Discussion: Too Many Girlfriends: Feds Allege Menendez Helped Donor Secure Visas For Foreign Models

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This is so romantic. I bet that Melgen guy really sweeps them off their feet.

“And also remember the bank thing please. Thank you. A kiss.”

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How fucking dumb can Menendez be? And the staffers, jesus! I bet the emails were on their work accounts too

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The good doctor had to pay for women? A looker like that?

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I dunno, this seems like pretty small ball to me. I get the charges, but what exactly got harmed? As long as we equate money with speech, how do we keep guys like Menendez from supporting their supporters? If Menendez supported other constituents, what is this really all about?

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described in the indictment as an actress, model and lawyer, had applied to graduate school at the University of Miami

Brazilian? Actress? Model? Lawyer? Grad school? Sounds like the old '100% honestly-motivated humanitarian gesture" defense is likely.

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Wouldn’t this be the perfect time for Republicans to pass legislation getting money out of Elections?

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Too late in the day for that ploy; gonna have to wait another 366 days for the next shot at it.

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Federal prosecutors alleged that one of the ways Menendez repaid Melgen for those undisclosed gifts was by influencing immigration visa proceedings for the ophthalmologist’s young, foreign girlfriends.

This certainly adds another interesting chapter in Congress’s “supposed” issue about sex trafficking.

Too bad for you, Menendez.

Next?

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One of the issues not brought up in the reporting is what happened to these women? Did the brazilian go to law school. Should be easy to find out.

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Melgen is an entrepreneur, the owner of “Bimbos ‘R’ Us.” Hence, a job creator. You got a problem with that?

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judging by looks alone, melgen is guilty.

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Shocked, yes SHOCKED am I to find out that a rich and powerful man in America is both corrupt and a pig.

Alert the goddamned media.

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Huh. Money corrupts politicians. Who didn’t know? Besides the supreme court and George Will?

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They look like gnomes who happen to be brothers.

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In New Jersey confirming what we all knew about the state…

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A kiss on the hand
May be quite continental,
But diamonds are a girl’s best friend

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Poor Dr. Melgen, trying so hard to cohabit like his namesake. Truly, it is better to be the king than the ophthalmologist!

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Gross. These two are sleaze balls.

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Woman to Mae West: “Goodness! What diamonds!”
Mae West to woman: “Goodness had nothing to do with it.”

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