88 women “leaders” silent about Menendez and the girls who were trafficked
/Last week, the New Jersey Democrat State Committee rounded up 88 women operatives and put them in harness to aid Bob Menendez’ comeback bid. Yep, after his brush with political mortality last year, the Democrat is banking on faux outrage by the barking Machiavellians of a feminist fringe to obscure his brutal treatment of women.
Federal documents in 2015 revisited “uncharged allegations of underage prostitution that kicked off the federal probe.”
According to U.S. News & World Report (August 24, 2015) prosecutors did not “explicitly say the underage prostitution investigation came up empty.” On the contrary, the probe is described as having turned up “corroborating evidence.” The federal prosecutors’ filing states:
“While those allegations have not resulted in any criminal charges, there can be no question that the Government has an obligation to take such allegations regarding potential harm to minors very seriously, regardless of who the alleged perpetrators may be.”
“Presented with specific, corroborated allegations that defendants Menendez and Melgen had sex with underage prostitutes in the Dominican Republic, the Government responsibly and dutifully investigated those serious allegations… The indictment here, of course, charges only corruption and does not include any allegations of soliciting underage prostitution.”
Prosecutors twice say there was “corroborating evidence” to support the initial sex crime allegations, for which Senator Menendez and his convicted friend, Dr. Solomon Melgen, face no charges. In the first instance, they write:
"The defendants present their case as exceptional because the allegations of underage prostitution are 'such easily disprovable allegations about something that would hardly be a federal crime even had it been true.' Id. As an initial matter, it is most certainly a federal crime to leave the country for the purpose of engaging in a commercial sex act with a minor, and the defendants’ suggestion to the contrary is unsettling. See 18 U.S.C. §§ 1952, 1591(a)(1), & 2421. Furthermore, the defendants’ dismissive treatment of these allegations is troubling. Allegations of human trafficking and underage prostitution must be taken seriously and cannot be dismissed merely because the alleged perpetrator is a United States Senator. Given the nature and seriousness of the allegations, in addition to the corroborating evidence, it would have been irresponsible not to investigate."
Then, recounting the initial stages of the investigation and apparently corroborating evidence, prosecutors write:
"As would be done in the normal course, the Government took responsible steps to investigate these serious criminal allegations, which were not so 'easily disprovable,' as the defendants suggest. Some eyewitnesses described a party attended by defendant Melgen in Casa de Campo—where defendant Melgen has a home and where defendant Menendez often visited—involving prostitutes. See Ex. 2 at 2; Ex. 3 at 1-2.. Furthermore, defendant Melgen has flown numerous young women from the United States and from other countries on his private jet to the Dominican Republic. Many of these young women receive substantial financial support from defendant Melgen. For example, defendant Melgen flew two young women—whom he met while they were performing at a South Florida 'Gentlemen’s' Club, see Ex. 4 at 1-2—on his private jet to his villa in Casa de Campo the day after paying one young woman $1,000 and the other young woman $2,000. See Ex. 5. Indeed, one of defendant Melgen’s pilots described 'young girls' who 'look[ed] like escorts' traveling at various times on defendant Melgen’s private jet. Ex. 6 at 9:7-16. Some young women who received substantial sums of money from defendant Melgen were in the same place as defendant Menendez at the same time. Moreover, when the allegations were first reported, defendant Menendez defended himself with public statements that are easily disprovable. Specifically, he repeated several times that he had only flown on defendant Melgen’s private jet on three occasions. That representation is demonstrably false. Confronted with corroborating evidence of such serious crimes, it would have been an inexcusable abdication of responsibility not to investigate these allegations."
While Menendez denies these allegations, did the 88 Democrat women operatives ever stop to ask him about them? Did they satisfy their own consciences (if indeed, they possess anything like a conscience) that no woman or girls were sexually abused or enslaved during the period covered by the filings?
Did anyone of them have anything to say when the New York Post filed this story…
Getting these beauties visas was high on Menendez’s to-do list: aide
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Svitlana Buchyk, Bob Menendez and Juliana Lopes Leite.
They all need to be reminded of their silence next time they face the voters:
Afsheen Shamsi, Steering Committee Member, NJDSC South Asian American Caucus
Alison Arne, Atlantic County Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Amie Maria, Cumberland/Salem County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Amy DeGise, Chair, Hudson County Democratic Organization
Analilia Mejia, Executive Director, New Jersey Working Families Alliance
Andrea Smith, Cape May County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Angela Bardoe, Cumberland/Salem County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Angela McKnight, Assemblymember
Angelica Jimenez, Assemblymember
Annette Quijano, Assemblymember
Anita Esteve, Morris County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Ann Twomey, President, Health Professionals and Allied Employees
Anna Maria Tejada, Past President, Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey
Anna Wong, Northeast Regional Director, Action Together New Jersey
Arlene Quinones Perez, Chair, Hunterdon County Democratic Committee
Ashley Henderson, President, Princeton Marching Forward
Barbra Casbar Siperstein, Gender Rights Advocacy Association of NJ
Caitlin Sherman, Hudson County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Careen DeAndrea Lazarus, Passaic County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Carmen Salavarrieta, Angels in Action
Cathy Brienza, JOLT USA
Caty Polanco, Latin American Democratic Association
Cheryl Marciano, Warren County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Christina Zuk, Vice President, New Jersey Young Democrats
Christine Clarke, Environmental Director, Action Together New Jersey
Christine Elias, Gloucester County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Deb Huber, President, NOW-NJ
Devon Mazza, Ocean County Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Donna M Chiera, President, AFTNJ
Dr. Hetal Gor, Advisory Board, NJDSC South Asian American Caucus
Dr. Khyati Y. Joshi, Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Edina Brown, Councilmember, Old Bridge
Elizabeth Cano, Union County Latina Activist
Elizabeth Meyer, Founder, NJ Women’s March
Erin Chung, President and Founder, Women for Progress
Estina Baker, CWA District 1
Gail Black, Statewide Jewish Women’s Advocate
Hetty Rosenstein, CWA
Iris Perrot, Warren County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Jaci Jones, President, Middlesex County Federation of Democratic Women
Jackie Low, Bergen County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Jeanne Fox, Esq., Former BPU President
Jeanne Jordan, Gloucester County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Jill Rhodes, Morris County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Joan Jacobsen, Sussex County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Joan Quigley, Former President of the State Junior Women’s Clubs
Joann Downey, Assemblymember
Kellie Davidson, Morris County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Kelly Shea, Warren County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Laurel Brennan, Secretary-Treasurer, New Jersey State AFL-CIO
Lauren Nicosia, Women’s Health Advocate
Lenace Edwards, SEIU 32BJ
Leslie Huhn, Chair, Sussex County Democratic Committee
Linda Sloan Locke, CNM,LSW
Lindsay Campbell, President, Sussex County NOW
Lisa Anderson, Sussex County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Lisa Bonanno, Gloucester County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Lizette Delgado-Polanco, Vice Chair, New Jersey State Democratic Committee
Marcia Marley, BlueWave NJ
Margaret Weinberger, President, Somerset County Federation of Democratic Women
Megan Coyne, President, College Democrats of New Jersey
Mildred Scott, Sheriff, Middlesex County
Nancy Pinkin, Assemblywoman
Nedia Morsy, Make the Road Action
Pamela Brug, Union County Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Pamela Renee, Councilwoman, Neptune City
Pat Perkins Auguste, Councilwoman, Elizabeth
Patricia Campos, LUPE PAC
Patricia Soteropoulos, Morris County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Patricia Teffenhart, Gender Equity Advocate
Patti Douglass, Morris County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Peg Schaffer, Chair, Somerset County Democratic Committee
Phyllis Salowe-Kay
Rachel Barry, Morris County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Regina Keelan, Democratic Municipal Chair, Atlantic Highlands
Nadia Hussain, Passaic County Director, NJDSC South Asian American Caucus
Safanya Searcy, Labor Leader and Community Activist
Saily M. Avelenda, Esq., Attorney and Activist
Sara Cullinane, Make the Road Action
Shanel Robinson, Deputy Mayor, Franklin Township
Shanti Narra, Middlesex County Freeholder
Shelly Morningstar, Morris County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Stephanie Silvera, Passaic County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Susan Lavine Coleman, Burlington County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Tammi Bathke, Burlington County Co-Chair, Action Together New Jersey
Verlina Reynolds-Jackson, Assemblywoman
Winn Khuong, Executive Director, Action Together New Jersey
Yvonne Lopez, Assemblymember
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