On Wednesday, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) asked Chuck Hagel, the former Republican Senator from Nebraska and President Obama's nominee to become Secretary of Defense, about a comment he allegedly made in 2010 concerning "apartheid" and Israel.
21 Feb 2013
On Monday, Sal Russo, co-founder of Tea Party Express, the political action committee that sponsored Rand Paul's response to President Obama's State of the Union address, said that his group was considering a nationwide bus tour specifically focused on the Latino community.
19 Feb 2013
On Thursday, NBC reported that attorneys for former San Diego Mayor Maureen O'Connor and federal prosecutors cut a deal that allows her to avoid jail time if she pays back the $2 million she allegedly stole in 2008 from the foundation she and her late husband founded.
18 Feb 2013
Dr. Michael Repka, Medical Director of Governmental Affairs of the American Academy of Opthalmology, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview “it doesn’t seem possible you could get four doses [of Lucentis] out of a single vial. I would think that is hard to understand.” Repka noted that he was not commenting on the Melgen investigation, but was providing general information about standard practices among opthalmologists for the use of Lucentis in the treatment of macular degeneration.
15 Feb 2013
Fausto Rosario Adames, a respected journalist in the Dominican Republic and editor of the well known Acento news website, has called on Dominican President Danilo Medina to launch an investigation of possible fraud in the disputed and controversial port security deal involving Dr. Salomon Melgen and his friend, Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ).
14 Feb 2013
Not everyone was thoroughly entranced by President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday night.
13 Feb 2013
It seems clear that the New York Times will continue its investigation into Senator Menendez. With each new story, the Times, Breitbart News, and other journalistic outlets are discovering more questionable details about the relationship between Menendez and Florida opthalmologist Dr. Salomon Melgen.
12 Feb 2013
The saga of the Dominician port security deal that has embroiled Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and his friend and major donor Dr. Salomon Melgen began in December 2000 when retired Major General Javier Juan Rene Beauchamp, Commander of the Dominican Armed Forces from 1975 to 1978 and "one of the strong men of the government of 12 years of Joaquín Balaguer," was assassinated at his home in the Dominican Republic just months after Hipolito Mejia was elected as the country's new president.
10 Feb 2013
Dr. Salomon Melgen, the Florida doctor at the center of the influence peddling controversy surrounding Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), donated more than $700,000 to support the Senator's reelection. Breitbart News has confirmed that Melgen also gave four New Jersey Democratic county committees $103,500, ostensibly to assist the local Democrats' get-out-the-vote efforts, in the final weeks of the 2012 election campaign.
10 Feb 2013
Two politicians involved in Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign have contradicted GOP strategist Karl Rove's boast of directing the conservative icon's Texas operation that year.
8 Feb 2013