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sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 08:47 PM Mar 2013

So who paid for the Menendez/Prostitution lie?

An escort who appeared on a video claiming Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) paid her for sex has told Dominican Republic police that she was instead paid to make up the claims in a tape recording and has never met or seen the senator before, according to court documents and two people briefed on her claim.

The woman identified a lawyer who approached her and a friend to make the videotape, according to affidavits obtained by the Post. That man has in turn identified another lawyer who gave him a script for the tape and paid him to find women to fabricate the claims, the affidavits say.

The escort was one of two women who taped videos that seems to support a tipster’s allegations that Menendez had patronized prostitutes while vacationing in the Dominican Republic.

FBI agents conducting interviews in the Dominican Republic have found no evidence to back up the tipster’s allegations, according to two people briefed on their work.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/escort-says-menendez-prostitution-claims-were-made-up/2013/03/04/31299fe2-8514-11e2-999e-5f8e0410cb9d_story.html


My guess is that the FBI may find the end of the money trail, but we won't be privy to the information.

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So who paid for the Menendez/Prostitution lie? (Original Post) sufrommich Mar 2013 OP
Rush Limbaugh bahrbearian Mar 2013 #1
just a small insight into the games being played on the political field spanone Mar 2013 #2
This smells of Karl Rove. Just sayin. nm rhett o rick Mar 2013 #3
He does seem to carry 2naSalit Mar 2013 #4
Stench is appropriate. nm rhett o rick Mar 2013 #6
All signs point to GOP horseshit right before an election Cali_Democrat Mar 2013 #5
A house of bullshit, built on a foundation of horseshit... JHB Mar 2013 #10
My guess is that your guess is correct. zeemike Mar 2013 #7
I would love nothing more than to see sufrommich Mar 2013 #9
Well don't because suffocating can't be all the fun. zeemike Mar 2013 #11
Yep, Fox News will ask sufrommich Mar 2013 #15
sufrommich, y'think McCain and Lindsey G and Iliyah Mar 2013 #13
No, because BENGHAZI !!!!!!!!! sufrommich Mar 2013 #14
Gosh, I had forgot about the defining event in the Obama Presidency so far Proud Liberal Dem Mar 2013 #24
My guess is that we'll never find out who is really behind it. Boomerproud Mar 2013 #8
The Christian want to be Iliyah Mar 2013 #12
Shelly Adelson? nt geek tragedy Mar 2013 #16
That would be interesting. I'd rather sufrommich Mar 2013 #17
A mysterious deep throat wearing a bow tie Blue Owl Mar 2013 #18
Breitbart's ghost! "BOOOOOOOOhaaaaave yooooooourselves! BOOOOOhaaaaave yoooooourselves!!" :-P Guy Whitey Corngood Mar 2013 #19
LOL Cali_Democrat Mar 2013 #23
I know. I usually don't laugh at my own stupid shit. But this one made me giggle as I typed. :-D Guy Whitey Corngood Mar 2013 #27
lol. nt sufrommich Mar 2013 #26
. Guy Whitey Corngood Mar 2013 #28
Ooh, somebody not happy about this Menendez vindication Kingofalldems Mar 2013 #30
ROFL! pinboy3niner Mar 2013 #29
I'm going to guess the Koch brothers. Fawke Em Mar 2013 #20
CNN reported that ABC News also interviewed the two women, but did not air the story... pinboy3niner Mar 2013 #21
Then ABC should name the "republican operatives". Of course they sufrommich Mar 2013 #25
Fucker Carlson??? malaise Mar 2013 #22
the is what the party of 'no' does 24/7- 7 days a week - 365 days a year.... spanone Mar 2013 #31

spanone

(135,844 posts)
2. just a small insight into the games being played on the political field
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 09:17 PM
Mar 2013

imagine what we never know about

JHB

(37,160 posts)
10. A house of bullshit, built on a foundation of horseshit...
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 10:43 PM
Mar 2013

...atop a mountain of elephant shit.

(or maybe backwards, so we can go with John Stewart's "Bullshit Mountain" meme)

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
9. I would love nothing more than to see
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 10:39 PM
Mar 2013

this land right on the doorstep of the republican party,because it sounds to me like a big legal criminal mess would be the result,but I'm not holding my breath.

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
11. Well don't because suffocating can't be all the fun.
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 10:50 PM
Mar 2013

But if there is a link it will wind up like O'Keeffe and his attempt to bug a congressperson's office...just fade away....just a prank you see.

Boomerproud

(7,955 posts)
8. My guess is that we'll never find out who is really behind it.
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 10:39 PM
Mar 2013

The media will tease us for awhile before we forget about it.

Fawke Em

(11,366 posts)
20. I'm going to guess the Koch brothers.
Tue Mar 5, 2013, 01:24 PM
Mar 2013

They wanted Menendez gone so Christie could pick a Republican for his seat.

I'm betting there will be MORE fake dirt on the horizon for any Democrat serving in a state with a Republican governor.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
21. CNN reported that ABC News also interviewed the two women, but did not air the story...
Tue Mar 5, 2013, 01:33 PM
Mar 2013

...because the credibility of the claims could not be verified. But ABC reportedly did say that the interviews had been arranged by "Republican operatives."



sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
25. Then ABC should name the "republican operatives". Of course they
Tue Mar 5, 2013, 01:40 PM
Mar 2013

won't because "that's not good politics". Heaven forbid we call a crime a crime.

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