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Indicted Businessman Names Harry Reid as Alleged Recipient of Massive Bribe
GOP the Daily Dose ^ | 4/17/2014 | Amy Elizabeth

Posted on 04/17/2014 7:37:18 PM PDT by Beave Meister

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.

The Salt Lake Tribune continues, explaining how the bribe supposedly came to be in 2010:

(Excerpt) Read more at gopthedailydose.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: blm; bribery; comfress; congress; corruption; demagogicparty; democrats; dirtyharry; fraud; harryreid; jeremyjohnson; johnswallow; lyingliberalliars; memebuilding; neilkornze; nevada; obama; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; reid; utah
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To: Chode
We are a Banana Republic......with NO bananas!

The Democrats are LAW-Less because Republican "leaders" are BALL-LESS!!

61 posted on 04/18/2014 4:31:35 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Beave Meister

The Democrats are LAW-Less because the MEDIA WANTS THEM TO BE!!


62 posted on 04/18/2014 4:32:25 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: B4Ranch

I’m certain there is a cutout between Reid and the cash. He can and will claim no knowledge of such a transaction. There is no verifiable link directly to him. That is politics 101.


63 posted on 04/18/2014 4:40:32 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: Ann Archy
100%!!!
64 posted on 04/18/2014 4:43:31 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Beave Meister
Oh my, my, my....if this is true.

Nothing will happen.


65 posted on 04/18/2014 4:49:10 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: B4Ranch
I do hope they can prove he’s guilty as all get out.

You don't get it.

He works for "them".

66 posted on 04/18/2014 4:50:19 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: blueplum; hoosiermama; LucyT; maggief; null and void

Blueplum, great limerick!

All y’all ping to this post!

Make it go viral!


67 posted on 04/18/2014 4:54:19 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: WildHighlander57

ping


68 posted on 04/18/2014 4:58:53 AM PDT by alrea (So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. T. S. Eliot)
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To: skinkinthegrass

Was awa’ huntin’ ...

(Actually, have company visiting)


69 posted on 04/18/2014 4:58:54 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Beave Meister

Is it illeagal to take bribes if you are a democrat?


70 posted on 04/18/2014 5:01:20 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon)
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To: Beave Meister

Harry will, of course, have plausible deniability.


71 posted on 04/18/2014 5:02:37 AM PDT by griswold3 ("Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8".)
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To: Jim Robinson
A clip fromthe first link,interesting if nothing else.

Reid's office declined to comment, spokeswoman Kristen Orthman said Friday. To back his allegations, Johnson provided an email from Swallow that Johnson identified as key in supporting his claims. Johnson also granted access to at least several dozen other emails, two financial records, several photos and a transcript of about 60 pages of a secretly recorded April 2012 meeting Johnson had with Swallow, who was then Utah's chief deputy attorney general. The documents appear to support Johnson's story that in 2010 Swallow brokered a deal between Johnson and Richard M. Rawle, owner of the Provo-based payday-loan company Check City, to enlist Rawle to use his influence to get Reid involved on behalf of Johnson and I Works, Johnson's Internet marketing company that was under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission.

72 posted on 04/18/2014 5:05:41 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon)
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To: Jim Robinson
Another clip from the second link. Lots of smoke here. You gotta wonder where the fire is? What happended to the trail of the $250,000? That much money had to come from somewhere:

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. The Salt Lake Tribune continues, explaining how the bribe supposedly came to be in 2010: At the time, Johnson was largely known in Utah as a wealthy philanthropist who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to ferry supplies into Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake. [...] 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.

73 posted on 04/18/2014 5:11:31 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon)
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To: rodguy911

Maybe there needs to be a raid on Reid’s safe at their compound?
Would it contain cash or off shore bank account numbers?


74 posted on 04/18/2014 5:22:00 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: Beave Meister; RedMDer; Jim Robinson

Another list that needs contacted. Email forms are on their home pages

SENATE ETHICS COMMITTEE
Barbara Boxer, California, Chairman
Johnny Isakson, Georgia, Vice Chairman
Mark L. Pryor, Arkansas
Pat Roberts, Kansas
Sherrod Brown, Ohio
James E. Risch, Idaho


75 posted on 04/18/2014 5:41:48 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: Beave Meister
"Don't Go There Buddy!"


76 posted on 04/18/2014 5:54:23 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: hoosiermama; Beave Meister; Jim Robinson
Thank you!

SENATE ETHICS COMMITTEE

Barbara Boxer, California, Chairman
Johnny Isakson, Georgia, Vice Chairman
Mark L. Pryor, Arkansas
Pat Roberts, Kansas
Sherrod Brown, Ohio
James E. Risch, Idaho

77 posted on 04/18/2014 6:11:42 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: Jim Noble

I’m a Christian and I do believe in miracles.


78 posted on 04/18/2014 6:26:37 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
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To: Beave Meister
This article was published 1/12/13.
79 posted on 04/18/2014 6:51:28 AM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: griswold3
Harry will, of course, have plausible deniability.

He'll blame it on the Koch brothers.

80 posted on 04/18/2014 7:02:25 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (For every Ted Cruz we send to DC, I can endure 2-3 "unviable" candidates that beat incumbents.)
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