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ThePuppetShow ago

Great example that none of this is "fake news".

You're also doing a great job on the wiki from everything I've seen, thank you.

AreWeSure ago

Actually this is false.

The Department of Justice is investigating Bob Menendez, United States Senator of New Jersey and close Hillary Clinton associate, for claims that he engaged in** illicit activities with underage girls** in the Dominican Republic.

The Justice Dept is not investigating Menedez for sex with underage girls. In fact, they investigated the allegations and closed that part of the investigation. They have charged him with corruption. That is because the child-sex allegations which first appeared a week before the 2012 election in the Daily Caller were shown to the work of his political opponents who paid escorts to lie about him. Many news organizations passed on this story because they doubted the women's credibility including ABC News, the NY Times and even the NY Post.

Woman Says She Was Paid to Lie About Claim of Sex With Senator Menendez

Allegations that Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had sex with prostitutes in the Dominican Republic were a lie, according to a young woman who signed an affidavit saying she was paid to make the false claims in the week before last year's elections.

Last fall, Republican operatives, who insisted on anonymity, helped arrange the woman's appearance, along with two additional women, in back-to-back, on-line interviews with ABC News and a conservative news website, the Daily Caller.

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ABC News did not broadcast or initially report on the claims because of doubts about the women's veracity and identity.

The woman, who was not present when her affidavit was revealed at a press conference by an attorney in the Dominican Republic Monday, said her performance last year was arranged by a Dominican lawyer who had her rehearse statements and promised to pay her well.

Early Tuesday the Daily Caller said the woman who said she was lying was not one of the women featured in their original report. However, the attorney who presented the affidavit Monday identified the woman to reporters in attendance as the female wearing a yellow shirt in a video on the Daily Caller website.

"I never slept with Mr. Menendez nor Mr. Melgin," the woman, Nexis de los Santos Santana, said in her sworn statement, adding she did not know the Senator or the doctor.

AreWeSure ago

It's hard to understand how you missed any of this if you are looking into Menedez. Wikipedia has this is in their section of "Federal Investigations" under his name.

In November 2012, the conservative political news and opinion website Daily Caller published allegations that Menendez had contact with underage prostitutes in the Dominican Republic.[126][127] The allegations were promoted by Republican Party operatives, who arranged interviews for two women accusing Menendez of patronizing prostitutes with ABC News and the Daily Caller.[128] However, ABC News News and other news organizations such as the New York Times, and the New York Post declined to publish the allegations, viewing them as unsubstantiated and lacking credibility.[127][128][129] One of the women who had accused Menendez stated that she had been paid to falsely implicate the Senator and had never met him.[128][130] The Daily Caller says this woman was not interviewed for their story.[131] Menendez's office described the allegations as "manufactured" by a "right-wing blog" as a politically motivated smear.[132] On March 18, 2013 police in the Dominican Republic announced that three women had said they had been paid $300–425 each to lie about having had sex with Menendez.[133]

It's been four years since the women admitted they were paid to lie. This isn't hidden or obscure.

ThePuppetShow ago

You forget who runs the Dominican Republic now and how corrupt the police are.

http://www.caribjournal.com/2013/04/09/haiti-dyncorp-awarded-contract-to-support-un-haitian-police/#

You also seem to forget that your sources are "fake news" and shouldn't be trusted.

AreWeSure ago

The one source of a fake story in this case was the daily caller. ABC the NY and the NJ peppers all passed on the story because the accusers didn't seem credible