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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBOOM! Dominican official links Daily Caller (Tucker Carlson-Editor) to paid lies about Sen. Menendez
from the WaPo: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dominican-official-links-daily-caller-to-alleged-lies-about-menendez/2013/03/22/d81470d0-930a-11e2-8ea1-956c94b6b5b9_story.html?hpid=z1
A top Dominican law enforcement official said Friday that a local lawyer has reported being paid by someone claiming to work for the conservative Web site the Daily Caller to find prostitutes who would lie and say they had sex for money with Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.).
The local lawyer told Dominican investigators that a foreign man, who identified himself as Carlos, had offered him $5,000 to find and pay women in the Caribbean nation willing to make the claims about Menendez, according to Jose Antonio Polanco, district attorney for the La Romana region, where the investigation is being conducted.
It is examining his role in advocating for the interests of a donor and friend, say people familiar with the probe.
The videotaped claims of two women, made with their faces obscured, were posted last fall on the Daily Caller. The site reported that the two women said they met Menendez around Easter at Casa de Campo, an expensive 7,000-acre resort in the Dominican Republic. .?.?. They claimed Menendez agreed to pay them $500 for sex acts, but in the end they each received only $100.
The Daily Caller issued a statement Friday saying that the information allegedly provided by the Dominican lawyer, Melanio Figueroa, was false . . .
read: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dominican-official-links-daily-caller-to-alleged-lies-about-menendez/2013/03/22/d81470d0-930a-11e2-8ea1-956c94b6b5b9_story.html?hpid=z1
The Wielding Truth
(11,411 posts)Archae
(46,301 posts)However...
I wouldn't put it past the Daily Caller to pull shit like this.
Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)zeemike
(18,998 posts)I am sure he is well insulated from all of that with all kinds of plausible deniability.
Besides it was all just a prank.
wryter2000
(46,023 posts)Let Tucker et al. make those denials under oath.
Highway61
(2,568 posts)n/t
UTUSN
(70,649 posts)It was Bowtie's daddy who fed the false story to Matt PUDGE about Sid BLUMENTAL (FALSE wife beating).
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)....Tucker's attorney will interrupt the prosecution's opening statement....
TrollBuster9090
(5,953 posts)Tucker Carlson has no redeeming qualities! The elephant is larger, the horse is swifter, the butterfly is more beautiful, the mosquito is more prolific,...even the simple SPONGE is more intelligent...
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)malaise
(268,717 posts)I'll take Neil Munro for $2,000 Alex!!
VA_Jill
(9,945 posts)it would be either Daily Caller or breitbart.com. It just smells like them!
NCcoast
(480 posts)At no point did any money change hands between The Daily Caller and any sources or individuals connected with this investigation, nor did anyone named Carlos travel to the Dominican Republic on behalf of The Daily Caller."
So his name wasn't Carlos and you gave the money to a middle man. Duh.
TrollBuster9090
(5,953 posts)Nobody named Carlos works here.
Fair enough. Still, if it's all the same to you, I'd like to subpoena The Daily Caller's financial records. Particularly their "Slush Fund" account.
GeoWilliam750
(2,521 posts)Non-denial denial
TrollBuster9090
(5,953 posts)Seriously, though, did 'Carlos' pay by check? Maybe it's time for Sen. Mendez to file a lawsuit for libel, based on this information, and subpoena The Daily Caller's financial records.
Follow the money.
antigone382
(3,682 posts)It is weird and I don't remember the rationale, but I believe that is the law. I could be wrong, though.
Still Sensible
(2,870 posts)People that are not "public figures" and sue someone for libel or slander must prove either falsehood OR malice.
Public figures must prove BOTH falsehood AND malice.
It can be done. I believe some Hollywood types in the last few years have received published apologies and monetary settlements based on the defendants believing they would likely lose even under that standard.
adieu
(1,009 posts)The GOP is incapable of creating things within the bounds of legality.
We can go on with this list:
Vulture Capitalism, Big Banks, Halliburton, the whole Iraq War, Grenada, Iran-Contra, Savings & Loan...
The list is unending.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)And the hits just keep on coming.
(+ a belated welcome to DU )
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)No bowties there, you big d-bag!
tanyev
(42,522 posts)Wearing a sombrero and a long black mustache!
brooklynite
(94,367 posts)...they're FOREIGNERS who speak a FOREIGN LANGUAGE!
The Wizard
(12,536 posts)launched a specious investigation of Menendez when Rove threatened to fire him for not prosecuting enough big name Democrats. That's how Christie stayed employed as a United States Attorney.
Tucker Carlson is a jerkoff.
kentuck
(111,053 posts)Because "someone" has made the decision that NJ could make a difference in who controls the majority in the US Senate? Because they think a Republican can win the next Senate election or that a Republican Governor might appoint a US Senator until a special election is called? But long enough to make a temporary majority work for them? I have been suspicious of these attacks from the very beginning? But who is behind it? The Daily Caller? I doubt it.
brush
(53,743 posts)malaise
(268,717 posts)He's an even bigger fugging loser than O'Keefe.
Fucker is a born loser
Rain Mcloud
(812 posts)Read post number 5 by neverinwinter.
They do a good job of connecting the dots.
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City Lights
(25,171 posts)Ugh, I cannot stand that lying little brat.
MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)dem in texas
(2,673 posts)You are watching the slowing sinking of a right wing favorite who was once considered a rising star. Carlson has sunk so low, but I bet he has a few despicable tricks left him before he fades away or is laughed off the scene.
stlsaxman
(9,236 posts)Overseas
(12,121 posts)spanone
(135,795 posts)David Zephyr
(22,785 posts)bigtree, thanks for bringing this news story to us. I hope this continues to play out.
DFW
(54,302 posts)As in maybe "Tucker Carlos?"
FailureToCommunicate
(14,007 posts)...named Carlos?
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moobu2
(4,822 posts)rks306
(116 posts)Taking their news as fact is kind of funny. You know like taking Mccain advice on military subjects. Iraq war would take a few months at the most.