Robert “Bob” Menéndez (born January 1, 1954) is the senior United States Senator from New Jersey. He is a member of the Democratic party. First appointed to the Senate in January 2006, he was elected Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in January 2013.
Menendez is one of three Latinos in the Senate; the others — also Americans of Cuban ancestry — are Republican Marco Rubio of Florida and Republican Ted Cruz of Texas.
On January 2013 Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), join other senators in announcing that they have reached agreement on the principles of sweeping legislation to rewrite the nation’s immigration laws. In January, the senator’s role in Washington grew as he became chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Precisely during those days came to the news some alleged statements, always are expected when someone with the importance of Senator Menendez reach such high place within the Senate of the US.
The claims of two women from Dominican Republic that made public to the press Sen. Menendez had paid her and patronized prostitutes while vacationing in the Dominican Republic. According affidavits obtained by the Washington Post few weeks later the woman went back again to the press reporting a local lawyer had approached her and a fellow escort and asked them to help frame Menendez and a top donor, Dr. Salomon Melgen.
That lawyer has in turn identified a second Dominican lawyer who he said gave the woman a script and paid her to read the claims aloud. The first lawyer said he found out only later that the remarks would be videotaped and used against Menendez, the affidavits say. FBI agents conducting interviews in the Dominican Republic have found no evidence to back up the tipster’s allegations, according to two people briefed on their work.
Menendez from the beginning denied the claims, saying they were made by enemies trying to undermine him as he sought reelection and became chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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