Mr. Menendez began his government career conducting national security investigations. He also conducted some of the first background investigations of astronauts, most of whom ultimately travelled to the moon. He enforced the Voting Rights laws in the 1960s and 1970s all over the southern United States. He was later employed by the US Department of Labor's Labor Management Services Administration as supervisory special agent. He enforced the provisions of the Taft Hartley Act. Mr. Menendez later transferred to the US Department of Justice's Miami Organized Crime Strike Force. He became the special agent in charge of the Office for Organized Crime and Labor Racketeering Section. Special Agent Menendez was appointed to President Reagan's Commission on Organized Crime as staff investigator from 1984 to 1987. He served as secretary of labor for the State of Florida from 1987 to1992. Mr. Menendez participated in a joint venture with the law firm of Holland and Knight, a national law firm, after his retirement as secretary of Labor. The company Corporate Integrity Services provided investigative services to the law firm. Mr. Menendez was vice president and senior investigative consultant of the company. Upon his retirement from federal service, his government service history was read into the congressional record by Senator Lawton Chiles during the first session of the One-Hundredth Congress. Eugene F. Methvin, senior editor of Reader's Digest, wrote an article on Mr. Menendez and his contributions towards organized crime and labor racketeering investigations in the August 1987 edition, titled "Union in Bondage." Mr. Menendez at times was a visiting lecturer at the FBI Academy located in Quantico, Virginia. The lectures were on methods of conducting organized crime and labor racketeering investigations.
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