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From The Washington Post:
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.
Now, the question remains (as journalist Tracey Eaton posed in an effort to provide balance after collaborating with a pro-Castro group that was targeting Senator Menendez):
If the informant [using the pseudonym "Peter Williams"] is lying about Menéndez, he has done a serious injustice to the senator and should be punished. American authorities should track him down and prosecute him for making false statements to a federal agency. That is a crime punishable by up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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.
Now, the question remains (as journalist Tracey Eaton posed in an effort to provide balance after collaborating with a pro-Castro group that was targeting Senator Menendez):
If the informant [using the pseudonym "Peter Williams"] is lying about Menéndez, he has done a serious injustice to the senator and should be punished. American authorities should track him down and prosecute him for making false statements to a federal agency. That is a crime punishable by up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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