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An escort who appeared on a video claiming Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) paid her for sex has told Dominican Republic police that she was instead paid to make up the claims in a tape recording and has never met or seen the senator before, according to court documents and two people briefed on her claim.
The woman identified a lawyer who approached her and a friend to make the videotape, according to affidavits obtained by the Post. That man has in turn identified another lawyer who gave him a script for the tape and paid him to find women to fabricate the claims, the affidavits say.
The escort was one of two women who taped videos that seems to support a tipsters allegations that Menendez had patronized prostitutes while vacationing in the Dominican Republic.
FBI agents conducting interviews in the Dominican Republic have found no evidence to back up the tipsters allegations, according to two people briefed on their work.
Menendez has denied the prostitution claims and called them entirely false smears used by enemies to try to defeat him in his recent re-election campaign and his selection as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Its amazing to me that anonymous, nameless, faceless individuals on a Web site can drive that type of story into the mainstream, but thats what theyve done successfully, Menendez said last month. Now, nobody can find them. No one ever met them. No one ever talked to them, but thats where were at. So the bottom line is all of those smears are absolutely false and, you know, thats the bottom line.
Escort says Menendez prostitution claims were made up - The Washington Post
The woman identified a lawyer who approached her and a friend to make the videotape, according to affidavits obtained by the Post. That man has in turn identified another lawyer who gave him a script for the tape and paid him to find women to fabricate the claims, the affidavits say.
The escort was one of two women who taped videos that seems to support a tipsters allegations that Menendez had patronized prostitutes while vacationing in the Dominican Republic.
FBI agents conducting interviews in the Dominican Republic have found no evidence to back up the tipsters allegations, according to two people briefed on their work.
Menendez has denied the prostitution claims and called them entirely false smears used by enemies to try to defeat him in his recent re-election campaign and his selection as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Its amazing to me that anonymous, nameless, faceless individuals on a Web site can drive that type of story into the mainstream, but thats what theyve done successfully, Menendez said last month. Now, nobody can find them. No one ever met them. No one ever talked to them, but thats where were at. So the bottom line is all of those smears are absolutely false and, you know, thats the bottom line.
Escort says Menendez prostitution claims were made up - The Washington Post
