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FROM PAGE ONE HERALD NEWS A9 Wednesday, July 16, 2014 Menendez defense fund sent more than $300,000 Donors include Port Authority commissioner, financiers LbL By MICHAEL PHILLIS STATE HOUSE BUREAU As investigations continue into Sen. Bob Menendez's relationship with a wealthy supporter, 41 people gave him more than $300,000 for his legal defense fund over the last three months. The donations averaged $7,500 and came from political action ment and the Senate Ethics Committee. The disclosure comes after Menendez called on the Department of Justice to look into whether some of the allegations against him were planted. Menendez has pointed to a Washington Post story that said Cuban intelligence agents might have had a role in allegations that he and Melgen frequented prostitutes in the Dominican Republic.

Women who claimed to have been prostitutes later said they fabricated their story-Most of Menendez's legal expenditures were paid to McDer-mott Will Emery LLP, which has almost 20 offices around the world and advertises a staff of around 1,100 lawyers. A spokeswoman for Menendez declined to comment on the IRS disclosures about the legal bills, which were first reported by 2013. Among those who gave money are longtime financier Philip Darivoff, his wife Betsy, Stacy Schusterman of Samson Investments and Port Authority Commissioner David Steiner, all of whom gave $10,000. No contribution was for less than $2,500. Menendez is under scrutiny for his actions that stood to benefit Florida eye specialist Salomon Melgen, including questioning Medicare officials about a disputed regulation Melgen relied on to increase his reimbursements for an expensive treatment.

Ethics violations alleged Melgen was a major political donor to Menendez, and the senator belatedly reimbursed him for free flights he took on Melgen's jet, possibly in violation of Senate ethics rules, after their relationship came under scrutiny. Menendez is fighting investigations by the U.S. Justice Depart 1 jr i commiuees, reai-tJjC estate developers and business executives, according to an Internal MENENDEZ CARMINE GALASSOSTAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Flags at half-staff at Liberty State Park in Jersey City to honor a police officer killed Sunday. Jersey City officer shoots man after attack on him, partner Revenue Service report released Tuesday. So far, Menendez has spent about $650,000 on his legal defense.

Reports released Tuesday show that he spent $250,000 from his legal defense fund, which is in addition to the almost $400,000 his campaign account paid for legal bills pertaining to his defense in nj.com. Alzheimers: Rate declining struck the man, officials said. The officers got out of the vehicle and ordered the man to the ground. One officer opened fire, striking the man, after authorities said the man refused to show his hands and hid a hand in his waistband. The man was taken to a hospital and was expected to undergo surgery for non-life-threatening injuries, the Prosecutor's Office said.

The man's name has not been released. The police officers were also being treated. Memorial removed On Sunday, Officer Melvin Santiago was ambushed by a gunman as he responded to an armed robbery call at an all-night drug store, authorities said. Other officers returned fire, killing Lawrence Campbell. A memorial to Campbell in his neighborhood had been removed by Tuesday morning.

Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop said that he ordered the makeshift collection of balloons, candles, empty liquor bottles and messages of love from friends scrawled on T-shirts taped to a brick wall removed Monday night. "I had it taken down Monday night," Fulop said in a press release. "I am not going to let a few residents pretend like they express the views of a great city like Jersey City," Fulop said. He and other city officials had lashed out that some residents created a makeshift memorial and were grieving for the suspect instead of the officer. "Rest easy," "Thug in peace" and "See on the other side" were among the things friends wrote to Campbell.

Angelique Campbell, Campbell's widow, said Tuesday that she doesn't plan to restore the memorial. Newspaper clippings about the case were added to another memorial nearby to Lavon King, a 20-year-old shot by police after they said he struggled with a police officer and tried to disarm him. By SAMANTHA HENRY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERSEY CITY A Jersey City police officer shot a man who authorities say attacked the officer and his partner with a sharpened fence post early Tuesday. The attack and shooting came just days after a rookie police officer was gunned down in an ambush, leaving police and residents on edge. According to a preliminary investigation, two officers with the emergency services unit saw the 25-year-old man about 2:30 a.m.

and ordered him to drop the post, the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office said in a statement. Authorities said the man threw the post through a passenger-side window of the emergency services truck, hitting an officer in the head. The man then reached through the window and grabbed the officer's rifle, authorities said. The two struggled for the rifle, which went off through the vehicle's door and fewer strokes and better treatment of high blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes, and more education, they said. Asia, Africa An updated study of dementia prevalence by Alzheimer's Disease International in 2009 concluded that its previous estimates for the disease worldwide were too low.

The group now says dementia prevalence appears to have increased from about 5 percent, to about 7 percent, in East Asia, and in Sub-Saharan Africa from between 2 percent and 4 percent, to nearly 5 percent. The estimates were revised based on studies in China and Sub-Saharan Africa and the latest United Nations population Continued from A1 factors like cholesterol and blood pressure, said Dr. Kenneth Langa, a University of Michigan expert on aging who discussed the studies on Tuesday at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference in Copenhagen. The opposite is occurring in some poor countries that have lagged in education and health care, where dementia seems to be rising. More than 5.4 million Americans and 35 million people worldwide have Alzheimer's, the most common form of dementia.

It has no cure and current drugs only temporarily ease symptoms. A drop in rates is a silver lining in the so-called silver tsunami -the expected wave of age-related health problems from an older population. Alzheimer's will remain a major public health issue, but countries where rates are dropping may be able to lower current projections for spending and needed services, experts said. Recent studies from the Netherlands, Sweden and England have suggested a decline, and the new research extends this outlook to some other parts of the world. United States The federally funded Framing-ham study tracked new dementia cases among several thousand people 60 and older over five-year periods starting in 1978, 1989, 1996 and 2006.

Compared with the first period, new cases were 22 percent lower in the second one, 38 percent lower in the third and 44 percent lower in the fourth one. The average age at which dementia was diagnosed also rose -from 80 in the first period to 85 in the last. During that time, there were declines in smoking, heart disease and strokes, factors linked to dementia, and a rise in the number of people using blood pressure medicines and getting a high school diploma, which reduce the likelihood of developing the condition. "The results bring some hope that perhaps dementia cases might be preventable, or at least delayed" by improving health and education, said the study leader, Claudia Satizabal of Boston University. Dallas Anderson, epidemiology chief at the National Institute on Aging, agreed.

"For those who get the disease, it may come later in life, which is a good thing. Getting the disease in your 80s or 90s is very different than getting it in your early 70s," he said. Germany Researchers from the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases say that claims data from Germany's largest public health insurance company suggest that new cases of dementia declined significantly from 2007 to 2009 in men and women. Dementia prevalence the proportion of people with the disease also declined significantly in women ages 74 to 85. There was a trend toward a smaller decline in men, but the difference was so small researchers couldn't be sure of it.

The trends corresponded with egiwerc3ugers Colombia Researchers from Universidad Icesi in Colombia used current population and other sources of information to update a 20-year-old study on dementia and determined that current projections might underestimate dementia cases up to 50 percent. In countries where dementia appears to be declining, the rise in obesity and diabetes threatens to undo progress. "It may be that what we have now is a sweet spot," where people with these problems are still relatively young, said Anderson of the National Institute on Aging. "They're not in the dementia range yet, but what's going to happen? We know they're all in the pipeline." Booker raises compared with Bell's $72,000 age points in a Monmouth University poll released July 1, with Booker supported by 43 percent to Bell's 23 percent. An incumbent that far below 50 percent could be vulnerable, but Bell would need funds to compete.

Herb Jackson Sen. Cory Booker raised $1.6 million from April through June and had nearly $3.5 million in his account at the end of the quarter, his campaign said Tuesday. Booker, a Democrat from Newark, faces Republican Jeff Bell of Leonia, who spent everything winning a low-turnout June primary and finished the quarter with no cash and $15,000 in credit card debt, spokesman Rich Danker said. Bell raised $72,000 and lent his campaign $35,000, he said. Booker led Bell by 20 percent Get your dream home right the first time around! Boiling Springs Savings Bank Beginner Buyers Bonus can make buying your first new house even easier.

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