Bob Menendez is the senior United States Senator from the State of New Jersey and a member of the Democratic Party. First appointed to the U.S. Senate in January 2006, he was later elected Chair of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in January 2013. In 2015, he was also ranked #1 on The Hudson Reporter's annual Power List of the "Fifty Most Powerful Political Figures in Hudson County".

The Department of Justice is investigating Bob Menendez, active United States Senator of New Jersey and close Hillary Clinton associate, for claims that he engaged in illicit activities with underage girls in the Dominican Republic. As part of the same Department of Justice case, Menendez is currently undergoing investigation for assisting Salomon Melgen in procuring visas for Melgen's young sexual mistresses.(1)

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Initial allegations in 2012

In November 2012, the conservative political news and opinion website Daily Caller published allegations that Menendez had contact with underage prostitutes in the Dominican Republic.

One of the women who had accused Menendez stated that she had been paid to falsely implicate the Senator and had never met him. The Daily Caller says this woman was not interviewed for their story.

On March 18, 2013, [the Washington Post reported] police in the Dominican Republic announced that three women had said they had been paid $300–425 each to lie about having had sex with Menendez.

Source: Wikipedia

2015 indictment and continued investigation

Despite claims from Mendendez's office that he was not involved in any criminal activity, he would be indicted in 2015 for corruption charges, the extent which continue to be investigated to this day. It should be mentioned that despite these investigations Mendendez is still an active Senator for New Jersey.

On April 1, 2015, Menendez was officially indicted on federal corruption charges in the United States District Court, related to alleged favors he did for Florida ophthalmologist Salomon Melgen and gifts he received from him, including campaign donations and private flights. Melgen was charged as well. Menendez has pleaded not guilty to all charges.(2)

"In further bad news for Menendez, the DOJ says the senator’s trip to the Dominican Republic was “during time frames in which one unidentified alleged minor victim specifically claimed to have had sex with him.”" (3)

Furthermore, Bob Menendez has connections Hillary Clinton, Jeffrey Epstein, and even was trafficking children from the Dominican Republic during the same time period Laura Silsby was attempting to take children to the Dominican Republic without permits.

A federal probe into the underage trafficking allegations turned up "corroborating evidence" and thus should not be entirely dismissed while he continues to be investigated for various crimes.(4)

In a separate, but possibly related incident, one of Menendez's interns was an illegal immigrant and wanted sex offender.(5)