Bob Menendez at Ridgewood REORG Photo by Boyd Loving
Report: Relative of top Bob Menendez donor pushed apparent retraction of prostitution claim
David Martosko
Executive Editor
A Dominican politician related to a top political donor to Sen. Bob Menendez was the driving force promoting new claims from a woman who now says she concocted an allegation that the senator paid her for sex in 2012.
The Miami Herald reported Tuesday that Vinicio Castillo Semán, the cousin of Dr. Salomon Melgen, first released an affidavit Monday from a Dominican escort named Nexis de los Santos Santana, who recanted what she said were accusations she made in a media report.
The Washington Post quickly connected that affidavit to The Daily Caller’s Nov. 1, 2012 report, in which two women said on videotape that they were paid to provide sexual favors to Menendez. But de los Santos’ statement Monday appears to describe a different interview that was never published.
Everyone jumped on the story because they wanted it to be true. Time for an apology.
And time to find out who was responsible for creating this story.
Sorry, where there’s smoke…..
NPR (generally reliable and quite sympathetic to Democrats) ran a rather damning story yesterday about Menendez’ influence peddling and shady campaign contribution deals.
I wouldn’t hold my breath for any apologies.
and the Miami Herald generally very pro Democrat and pro Latino , has been carrying the water on this one fro some time as well as the fact the FBI does not usually run frivolous investigations
She said that she was paid to say that she had sex with Menendez – and btw she was not underage.
Give up. I know that you don’t like him but that is no reason to keep the lie going. There has been no proof and the person making the accusation said that she read a script.