Posted on 04/01/2015 5:36:51 PM PDT by WonkyTonky
You’d never know it from the mainstream media puff pieces of Harry Reid’s sudden retirement, but it was a long string of corruption scandals—including a recent one involving his attorney son—that drove the veteran Nevada senator to abruptly leave public office.
For nearly a decade Judicial Watch has investigated and exposed Reid’s involvement in a multitude of transgressions and JW even warned the Senate Ethics Committee, but not surprisingly, no action was ever taken. On multiple occasions the Senate minority leader appeared on JW’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” list for his role in a number of political scandals that got more serious as his seniority and clout in Congress increased.
As far back as 2006 Reid was in hot water for violating Senate rules by concealing a seven-figure payoff on a suspicious land deal orchestrated by a longtime friend known for political bribery and mob ties. The influential senator secretly collected a $1.1 million profit on land he hadn’t personally owned for years. To hide the deal, Reid transferred ownership, legal liability and tax consequences to a company owned by a former casino lawyer who has been investigated by federal authorities. Months earlier Red got busted for accepting gifts from a state agency trying to influence him. In that scheme the lawmaker quietly took very expensive ringside boxing tickets from the Nevada Athletic Commission while that state agency was trying to influence him on the sport’s federal regulation.
In 2012 Reid made JW’s corrupt politician list because he was embroiled in an influence-peddling scandal involving a Chinese “green energy” client of a Nevada law firm run by his son Rory. The senator was one of the Nevada projects most prominent advocates, helping recruit the company during a 2011 trip to China and applying his political muscle on its behalf, according to a mainstream news report. Reid’s son was an attorney at the prominent Las Vegas firm that represented the Chinese Company, ENN Energy Group, and helped it locate a 9,000-acre desert site for well below its appraised value from Clark County.
In 2013 Reid was again named to JW’s most corrupt politician list for taking more than $130,000 in illegal campaign funds from a shady donor, Harvey Whittemore, who eventually went to jail. Whittemore hired four of the senator’s sons at a law firm in which he served as senior partner and worked with Reid on huge land deals that required federal legislation. Additionally, Reid sponsored at least $47 million in earmarks that directly benefitted organizations with close ties to one of his sons, Key Reid. The legislator also colluded with President Obama to nix a proposed nuclear waste dump in Yucca Mountain Nevada after U.S. taxpayers spent $15 billion on the project.
More recently Reid abused his authority to pressure the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to expedite a $115 million foreign investor visa deal critical to his son’s casino client. Reid got the DHS to override agency procedures to rush through hundreds of visa applications from foreign nationals who helped fund a Las Vegas hotel and casino that hired Rory Reid to provide legal representation for the project, according to a recent news report. The article goes into tremendous detail about the illicit scheme that evidently served as the straw that broke the camel’s back. A few days later Reid said he wouldn’t run for a sixth term in the Senate. His hometown newspaper called it a “surprise announcement.” On his government website, Reid posted a goodbye video saying he did his best though hasn’t been perfect.
Reid needs to be removed from office and the Republican governor of NV can appoint his replacement.
The air in the Capitol building will improve immensely.
RATS don’t care about corruption. What got rid of Ried is that both state houses went Republican. That means he no longer is going to have an easy path to STEAL his elections like he has before. In short he is quitting before the voters toss his worthless a** out!
Here is the Breitbart story about the DHS
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/26/harry-reid-pressured-dhs-to-expedite-115-million-foreign-investors-eb-5-visa-deal-critical-to-sons-casino-client/
People are now getting tired a small, tiny vocal minority trying to get their way, finally seeing how corrupt many Dmeocratic politicians are and realizing that there never was a real economic recovery because we never addressed the issues that could have resulted in a very booming economy across the board, not just in a few sectors like finance and technology.
It tells us a lot about Democrats that not one is willing to call Reid out for lying on the Senate floor about Romney’s not having paid taxes. . . totally mendacious; he made the whole thing up. Now that BO has been reelected, partly because of this lie, he claims the trick worked. . . so what? The end justifies the means.
Isn’t that the definition of corruption?
HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (Youtube video 2:44 Uploaded on Mar 28, 2011)
Harry Reid, Caught in Land deal in Nevada 5/8/2014 (FR thread, video linked there)
Harry Reid’s name surfaces in Utah bribery case against two ex-attorneys general July 15, 2014
It’s not really etirement if he’s still there. He just said he won’t run for re-election. That’s not retirement. Make him go now. THAT’s retirement.
Well that and getting sideways with the Las Vegas mob and getting the living stew beat of out him.
The beat down some shady ally gave Dingy Harry precipitated his retirement. Lord knows what he did to generate it
The weaselly little shit ain't gone, yet.
He's still got plenty of time to be an annoying little shit.
I'd like to see him frog-marched out of the capitol building, but I know that won't happen.
Reid hasn’t paid income taxes for 10 years. Some guy told me that.
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I have asked myself numerous times, what kind of a sorry bass turd would vote for this lowlife SOB?
Yep, UpChuckie Shumer and Dick Durban need to go.
It had to be those casino guys that his son was involved with.
I’m thinking Harry found out the hard way that the guy
he met at the bar wasn’t one of the Village People.
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