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It reads like a cast of characters for a detective film noir: powerful politicians, shady businessmen, high-ranking law officers and an idealistic, persistent prosecutor. The plot includes allegations of corruption, cover-ups and the naked exercise of power. Let's title this movie "Rogue Runner" — only this story is not fiction. It's the code name Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings has given the sprawling probe he has spun off from the investigation that ensnared former Utah Attorneys General Mark Shurtleff and John Swallow. And now, in a dramatic twist, Rawlings wants a state grand jury this summer to hear the evidence...

Where Reid's Money Came From By Daxton Brown daxtonbrown@yahoo.com In the Sharron Angle vs Reid debate on October 14th, Angle asked Senator reid how he was able to accumulate so much wealth on a politicians salary. One would suppose that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is a fairly important person and many in the media would already have answers to this question. However, other than his self-serving autobiography, the only biography of Reid is the one I have written, titled HARRY, Money Mob & Influence In Harry Reid’s Nevada. The absence of reporting on Reid’s background is the usual...

Don Williams, the campaign manager for Harry Reid from 1965 to 1974 will reveal on Steve Wark's AM 670 radio show (tomorrow, August 24th at 7:00am pst) how he picked up illegal cash from Joe Conforte at the Mustang Ranch Brothel on two campaigns. The reason this is important is because there are a number of other leads now working through the system regarding a history of Reid taking money - Williams provides a polygraphed verifiable anchor point to the other stories. Once on the take, always on the take.

HARRY: Money, Mob & Influence EXCERPT FROM Chapter 6 The Gaming Commission Exclusive To Free Republic After Reid’s early political career is interrupted by a failed Senate run in 1974, his next epic quest comes in 1977 when he was chosen by then Gov. O'Callaghan to run the Nevada Gaming Commission.  Did Reid near singlehandedly run the mob out of Vegas as the cultivated myth seems to imply?  Reid’s own account of his selection to chair the Commission sheds some light:   I woke today after the mayoral election a 35-year-old has been. I assumed that I was finished with...