Sen. Menendez just reimbursed almost $60k to doctor now under investigation by the feds

Posted by The Right Scoop on January 31st, 2013 in Politics | 35 Comments

Remember the story about Sen. Menendez and the two prostitutes in the Dominican Republic? Well the flights he made to the Dominican Republic were courtesy of a Florida eye doctor who is now under investigation by the feds – well, until now. Menendez apparently just reimbursed the doctor almost $60k for the two flights he made down there:

WFB – Sen. Bob Menendez (D., N.J.) disclosed late Wednesday he wrote a $58,500 check this month for trips he took on the private jet of a donor currently under federal investigation for fraud and political corruption.

Menendez is facing increased scrutiny over his relationship with Dr. Salomon Melgen, a South Florida eye doctor and major Democratic donor.

Melgen’s office was raided late Tuesday by federal agents on two separate investigations: one into potential Medicare fraud, and one into corruption allegations about the relationship between Menendez and Melgen, according to the Miami Herald. The latter investigation began last year and was launched after a liberal watchdog group, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), forwarded a tip to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice about the undisclosed trips and the senator’s alleged interactions with underaged prostitutes.

With the $58,500 check, Menendez quietly reimbursed Melgen for two flights he took on the doctor’s plane in 2010, NBC News reported late Wednesday.

The New Jersey Democrat’s relationship with Melgen first came under scrutiny after the Daily Caller published a series of stories on those trips.

As first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, the Middlesex County Republican Organization made an ethics complaint about the trips to the U.S. Senate Ethics Committee in a November letter.

“We can assume the Senate Ethics Committee is looking at the allegation,” Menendez chief of staff Dan O’Brien told NBC Wednesday when asked if the ethics committee had contacted the senator’s office.

When asked about the letter in November, a Menendez spokesman told the Free Beacon, “I don’t know anything about it.”

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Larchmonter

This isn't about using prostitutes. It is about the next sickening "fairness". The rights of the underaged to have full use of their body for pleasure, profit and perversion.

PatrickHenrysBody

What Menendez did is considered a badge of honor among the leftists of the Democrap party. He will not willingly resign. At the most, he will get a slap on the wrist and then it's business as usual.

factsobill

Warren Jeffs in a Senator's clothes. Great camo for a pedophile alledged or true! Bob's just part of O's travelling lying salvation show.

shadetree56

how do you get away with child molestation? - put a "D" next to your name.

c4pfan

Yet, Rubio and the gang still work with him. So, who cares?

Laurel

Where does a Senator get that kind of money?

PatrickHenrysBody

Ask Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Charlie Rangel....

Happy

He's a democrat, what difference does it make if they were prostitutes or family friends visiting him in the Dominican Republic?

Sober_Thinking

What a joke... this horn dog gets away again... and America is always left holding the bag.

Culture of Corruption.

PatrickHenrysBody

It's likely he attended the Slick Willie school of Womanizing and graduated summa cum laude.

Sober_Thinking

There's a sick joke in there, isn't there?

PatrickHenrysBody

Could there be? :-P

Rocco11

This skunk needs to be held to account.

anneinarkansas

Let us hope that they nail this horror of a man who sits in a high place.

But being a Dimocrat, he will probably go scot free.

So Sad America!!!

Conniption Fitz

They just borrow Billy Jeff Clinton's teflon suit...the one Hillary wore to the 'hearings.'

aposematic

The real question is: was Melgen involved in human trafficking? A multimillionaire eye doctor with a private plane and frequent trips to the Dominican Republic for prostitution. The Senate ethics committee will pull a slow mo investigation eventually slapping the D on the wrist if this gets to bad for them to ignore.

tinlizzieowner

Maybe Menendez thinks $60,000 will help keep this guy's mouth shut. ;-)

3seven77

How do we know he's using his own money? This sleezeball probably has more than one questionable donor.

And isn't it nice that he can just write a $58,000 check? I can't write a $58,000 check. Can *you* write a $58,000 check? Maybe we're paying those Congress Critters a little too much, ya' think?

PatrickHenrysBody

He's likely using funds from one of his overseas accounts he uses for a tax shelter.

Orangeone

Where did the $60,000 come from? Soros? Redistribution of tax dollars?

tinlizzieowner

All of the above, no doubt.

Conniption Fitz

Miami Herald:

"[Marco] Rubio is one of the few big-name Florida politicians who has not received campaign money from the Melgens, who have contributed to Sen. Bill Nelson and Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Joe Garcia, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart, among others."

http://moelane.com/2013/01/30/bob-menendezs-foreign-underage-prostitution-story-stubbornly-not-going-away/

Guess the Democrats know about and facilitate the doctor's medicare fraud.

HOPE THERE IS AN INVESTIGATION and some Democrats get to spend time in the Caboose.

Orangeone

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen will likely be the only one investigated

colliemum

Look, he's a dem, so nothing to see here, right?

After all, he re-paid that doctor after he was found out, that's ok, innit, like?

And that's one of the senators Rubio is 'working' with on immigration ...

Orangeone

Oh mum, that was good And that's one of the senators Rubio is 'working' with on immigration ... Gang of 8 is right!

Sandra123456

...plus sexual perversion is a Democrat politician's resume enhancer.

(I'd say from that picture he has recently doused his hair with Grecian 44.)

sDee

Meet the teflon face of "immigration reform" politicians. Nice little incubator we've been fueling.

Brian Jones

An EYE DOCTOR that owns an AIRPLANE!!! Yeah, there's fraud there...

Conniption Fitz

Bobby Menendez makes dirty old men look clean... but he's a typical (D)

Billy Boy Clinton liked his girlies young too. Barney Frank also likes 'em young, but his preference are boys.

Guess that's what Democrats mean when they talk about loving children.

Libertyship46

Menendez isn't going to quit because you can never shame a Democrat, especially in New Jersey, into resigning. The only way they quit is by having criminal charges brought against them, like Torricelli. I really, really, hope Menendez goes down, because if he does New Jersey finally has a Republican governor who can appoint a Replublican senator until the next election. No matter how you get a win, it's still a win, and that would be a big win, especially in a Senate controlled by the Democrats.

Orangeone

I agree with sjmom, Christie, I wager Christie will appt someone from the Muslim Brotherhood to keep Ellison company.

sjmom

Understand your point but don't count on Christie; he appointed a Muslim judge and any R he appoints here is no better than a D.

sjmom

I guess the money was to pay for the prostitutes Menendez stiffed. If I remember that's how the entire thing came to be known; the girls complained he did not pay them. Leave it to a Dem to want everything for free. Or did he think the girls would be honored to "serve" a man of such low regard? Welcome to NJ!