Fact-checking is always appreciated, Ditto. I did already correct myself on the Hamilton’s title a bit further up the thread, and you are quite correct there—noticed that after I had already posted, unfortunately. On the other two items, I would defend my original wording, though it would take considerable space and go beyond the scope of the article to get into details. Briefly: on ABSCAM, they did nail a few but there were others who got off. On BCCI, yes, it was not fully investigated until later, but it was already operating under Carter and one of the principals involved, Bert Lance, was already controversial early into Carter’s term. There are a few sections in the BCCI final report touching on BCCI’s connections to Georgia and Carter.
#51: Fedora: Any connection between Reid and the late Alan Dorfman (Las Vegas casino skimmer from the mob), who ended up with two to the head or back in a car trunk in Chicago?
You’re right about the Chicago and Kansas City mob having direct ties to the Vegas Mobe. That is what later involved the casino skimming of Dorfman and his execution, among other activities.
Any investigation by Carter’s Attorney General (Ed Levi), then Griffin Bell and Asst AG Ben Civiletti (later AG), would be an effort in futility or coverup. Civiletti later tried to let two indicted Soviet spies come back into the US and avoid a trial (Martha Dodd Stern and Alfred Stern, in “The KGB against the ‘Main Enemy’: How the Soviet Intelligence Service Operates Against the United States”, Herbert Romerstein and Stanislav Levchenko, Lexington Books, 1989. Levi was just a dumb Chicago schmuck.
Wonder if any of Reid’s land-deals/schemes in Nevada involved the Mustang Ranch? That would be a logical place for him to have earned the nickname “Little Harry” Reid or “Dingie Harry.”
His son escaped, barely, a major investigation into illegal donations/work re the real estate scheming of his father, as you mentioned. The whole story was never told to the public.
I personally think that Dingy, like Mohammed Ali, took too many punches to the head during his boxing days, which would explain his political-babble and incomprehensible mumblings. Or, he could just be a shrewd politician who got lucky by playing dumb. OR he could just be dumb, and lucky.
Either way, he is a blithering idiot who should be investigated as a threat to the nation’s sanity.
I’ll buy his first straight jacket.