article_snippet: But more troubling are the ethics questions lingering about New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez's relationship with Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen, a wealthy and prolific donor.
article_snippet: New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez has also repaid Melgen $58,500 for the value of plane trips
article_snippet: New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez took on the doctor's private jet, mostly to the posh Dominican Republic resot Casa de Campo.
article_snippet: CNN reported that Melgen was one of the Medicare system's most-reimbursed doctors nationwide, during the years when Melgen was also a major donor to New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez and to the Majority PAC.
article_snippet: That political action committee, run by former Reid staffers, collected more than $700,000 from Melgen and made sure $600,000 of Melgen benefited New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez’s re-election campaign.
article_snippet: THE DOCTOR: Salomon Melgen, a wealthy Florida ophthalmologist and a major Menendez donor, was ordered to pay back Medicare for $8.9 million in overbillings, and Menendez intervened with HHS for Menendez .
highlights_snippet: Federal grand jury has been probing whether New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez traded political donations from eye doctor Salomon Melgen for improper government favors .
  
highlights_snippet: HHS accused Salomon Melgen of overbilling Medicare by $8.9 million and ordered New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez to pay it back; New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez intervened about New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez case .
  
highlights_snippet: New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez also paid Salomon Melgen back $58,500 for trips on the donor's private jet, calling New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez failure to reimburse New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez an 'oversight'
  