NRSC: Menendez may have broken Senate ethics rules, federal campaign finance laws...

The Daily Caller ^ | 11/01/2012 | Matthew Boyle

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NRSC: Menendez may have broken Senate ethics rules, federal campaign finance laws with alleged Dominican sex trip

The executive director of National Republican Senatorial Committee said Thursday that New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez “may have violated Senate ethics rules and federal campaign finance laws” with his alleged sex trip to the Dominican Republic.

The Daily Caller first reported early on Thursday that two women from the Dominican Republic are alleging Menendez paid them for sex around Easter time this year at Casa de Campo, an expensive 7,000-acre resort in the Dominican Republic.

The two women claimed Menendez agreed to pay them $500 for sex acts, and that they each received only $100.

NRSC executive director Rob Jesmer said in a statement that the allegations against Menendez “are very serious and deserve examination.”

Senate ethics rules and campaign finance laws could apply to the question of how Menendez got to the Dominican Republic, and to his use of a campaign donor’s resources — including a private plane and a home at Casa de Campo.

Menendez donor Salomon Melgen, an ophthalmologist and owner of an eye clinic in Florida, appears to have lent Menendez the use of his plane on several occasions. It is known that Sen. Menendez has been a regular visitor to the Dominican Republic. Menendez was a guest at Melgen’s Casa de Campo home on at least one occasion, according to a news account.

Menendez’s GOP challenger, Republican state Sen. Joe Kyrillos, has called on the senator to release his travel records in the wake of this scandal breaking. The NRSC’s Jesmer echoed that call.

“Fortunately, there is a simple way for Senator Menendez to begin addressing these questions, and that is by releasing his schedule and travel records related to Easter Week of this year, as well as the other dates in question,” Jesmer said in the statement.

Menendez spokeswoman Tricia Enright has refused to answer any questions on the subject. “We’re not going to respond to a completely false accusation,” she wrote by email on Wednesday evening.

Enright has not answered when asked if Menendez will release his travel records.

Jesmer said Menendez’s “continued refusal” to release his travel records “should rightfully raise questions in the minds of every New Jersey voter.”

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Don't forget "Einstein" Jerry Springer who paid a prostitute with a personal check.

He seems to have done pretty well since then, though.

Keepin' it classy, as all democrats do.

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Oops, I forgot the reason Jerry Springer got caught, was his personal check to the hooker bounced.

C'mon dems, at least PAY for your hookers, geez.

Nobody likes a cheapskate "John".

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Harry is used to dealing with “legal” prostitution. His is the only state that allows it. The “sex workers”, however must be of legal age. Will that make any difference to Harry? I’m guessing no. I think he’s more inclined to think he believes in the now renounced Mormon Fundamentalist belief that once a woman passes puberty, she is “of age”.

Please note that I differentiate between the current LDS and the sect that Jeffs and his followers. I suspect Reid tends to prefer the old way.