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Harry Reid Wanted $600K Bribe to Make Federal Investigation Go Away
FrontPage Mag ^ | 04/21/2014 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 04/21/2014 6:59:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Isn’t there some way we can get money out of politics? Let’s ask Harry Reid.

A Utah businessman is rocking both state and national politics after claiming Utah Attorney General John Swallow helped him broker a deal with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to make a federal investigation into his company quietly disappear, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.

Jeremy Johnson was allegedly told that the price would be $600,000, and claims to have made an initial payment of $250,000 when he was slapped with a federal lawsuit. Now he says he wants his money back.

The Salt Lake Tribune points out that Johnson has no way of knowing whether the funds actually made it to Reid, even if he did make a massive payment to Reid’s alleged intermediary.

Then, with the FTC investigation continuing, Johnson said Swallow suggested Reid could make problems with regulators go away — for a price.

“I said, ‘OK, what do I need to do?’ He’s like, ‘OK, it costs money,’ ” Johnson said, who claimed Swallow was adamant he make a deal.

“I think he told me, ‘Richard Rawle has a connection with Harry Reid,’ ” Johnson said.

He said Swallow at first wanted $2 million to enlist Reid’s help. But [his company] I Works was no longer profitable and he did not have the money, Johnson said, so they eventually agreed on $300,000 upfront and $300,000 later.

So did the money ever make it into Harry Reid’s grubby little hands? There’s no way to know, but it’s not exactly the first time this has come up.

On Monday, Harry Reid’s close friend and donor, Harvey Whittemore was sentenced to two years in prison for funneling more than $130,000 in illegal campaign funds to Sen. Harry Reid’s re-election committee in 2007. He received three felony convictions, his sentence includes $100,00 in fines and 100 community service hours. Whittemore was a former Nevada power broker and named the most powerful lobbyist in Nevada who worked for gambling, alcohol and tobacco industries. His nickname was the “64th legislator”.

According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, Reid and Whittemore go way back; four of Reid’s sons were hired by the law firm in which Harvey Whittemore was a senior partner. Sen. Reid and Whittemore were involved in very big land deals, including federal legislation to help the development of Coyote Springs.

But again, supposedly Reid knew nothing.

The Nevada Democrat also defended his role in fighting Republican attempts to water down Obamacare as a condition to keeping the government open, responding directly to a National Review piece that called him the “villain of villains.”

“When I read this yesterday, I thought, no one likes to be called a villain,” Reid said, reading aloud definitions of the word that mean “uncouth,” “scoundrel” or “criminal.” “I am not a criminal. I am not a scoundrel. So they better get a different definition of me.”

See, he’s not a crook. He even said so.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: bribe; harryreid; reidcorrupt
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To: SeekAndFind

Imagine if Reid were a Republican...the press would have had judged him guilty and be hounding him to resign. However as a Democrats all you hear are the crickets.


21 posted on 04/21/2014 7:30:21 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: logic101.net

I think a contract to perform an illegal act is unenforceable.

So you can’t say “I bribed this politician and he didn’t do what he said he would”.


22 posted on 04/21/2014 7:32:28 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: SeekAndFind

Cooked as the day is long. I support Mark Levin’s Article V and the proposed amendment to return the election of Senators to the way the founders established it AND with the ability of the State Legislatures to recall a Senator who gets Potomac fever the day after arriving there.


23 posted on 04/21/2014 7:37:44 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: SeekAndFind

Didn’t everyone already know that Dingy Harry is crooked as a desert viper? The voters of NV obviously have no sense whatsoever.


24 posted on 04/21/2014 7:40:11 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: SeekAndFind

I always knew that senator in “Godfather II” was Harry Reid!


25 posted on 04/21/2014 7:40:27 AM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: Cheerio

I would push a law in my state legislature that required an automatic recall vote if our senators ever uttered the phrase “my esteemed colleague across the aisle”.


26 posted on 04/21/2014 7:40:39 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Polyxene
I always knew that senator in “Godfather II” was Harry Reid!

Patrick 'Pat' Geary was a United States Senator from Nevada who was manipulated and blackmailed by the Corleone family.

27 posted on 04/21/2014 7:50:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Fascists are immune!


28 posted on 04/21/2014 7:58:29 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: MrB
I would push a law in my state legislature that required an automatic recall vote if our senators ever uttered the phrase “my esteemed colleague across the aisle”.


29 posted on 04/21/2014 8:06:25 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: SeekAndFind

common practice I bet


30 posted on 04/21/2014 8:08:57 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: null and void

i hope he takes as many as he can with him


31 posted on 04/21/2014 8:10:17 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Is the modern day equivalent of the KKK the Bureau of Feudal Land Management, (BFLM) ?

If so, then Feudal Lord Reid would then be “The Grand Dragon of the BFLM.”

Feudal Lord Reid’s Rustlers are hired guns, who are furious but not fast, which also applies to their multimillionaire Leader: Feudal Lord Reid.

With the past Democrat-based KKK and now the present Democrat-controlled BFLM, ethics be damned, as abject fear is the main goal of both of these Medieval Outlaw Gangs, past and present.

“Ethics” will be justified later by Liberals who will write the ‘revised” PC History of these times, past and present; of powerful men with outlaw hatred toward free people in America, Black or White, poor or rich.

The Jackboot Heel of Democat Tyranny is now upon us, again !

FORWARD!


32 posted on 04/21/2014 8:16:02 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Dirty Harry...........


33 posted on 04/21/2014 8:21:45 AM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

Does anyone think that this will have any legs?


34 posted on 04/21/2014 8:22:20 AM PDT by Din Maker (Rand Paul, Rick Perry endorsed McConnell over Bevin. Neither will ever get my vote in 2016.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Who was the last Senator that went to prison?.


35 posted on 04/21/2014 8:43:48 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: txrefugee
Didn’t everyone already know that Dingy Harry is crooked as a desert viper? The voters of Las Vegas obviously have no sense whatsoever.

Fixed it!

36 posted on 04/21/2014 9:01:28 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: Vaduz

“Who was the last Senator that went to prison?.”

Was it the “torch” Robert Torricelli?


37 posted on 04/21/2014 9:01:53 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Heck of a reset there, Hillary")
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To: SeekAndFind
I fielded a lawyer's corrupt suggestion, very similar to this when we had an unusual patent challenge. That was during WJBC's administration. A mere $50K could make the challenge go away. I didn't pay it. It took time, but the patent held up against the challenge anyway, eventually.

HF

38 posted on 04/21/2014 9:07:04 AM PDT by holden
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Don’t think any democrat went they are above the law in all matters.


39 posted on 04/21/2014 9:11:39 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: All

Isn’t there some way we can get money out of politics?


Reid has gotten lots of money out of politics.


40 posted on 04/21/2014 10:15:26 AM PDT by pluvmantelo (Sure would be nice if the same articles weren't posted multiple times)
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