Alicia Menendez continued to write on gender issues after she graduated, ever quick to write on the latest political sex scandal. In 2008 she was fascinated by the prostitution story of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
“As the updates streamed in, I got a good look at how the story was shaping,” she wrote at the time. “Eliot Spitzer did something very wrong but fairly ordinary: he hired a prostitute. It’s only so extraordinary because of who Eliot Spitzer is and what Eliot Spitzer purports to stand for.”
She remained fascinated by Spitzer’s sex scandal and others, even going so far as to write whimsical online advice for politicians going through them, titled “What to Do When Scandals Hit”:
“Admitting that you’ve done something wrong is the first step. If you’re there, that’s half the battle,” she wrote. After trying to find a true friend, she enumerated a few dos and don’ts. “Don’t give yourself room to lie (any more than you already have). Don’t rely on half truths. And please, please don’t over share.”
That post (and others like it) have been scrubbed from the website that she co-founded. Perhaps she’s trying to follow her own advice offered as a candidate’s daughter in 2008: “The cardinal rule for candidates’ children, whether they choose to hit the campaign trail or not, is the same: Don’t do anything stupid.”
Repeated attempts to reach Alicia Menendez by email and Twitter were unsuccessful.
Bob Menendez was re-elected to a second term in November, and instantly became chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It took his predecessor, John Kerry, 24 years to work his way up to that powerful post. But, at the peak of his celebrity and power, Menendez has spent the last two week embroiled in scandal.
The problem began with his relationship to one of his top donors, Salomon Melgen, a 58-year-old eye surgeon who moved to Florida from the Dominican Republic in 1980.
Melgen and his family have given Menendez, and groups working to help elect Menendez, more than $750,000 in the last two election cycles. Menendez has admitted neglecting to reimburse Melgen for two trips on his private jet to the Dominican Republic in 2010, an “oversight” that Menendez has since rectified. But after the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided Melgen’s Florida practice this week, other questions have surfaced. Though Menendez has distanced himself from Melgen, the Senate Ethics Committee has opened an investigation into several of their ties.
Melgen is being investigated for more than $8 million in Medicare fraud for claiming up to four times the usual worth of a vial of eye medication. Melgen has paid that money back to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid but is looking to reclaim it, saying he followed the guidelines.
Menendez twice in 2009 and 2012 called the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid about Melgen’s case, though he denies lobbying or pressuring the agency on Melgen’s behalf.
Meanwhile, Menendez encouraged Melgen to partner with a former staffer of his, Pedro Pablo Permuy, to buy into a U.S. security company that held a contract to screen cargo coming in from Dominican ports. Some competing business interests have questioned the contract, worth $500 million, because of Melgen’s lack of port security experience. In his capacity at the time as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Menendez pushed the Dominican government to honor the contract and enforce the deal.
A story in the Miami Herald detailed how Melgen often bragged about his cozy relationship with Menendez and used the senator’s name to threaten rivals with IRS audits and Medicare investigations. Melgen himself was not only under investigation for Medicare fraud but records show he owes the IRS $10 million in back taxes.
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The group did not make mention of an FBI investigation into the New Jersey Democrat, reportedly focusing on the question of whether he engaged in illicit sex with underage prostitutes while in the Caribbean nation.
In a handwritten statement provided last year to a whistleblower, a young prostitute detailed allegations that she slept with Menendez beginning “when I was 16 years old.”
“During [one] visit of Senator Bob Menendez to the Dominican Republic, I had intimate relations with him on more than one occasion,” the unidentified woman wrote, according to a Daily Caller translation. She is the latest of at least six women purported to have engaged in sex for money with Menendez.
Senator's sex scandal shuts feminist daughter's mouth
"Don't do anything stupid."
That's rich. Now of course there are sex scandals on both sides, but since the media always gives Democrats a pass, we'll just have to bring them out to light ourselves. Surely Feminists wouldn't want to be seen as providing an aegis for prostitution and corruption as long as the perps are Democrats right?