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To: Brumar89 who wrote (696320)	1/31/2013 11:08:14 AM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573076

RE:underage Dominican Republic prostitutes to U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez Holy crap. This would be all we would hear about on the cable news cycle if this guy were a Republican.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (696320)	2/1/2013 11:16:12 AM
From: joseffy	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1573076

Media Double Standard Protects Sen. Menendez The Daily Caller (DC) has documented the incredible lack of interest in covering a story involving the FBI and an investigation linked to a prominent Democratic New Jersey U.S. senator. The Miami Herald is reporting, “Stringing up crime scene tape and using a locksmith, the FBI on Tuesday and Wednesday raided the West Palm Beach business of an eye doctor suspected of providing free trips and even UNDERAGE Dominican Republic prostitutes to U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez — who has denied what he calls the ‘fallacious allegations.’” DC, which has been one of the few news organizations to have stayed on this story, points out that it has been covered by local network affiliates in West Palm Beach, Florida, but there has been no coverage of the story by ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC or CNN. Actually, documents posted just last week show that ABC News was aware of this as far back as last May. Menendez was a guest on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, January 27, and host Martha Raddatz chose to not even bring it up. When asked this week by Breitbart News to comment, Sen. Menendez said, “I have no comment and I’m not going to dignify that story.” And this isn’t the only story that has been dogging him lately. The AP reported back in December that “Sen. Robert Menendez employed as an unpaid intern in his Senate office an illegal immigrant who was a registered sex offender, now under arrest by immigration authorities…The Homeland Security Department instructed federal agents not to arrest him until after Election Day, a U.S. official involved in the case told the AP.” The amazing part of all this is that Menendez knows that he can go on shows like ABC’s This Week and there isn’t a chance that he will be asked about any of this. If he were a Republican senator, and caught up in even one of these two scandals, the media would be covering the story constantly. But instead, he is one of the co-sponsors of the latest effort at so-called comprehensive immigration reform. The media don’t want to do anything that might impede that effort. aim.org

To: Brumar89 who wrote (696320)	2/1/2013 11:46:51 AM
From: joseffy	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1573076

Sen. Menendez plays cat-and-mouse game with journalists avoiding hooker-allegation questions NY Daily News ^ \| 1/31/13 \| DAN FRIEDMAN nydailynews.com WASHINGTON - Where’s the senator? A day after allegations swirled that he cavorted with underage hookers in the Dominican Republic, Sen. Robert Menendez played a cat-and-mouse game with reporters. The camera crews parked outside the New Jersey Democrat’s office Thursday never got a glimpse of him. The usually accessible senator managed to avoid reporters almost all day, even as he cast six Senate votes and attended a lunch with Vice President Biden and other Democrats to talk about gun control. The Daily News finally caught up with Menendez as he ducked into an out-of-the-way Capitol elevator with visitors from New Jersey. But he was tight-lipped. RELATED: N.J. SEN. MENENDEZ DENIES SEX WITH PROSTITUTES Joe Raedle/Getty Images FBI agents searched the West Palm Beach, Florida, office of eye doctor Salomon Melgen — Sen. Menendez’s friend and donor. "I have no comment," he said. "I am with people." He denied avoiding the media. "I am with constituents," he said, as the group gave him a buffer in the small elevator. "Sorry." If Menendez wasn't hiding from the press, he sure took an odd route as he traveled through the Capitol - a tactic practiced by a long line of embattled senators At one point, instead of walking through a second-floor corridor to reach the Senate floor, he took a concealed elevator to the first floor, walked along a little-used corridor, and then took an out-of-the-way elevator back to the second floor. From there, he apparently entered the Senate chamber through the only entrance where the media cannot gather outside. RELATED: GOP CONGRESSMAN WANTS PROBE INTO ARREST OF N.J. SENATOR'S INTERN Joe Raedle/Getty Images FBI agents carried away potential evidence from Dr. Salomon Melgen’s medical-office complex in several vans. On the Senate floor, he chatted with colleagues like New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand during a series of votes, before ducking out a rear door, missing reporters again. Menendez played hard-to-find a day after his office said he reimbursed Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen $58,000 for two trips to the Dominican Republican. On those trips Menendez supposedly consorted with prostitutes, including potential minors, secured by Melgen, according to allegations by the conservative Daily Caller Website. The FBI raided Melgen’s office in West Palm Beach on Tuesday, but it was unclear if the raid was related to the New Jersey senator. The senator’s office has dismissed the accusations that he consorted with prostitutes or did anything illegal as fabrications. RELATED: SEN. BOB MENENDEZ'S INTERN FACES DEPORTATION Joe Raedle/Getty Images It was unclear if the FBI raid on the medical office was related to Sen. Menendez or the Daily Caller’s allegations against him. Democratic colleagues on Wednesday both defended Menendez and distanced themselves from him. "He's build an almost sterling reputation for a lot of years," said fellow New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg. "And our hope is that what we're hearing is not as it's presented." "This is a terrible tragedy, and we're yet sure what all the facts are," said Lautenberg, a Democrat. New York Sen. Chuck Schumer(D-N.Y.) called Menendez "a fine senator" and "man of integrity." "I don't know anything about it," said Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) after calling Menendez "a friend." "Any questions in this regard, direct to him," Reid said. As Thursday’s cat-and-mouse game showed, that might not be easy.