File Photo by Boyd Loving Sen. Bob Menendez at Ridgewood REORG
NJ Media Looks to Defend Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez
FBI raids office of Menendez donor
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Last updated: Wednesday January 30, 2013, 11:34 PM
BY HERB JACKSON
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
The Record
The FBI raid of a top donor’s office forced U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez on Wednesday to address anonymous allegations highlighted by a conservative website that the senator slept with prostitutes at parties that donor hosted at a resort in the Dominican Republic.
“Any allegations of engaging with prostitutes are manufactured by a politically motivated right-wing blog and are false,” Menendez’s office said in a statement.
Menendez said the donor, Salomon Melgen, was a friend. A spokesman said that Menendez personally reimbursed Melgen for flights on Melgen’s private plane to the Dominican resort. And the senator’s office said no one there had been contacted by law enforcement in connection with the allegations.
The Daily Caller website had said Menendez accepted free travel in violation of Senate ethics rules.
Due to become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week, Menendez is no stranger to scandals involving campaign contributors.
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