Via R.S. McCain, the Miami Herald took a trip to the Dominican Republican, not on Dr. Melgen’s private jet. The little but important details of the prostitute scandal swirling around Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey check out.
[S]hreds of evidence in Santo Domingo show that, at the very least, the women Williams described exist.
Take an apartment in Santo Domingo’s upscale Gazcue neighborhood that Williams said was used for sexual liaisons. In April emails to a watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Williams alleged that Dr. Salomon Melgen, a friend and major campaign donor to Menendez, rented a unit for a Brazilian prostitute named Maria and a Colombian prostitute named Geraldine.
The apartment exists. When reached by phone, the landlady said that two young women named Geraldine and Maria had indeed lived there last year, and said the nationalities matched.
However, the landlady, who declined to be named, did not believe the women to be prostitutes — she said she thought they were beautiful foreign exchange students — and had never heard of Menendez or Melgen visiting the apartment. But she complained that the women had nearly destroyed the unit, even leaving the wallpaper torn up when they abandoned the apartment last year.
When the little details check out, there’s usually a foundation of credibility to the story.
And then, there’s the mystery Easter flight of Dr. Melgen’s private jet.
Details, details. They keep checking out.
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