the Sen. Robert Menendez update thread.

[I invented that]

Sen. Robert Menendez raised concerns with top federal health-care officials twice in recent years about their finding that a Florida eye doctor — a close friend and major campaign donor — had overbilled the government by $8.9 million for care at his clinic, Menendez aides said Wednesday.
Menendez (D-N.J.) initially contacted federal officials in 2009 about the government’s audit of Salomon Melgen, complaining to the director overseeing Medicare payments that it was unfair to penalize the doctor because the billing rules were ambiguous, the aides said.
Last year, in a meeting with the acting administrator of the agency in charge of Medicare and Medicaid, Menendez again questioned whether federal auditors had been fair in their assessment of Melgen’s billing for eye injections to treat macular degeneration, the senator’s aides said.
The agency had ordered Melgen to repay the $8.9 million, and at the time of both conversations, Melgen was disputing the agency’s conclusion. His appeal continues to this day.

what's that saying, quid pro something?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...0ba_print.html

[Chriza]

I don't give a FUCK

[stripes]

honest to fucking gawd, why do we keep electing the same crooked fucks over & over again....this is what happens w/o term limits...gubmint run amuck & on the take. wise up people.

[shitcunt]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2663422.html

How much longer can he hang on?

[MatthewT]

some kind of scandal brewing in the Dominican Islands; dude tried to stop government dollars from taking the place of his buddy's dollars....

[I invented that]

now menendez is crying he's a victim of racism

http://www.northjersey.com/community...imination.html

[shitcunt]

now menendez is crying he's a victim of racism

http://www.northjersey.com/community...imination.html

pulling that shit removes any doubt of his guilt.

[BeetTheBoxer]

[MatthewT]

does he "need to spend more time with his family" yet?

[shitcunt]

still barely a blip in the media.

Sen. Robert Menendez sponsored legislation with incentives for natural gas vehicle conversions that would benefit the biggest political donor to his re-election, the same eye doctor whose private jet Menendez used for two personal trips to the Dominican Republic, an Associated Press investigation found

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20130304/DA4Q68HG1.html

[MatthewT]

$60,000 in airplane rides -----> 8.9 million in medicare fraud

[Bosch76]

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmem...en.php?ref=fpb

no hookers. too bad.

[shitcunt]

Sure about that?

[I invented that]

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmem...en.php?ref=fpb

no hookers. too bad.

too bad they were talking to the wrong hooker.

[JDs tees]

Classic right wing overreach. Take a legitimate issue (free plane rides) and try to crowbar something salacious/worse, thus losing credibility.

[I invented that]

Classic right wing overreach. Take a legitimate issue (free plane rides) and try to crowbar something salacious/worse, thus losing credibility.

[shitcunt]

Looks like lefty journalists found their own hooker to claim it was all a lie. Liberals immediately believe this new hooker is trustworthy. At least they are keeping the story alive.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...n-allegations/

[JDs tees]

Looks like lefty journalists found their own hooker to claim it was all a lie. Liberals immediately believe this new hooker is trustworthy. At least they are keeping the story alive.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...n-allegations/

I guess we're just ignoring the lawyer that says it was fake?

[I invented that]

I guess we're just ignoring the lawyer that says it was fake?

i guess if a lawyer said it, it must be true

[shitcunt]

I guess we're just ignoring the lawyer that says it was fake?

i dont see much reason to trust a lawyer.