article_snippet.sent: Perhaps the most embarrassing of the accusations is that New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez used New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez influence to get visas for Dr Salomon Melgen's multiple young lovers abroad - including a Brazilian model who posed on the cover of 'Sexy' magazine and a Ukrainian actress who moved to Florida to live in one of Melgen's homes.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Salomon Melgen bring at least three mistresses to U.S. on visas - including Brazilian actress Juliana Lopes Leite (left) and Ukrainian model Svitlana Buchyk (right) New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez and Dr Salomon Melgen met at a fundraiser in 1993, shortly after New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez was voted into the Senate.
article_snippet.sent: The two quickly became close, with New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez being invited to fly on Melgen's private jet and visit New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez villa in the Dominican Republic on several occasions.
article_snippet.sent: According to the details in the indictment, New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez began helping out New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez rich friend in 1998, when Dr Salomon Melgen wanted to fly a 22-year-old girlfriend - identified as 'girlfriend 2 in court documents - and her 18-year-old sister from the Dominican Republic to spend Christmas with New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez in the States.
article_snippet.sent: According to the indictment, a New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez staffer reached out to the U.S. consul general in Madrid on behalf of a 'famous person in Spain who was a 'good friend' of Dr Salomon Melgen and needed a visa to 'undergo medical evaluation for plastic surgery in the U.S'. '
article_snippet.sent: Menendez is also accused of intervening to help Svitlana to the U.S. a few years later, when Menendez wanted to study law at the University of Miami.
article_snippet.sent: The indictment says Menendez knew Leite was one of Dr Salomon Melgen's paramours when Menendez agreed to help with Menendez visa application, ordering Menendez adviser Lopes to write a letter in Svitlana's favor to the State Department.
article_snippet.sent: Menendez would like to advocate unconditionally for Dr. Melgen and encourage careful consideration of [Girlfriend 1]’s visa application.'
highlights_snippet.sent: According to a federal indictment unsealed this month, Menendez intervened in the visa applications of three women tied to donor Dr Salomon Melgen .
  