WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- Sen. Robert Menendez has asked the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into claims that the Cuban government attempted to derail his political career through a trumped up prostitution scandal.
Menendez, D-N.J., sent a letter to officials in April asking investigators to pursue evidence from the CIA that Cuban agents had been credibly linked to 2012 allegations that he had visited underage prostitutes. The son of Cuban immigrants, Menendez also holds the gavel in the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee and is one of Washington's most ardent critics of former Cuban President Fidel Castro and his regime.