade, I'm going to wait to see the evidence in open court. And trust that the judge has a good nose for prosecutorial malfeasance...
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Sought to influence immigration proceedings, did he? That's kind of a chuckle coming Holder and Obama. Helped three fashion models gain entry into the United States? How many Mexican and Guatemalan peasants did Obama let into the country? Think I'd rather have the fashion models.
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Meglen's girlfriends should have flown to Mexico. They could have then got the Mexican government's package that assists you in crossing the U.S. border--could have gotten the Spanish version if necessary; maps and directions. They probably could have gotten Obumble's govmint benefits as well.
[Dom Rep Today] Jan 2015 - La Romana.- Former US president, Bill Clinton, who with his wife chose Dominican Republic to spend their family's year-end holidays in the exclusive resort of Punta Cana, on Friday went to the even more exclusive resort of Casa de Campo, where he met with their friends, the brothers Pepe and Alfy Fanjul.
During at least the last 10 years, the Clintons have hobnobbed with the likes of singer Julio Iglesias, the late Oscar de la Renta and other high-profile personalities. Pepe and Alfy want to return to their native Cuba and expand their sugar business. Probably just a coincidence, no ?
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[Dom Rep Today] Jan 2015 - La Romana.- Former US president, Bill Clinton, who with his wife chose Dominican Republic to spend their family's year-end holidays in the exclusive resort of Punta Cana, on Friday went to the even more exclusive resort of Casa de Campo, where he met with their friends, 
