WASHINGTON— Sen. Robert Menendez,who has maintained all along that he never paid prostitutes for sex,said he is looking forward to whatever evidence emerges from courts in the Dominican Republic to vindicate him.
A Dominican lawyer on Monday released an affidavit from a 23-year-old woman saying she fabricated a story about Menendez paying her for sex.
“I’ve always said that these are false,they’re smears,” Menendez,D-N.J.,told reporters at the Capitol,referring to published reports that he paid prostitutes for sex in the Dominican Republic. “And,so,I look forward to seeing whatever the Dominican courts have that prove what I’ve said all along.”
Vincio Castillo Seman,a Dominican lawyer,told reporters at a news conference Monday in the Dominican Republic that a woman identified as Nexis de los Santos now claims both that she “never went to bed with” Menendez and never actually met him.
Castillo,the son of a Dominican presidential adviser and the brother of a member of the country’s Congress,has been entwined in the scandal himself,accused of hosting outings on his yacht in which Menendez used the services of prostitutes.
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