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.
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Turbineguy
(37,212 posts)"...... 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)Tucker is an idiot but I hope that he is smart enough not to be involved in this mess.
blm
(112,920 posts)So I wouldn't be surprised at all that he is involved with this lie, too.
EC
(12,287 posts)what a surprise....Tucker Carlson at his best....
Kingofalldems
(38,361 posts)chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)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!
Kingofalldems
(38,361 posts)johnnykooks
(12 posts)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)Hopefully Americans will toss daily caller on the bs mountian trash heap along with breibart videos and fox hacker backer, 'news'.
warrior1
(12,325 posts)will anyone listen?
Redfairen
(1,276 posts)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.