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Tapes could be trouble for Menendez
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| Last Edited | *crickets chirp* Sep 28, 2006 09:50am |
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| News Date | Thursday, September 28, 2006 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "The psychiatrist at the center of recent Hudson County corruption cases recorded U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez's close ally invoking the powerful Democrat's name while pressuring the doctor to divvy up county contracts, he and several others said Wednesday.
Dr. Oscar Sandoval, who bribed and then helped imprison a former county executive, said he made tapes that back up his earlier allegations that attorney and Menendez friend Donald Scarinci ordered him to share his county jail contracts with another physician, or else lose them.
Scarinci suggested that he was relaying the wishes of Menendez, Sandoval has alleged in court papers.
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Several Democratic insiders confirmed Sandoval's characterization of the recordings. One person close to the Menendez campaign and familiar with some of the content called it "really embarrassing" to Menendez."
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