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Do a favor for Bob Menendez, and he'll do a favor for you:
Sen. Bob Menendez used his influence to advocate for a Dominican Republic business deal that helped a longtime friend and donor whose South Florida office was raided by federal agents this week.
Menendez questioned Obama administration officials at a July hearing about what it was doing to help U.S. businesses that he felt were being unfairly treated by the government of the Dominican Republic and other Latin American countries.
One of the companies Menendez was apparently referring to: ICSSI, acquired the year before by Dr. Salomon Melgen, a Palm Beach County eye doctor and friend. The company was seeking to enforce a contract it had won to X-ray Dominican Republic port cargo that could be worth $500 million to $1 billion over two decades.
"You have another company that has American investors that ... has a contract actually given to it by the — ratified by the Dominican Congress — to do X-ray of all of the cargo that goes through the ports," Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey, said at the July 31 hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. "And they don't want to live by that contract either."
So Dr. Melgen flies his good buddy Bob down to the Dominican Republic for some "full service" R&R, and in turn Bob tells the State Department to put its weight behind freeing up a cool billion dollars or so in revenue for Doctor Love's newly acquired business venture.
Sweet!
Foreign Relations, it's all fun and games until
the FBI starts asking questions.
Posted at 10:37 by Chris Wysocki
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