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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 04:56 PM Mar 2013

Dominican official links Daily Caller to alleged lies about Menendez

Source: WaPo

By Carol D. Leonnig and Luz Lazo, Updated: Friday, March 22, 2:55 PM

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.

The Daily Caller issued a statement Friday saying that the information allegedly provided by the Dominican lawyer, Melanio Figueroa, was false.

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.”



Read more: 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?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost




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Dominican official links Daily Caller to alleged lies about Menendez (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2013 OP
This: Turbineguy Mar 2013 #1
Tucker is an idiot Gothmog Mar 2013 #2
He was involved in pushing the Kerry intern lie and Sidney Blumenthal beat his wife lie. blm Mar 2013 #5
Yeah, well EC Mar 2013 #3
Where's the trumpeter of this false story? Kingofalldems Mar 2013 #4
Sue The Bastards!!!! chuckstevens Mar 2013 #6
Kick this one Kingofalldems Mar 2013 #7
Tucker Carlson is scum johnnykooks Mar 2013 #8
I think 'someone' tried to pull this same mo with the colombian hookers last year. Sunlei Mar 2013 #9
so the next time tucker cries wolf warrior1 Mar 2013 #10
James O'Keefe started a trend. Redfairen Mar 2013 #11

Turbineguy

(37,212 posts)
1. This:
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 05:03 PM
Mar 2013

"...... agreed to pay them $500 for sex acts, but in the end they each received only $100.” proves it's a repub scam.

Gothmog

(144,005 posts)
2. Tucker is an idiot
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 05:11 PM
Mar 2013

Tucker is an idiot but I hope that he is smart enough not to be involved in this mess.

blm

(112,920 posts)
5. He was involved in pushing the Kerry intern lie and Sidney Blumenthal beat his wife lie.
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 05:24 PM
Mar 2013

So I wouldn't be surprised at all that he is involved with this lie, too.

 

chuckstevens

(1,201 posts)
6. Sue The Bastards!!!!
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 05:29 PM
Mar 2013

If I were Senator Menendez, I would sue the Daily Caller for so much money that it would shut their lying ass down! JOURNALISM? MY ASS, THEY'RE JOURNALIST!

johnnykooks

(12 posts)
8. Tucker Carlson is scum
Sat Mar 23, 2013, 09:26 AM
Mar 2013

Just by looking at him and hearing him talk anyone can tell he is an over privileged ass who has had everything given to him in this world.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
9. I think 'someone' tried to pull this same mo with the colombian hookers last year.
Sat Mar 23, 2013, 10:33 AM
Mar 2013

Hopefully Americans will toss daily caller on the bs mountian trash heap along with breibart videos and fox hacker backer, 'news'.

Redfairen

(1,276 posts)
11. James O'Keefe started a trend.
Sat Mar 23, 2013, 01:02 PM
Mar 2013

It looks like this sort of fraud will become a regular tactic on the right. Expect to see a lot more corrupt copycats in the future.

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