Posted on 02/05/2007 7:05:14 AM PST by george76
Congress: Harry Reid's skill at making money in real estate makes Donald Trump look like an apprentice. If he ever writes his autobiography, it should be called "The Art of the Shady Deal."
If you accept Harry Reid's explanation that his most recent land deal is on the square, then he has a bridge to sell you. No, not that bridge. Another bridge built over the Colorado River a few miles from property in northern Arizona he bought at about $167 an acre. He doesn't own that bridge, either.
But he has sold land he did not own at the time he sold it before.
It is presumably due to his real estate skills that Reid can afford to stay at the Ritz-Carlton when he's in Washington, D.C., and can afford to pass out $3,000 in Christmas bonuses to its staff. Oops, that was money from his campaign fund, a federal no-no.
Time and space do not permit reciting the complete catalog of the ethically challenged Reid's escapades. But they all have a familiar ring to them — the ring of a cash register.
Last fall, we commented on how Reid in 2001 failed to disclose to Congress a transfer of land to a company owned by another friend, one Jay Brown, the sale of which would net Reid a cool $1.1 million from land he no longer owned.
Moving Nevada forward. Got it.
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Nothing to see.
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move on...
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ping
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Until the GOP makes an issue of the Liberals ethical transgressions, nothing will happen (e.g., Reid, Pelosi, Murtha, Tubba and Bubba Clinton, Teddy Kennedy, and all the rest of the anti-American human debris). It seems as though the GOP only wants to suck it up and not fight back. How pathetic is that?
Culture of Corruption is truly bipartisan.
---pathetic is a good word--I my senior senator was a Repub he'd be in prison---
MSM would rather not cover this story...
This has been going on forever and I am sick of it. We engage using the Queensbury Rules and the other side is street fighting. How many times have you seen a talking head show with a Republican and Democratic debating, where the Republican starts out saying politely "My esteemed colleague..." and the democratic responds with a vicious personal attack?
The nets also control who gets on these shows, and Republicans know that the only way to get face time is to be a good little lapdog to the bulldog Dem.
Duke Cunningham is behind bars for far less.
Tom DeLay was drummed out of office for far less.
You are absolutely correct! They're all cowards that turn my stomach. Nice guys come in last! Perfect example, the last election where the GOP rolled over and played dead. Not a one of them is worthy of licking the bottoms of our brave soldier's boots.
You and I can't be the only ones that are disgusted beyond description at these gonadless cowards.
MSM will never cover this story...
LOL
nice
We go to jail for bad things.
Nothing happens to the dems when they do much worse.
Crooks who became politicians or politicians who became crooks. All the same?
IMHO power corrupts. Another argument for term limits.
If the MSM really followed the money and disclosed how their rat buddies finance their life styles and campaigns, there would have never been President Carter and Clintoon.
Harry Reid, Pelosi, Boxer, Fineswine and other rats would be in jail instead trying ruin this country.
Of course the MSM will never do this, as their top dogs probably received their share of the illegal money along the way to DC.
IBD just doesn't get it. The vital thing is that Reid bought the realty interest here from an IRS qualified pension fund controlled by Haycock for somewhere between a fifth and a tenth of the property's actual value. Hence, Haycock and Reid effectively embezzled the real value of that property from the fund and deprived the fund's beneficiaries of that value. In return Haycock got Reid to lobby for the lubricants legislation.
Thus, the facts as reported indicate that Reid and Haycock engaged in a double criminal conspiracy: 1) they conspired to enable Haycock to embezzle the excess value of the realty from the pension fund he controlled for Reid's benefit and 2) they entered into a bribery conspiracy whereby Haycock transferred the pension fund's realty interest to Reid in return for Reid sponsoring favorable legislation. These are serious felonies both under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the bribery statutes of the United States.
It's truly surprising how few media outlets, even in the new media, have commented on this probable, major criminal conspiracy involving the Senate majority leader.
Thus, the facts as reported indicate that Reid and Haycock engaged in a double criminal conspiracy:
1) they conspired to enable Haycock to embezzle the excess value of the realty from the pension fund he controlled for Reid's benefit and
2) they entered into a bribery conspiracy whereby Haycock transferred the pension fund's realty interest to Reid in return for Reid sponsoring favorable legislation.
These are serious felonies both under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the bribery statutes of the United States.
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