[beyond the sea]

Please tell it to the old media.

This country is dead if the media remains as sick and biased as it is presently!

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

tick...tick...tick...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Reid hung up the phone when questioned about the deal by AP last week.

Thread on that:

Harry Reids ethical hangup (Audio of Dingy Harry hanging up)

[Prost1]

"The federal government investigated this whole matter thoroughly, and there was never any implication of impropriety on my part," he said.

That is because someone other that Patrick Fitzgerald needs to look into the matter.

[elhombrelibre]

Psssst...MSM, don't tell anyone.

Can anyone tell me that if this were Newt Gingrich, Dennis Hastert, John McCain, Bill Frist, or some other Republican that the very old media with its Liberal bias would spike this story as they have? NO. They'd lead with it more than their beloved "Foley wrote dirty IM's" story.

[Sister_T]

The "Culture of Corruption" begins and ends with the DemocRATs.

[HawaiianGecko]

Clearly Pelosi must resign.

 

[rellimpank]

--I enmailed Harry with a resignation demand yesterday--so far no answer--

[AmeriBrit]

An earlier post I made this morning on another thread.

In approx 1995 Ted Kennedy was involved in a similar scheme when he sold his Mclean house to Mr.Eric Hotung of Lippo [Chinese] and received $1 million more than the asking price for future favours, and somewhere I have a file where John Edwards also did the same thing.

http://www.supremelaw.org/sls/email/box014/msg01471.htm

[caisson71]

Reid is looking at "technical" problems with his deal. This SOB is looking for the splinter while ignoring the log in his eye. He's trying to find out what "is" is. Doesn't he sound like the rest of his crooks?

[Rockingham]

I guess Hillary has her eye on being the Senate Democrat leader, so Harry Reid gets a shiv in the ribs.

[Lancey Howard]

What's with this weasely "possible violation" crap?
Somebody slap the cuffs on that crooked p.o.s. Reid.

[NonValueAdded]

Hey, hey, Ho, ho, Harry Reid has got to GO!

[right-wingin_It]

[Texas Songwriter]

Where to the hell is the IRS? Ethics committee? Ethics committee???? What good will that do? If the Ethics committee threw the book at him it would have no effect. The dems would hire him for their leader because he is invulnerable in Nevada and because they find no wrong thing he has done. This is how democrats behave universally. They are vice in all of its forms. Virtue does not reside in a democrat. But the IRS could put him in jail, or the district attorney or the state of Nevada attorney general. But where are they?

[Lancey Howard]

This underscores the need for the Republicans to take back the White House and the Executive branch. If Republicans were in charge of the Justice Department and the FBI, that lying, thieving scumbag Sandy Berger would never have gotten away with a slap on the wrist for stealing and destroying classified documents from the National Archive, and the FBI would be on Harry Reid like flies on dog feces, yessiree. It's imperative that the Republicans take back the White House so this kind of corruption can be prosecuted to the fullest....

Oh, wait-a-minute.... Nevermind.

What a friggin' waste of time.

[Political Junkie Too]

"We have been friends for over 35 years. We didn't need a written agreement between us," Brown said.

What a way to run a business. How does one audit that?

-PJ

[wouldntbprudent]

Jay Brown, Reid's partner in crime, also came up in this:

JANE ANN MORRISON : How Dario Herrera paid for his defense remains under wraps

Enquiring minds want to know: Who paid former Clark County commissioner-turned-convicted felon Dario Herrera's legal fees?

We know who paid Mary Kincaid-Chauncey's fees for Richard Wright ... you did. The flower-shop owner's only attorney was paid the court-appointed rate of $92 an hour after she was legally declared indigent just before the eight-week trial started.

Herrera hired four attorneys and one technical expert for his defense team. At night, the three New York attorneys went to the Four Seasons to rest their heads. (I've been assured Jerry Bernstein got a good rate at the Four Seasons because his firm represents the hotel company.) Of course, the technical expert was at the Orleans, and local counsel David Brown slept in his own bed.

Herrera's attorneys' bills ran over $1 million, some say closer to $2 million.

Herrera didn't have the money. Maybe his wife's family was footing the bills? The speculation over who paid for Herrera's legal defense ranged far and wide.

Conspiracy theorists speculated someone who didn't want Herrera to squeal on them might be underwriting the bills.

David Brown's dad is prominent attorney Jay Brown, and Jay Brown's name popped up frequently on wiretaps as being hired by topless club owner Michael Galardi to lobby Commissioners Bruce Woodbury and Yvonne Atkinson Gates on behalf of Galardi's business interests. During the trial, Galardi said he paid Jay Brown to lobby for him and didn't know whether Brown used any of that money to bribe anyone.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/May-20-Sat-2006/news/7513675.html

[wouldntbprudent]

The senator's aides said that no money changed hands in 2001 and that Reid instead got an ownership stake in Brown's company equal to the value of his land. Reid continued to pay taxes on the land and did not disclose the deal because he considered it a "technical transfer," they said.

Reid aides also said they have no documents proving Reid's stake in the company because it was an informal understanding between friends.

Oh, REEEEAAAALLLLY. That's an awfully close friend if your doing $1M+ land deals with no formal docs. And, hmmmm, don't most states require all real property transfers to be in WRITING?

[wouldntbprudent]

So much for Reid's "informal transfer" to Brown's company---one of many sources on Nevada law:

Verbal transfers are worthless

[snip]

Yet thousands, perhaps millions, of property owners have spoken those worthless words to lovers, friends, relatives and spouses. The reason verbal real estate promises are worthless is the Statute of Frauds requires real estate transfers to be in writing to be valid.

Equally important, written title transfers must be recorded in the county or city where the property is located to have effect against other claimants to the title.

http://rgj.p2ionline.com/ShoppingChannelNoPopUp/ss/index.aspx?webstoryid=9707796&area=SS&type=page&AdgroupID=43453