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So Sen. Menendez of New Jersey, the chairman of the Sen. Foreign Relations Committee, is under investigation for his trips to the Dominican Republic. There are allegations that he was diddling very young hookers there – which could be a crime under a U.S. law which prohibits foreign travel to boink underage prostitutes.<\/p>\n

Will Menendez invoke the “Greaseman’s Daddy Defense” – “Hard to believe a girl that big could be only 14”? [[The Greaseman was the most popular comic DJ in the DC area in the 1980s & 1990s, and told plenty of stories about his father’s legal troubles.]]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So Sen. Menendez of New Jersey, the chairman of the Sen. Foreign Relations Committee, is under investigation for his trips to the Dominican Republic. There are allegations that he was diddling very young hookers there – which could be a crime under a U.S. law which prohibits foreign travel to boink underage prostitutes. Will Menendez […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nSen. 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