allegedly taking fancy vacations, among other things from this florida based eye doctor. the government says the doctor melgon wanted help with the government bureaucracy, including medicaid billing inquiry. both menendez and melgon now face a number of counts, among them that menendez solicited and accepted domestic and international flights on private jets. first class airfare. uses of a villa. access to an exclusive resort. a stay at a luxury paris hotel. expensive meals, golf outings and tens of thousands of contributions to a legal defense fund. i m angry because prosecutors at the justice department don t know the difference between friendship and corruption and are have chosen to twist my duties as a senator and friendship into something that is improper. menendez will step down from his powerful post he is expected in court some time
friend now an eye surgeon in florida and i had a relationship. he s rich i m not he gave me gifts. the things i did for him i would have done for anybody and whether or not i got the gifts. the weak part of that defense, he didn t report any of these total over the course of how many years? about six years. that included thousand dollars a night hotels. luxury flights on the doctor s private jet down to florida. included hundreds of thousands of contributions to legal defense funds and other things. dr. melgon allegedly made contributions in senator menendez behalf to other democratic campaigns this is a very complex interwroevoven story. we broke this story at the daily caller he was taking these flights, all senators know when you fly on a private aircraft, you have to disclose it.