Makes you wonder if Harry Reid was behind the initial revelations of Jack Abramoff's lucrative representation of the Indian tribes. He gets a twofer - the tribes' lobbying activities are crippled, which helps his Vegas mob patrons, and he pins a scandal on the Republicans to take the heat off himself. With his connections, it would have been easy to set up a middleman to feed the Washington Post all the dirt on Abramoff and the tribes.
Excellent work! Thank you.
Bump
Link to Part 1 HERE
Reid is about as dirty as they come.
Well done, sir. Thank you.
Ping in response to your question about Reid's son from the other thread--thanks for mentioning that.
Generally very good work with your research. I agree that the Reid family is as crooked as they come.
However, that being said, I don't necessarily agree with your painting Rory Reid, acting on behalf of Lady Luck, in doing anything particularly shady with respect to signing the settlement with FinCEN for the 25 unfiled currency transaction reporting forms. Most casino companies that have run into this problem (i.e. failure to file the forms) typically settle their fines with the Federal government for much less than the full penalty (e.g. MGM MIRAGE back in 2003 and Station Casinos in 2003 or 2004--I can't quite remember off the top of my head). It would only make sense that as legal counsel for Lady Luck, Rory would have been heavily involved the settlement--it's not an uncommon thing for any casino's legal counsel to do. It doesn't mean the casinos that run into this problem are intentionally trying to break the law. Usually it means that someone wasn't properly supervising their Reg. 6A Compliance Specialist whose job it is to ensure that these CTRs are filed correctly. I'm not saying that the casinos don't break the law if they fail to follow it, but I'm just saying that this particular point you are making usually doesn't originate due to an intention to break the law.
But Harry is a member in good standing, how could this be.
If Goodman were to run, what role might the Reids play in his campaign? Under the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 Senator Harry Reid and anyone who qualifies as his “agent” is theoretically ineligible to raise soft money for candidates. However after Rory Reid became Clark County Commissioner, he asked the Federal Election Commission to declare him unrestrained by this restriction on his father, arguing that he is not legally a fundraising agent of his father.
Four public interest groups filed objections to Reid’s request, but in June 2003 the FEC found in Reid’s favor. The FEC ruled that just being Senator Reid’s son and having served as Nevada Democratic Party Chairman in the past does not give County Commissioner Reid any present authority as Senator Reid’s fundraising agent, and therefore Rory is free to raise funds for the Nevada Democratic Party as long as he raises them on his own authority as a Clark County official rather than on his father’s authority.
Republican response to this ruling was divided, with some unconcerned, some anticipating further legal clarification from future rulings, and others complaining, “To have a county commissioner go before properties on the Strip and ask for unlimited soft money for the state Democratic Party when his father is at the top of the ticket sends a message.”
Ponder this: It was the kind of federal legislation that slips under the radar. The name alone made the eyes glaze over: "The Clark County Conservation of Public Land and Natural Resources Act of 2002." In a welter of technical jargon, it dealt with boundary shifts, land trades and other arcane matters — all in Nevada.
As he introduced it, Nevada's senior senator, Democrat Harry Reid, assured colleagues that his bill was a bipartisan measure to protect the environment and help the economy in America's fastest-growing state......... What Sen Reid did not explain was that the bill promised a cavalcade of benefits to real estate developers, corporations and local institutions that were paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in lobbying fees to his sons' and son-in-law's firms, federal lobbyist reports show.
The IRS is looking into phony trusts like these. They need to nail Reid's collusion with businesses---particularly officers of publicly-held companies---in the scheme that might include corporations' misusing corporate reserve accounts, concealing losses, inflating asset values and improperly accounting for transactions, as well as deferring profits into reserve accounts, improperly shifting capital funding to other projects to hide illegal payments to Reid, and might have employed money laundering schemes to siphon money into Reid's campaign accounts, in order to evade the IRS, SEC, FEC and US banking laws. The "trust" itself should be looked at for excessive "legal fees" and "admin fees" which are classic money laundering schemes.
Anyone with concerns should contact the SEC here: EMAIL enforcement @SEC.gov.
As one FReepers posted: Reid's comments about "going upstairs" to look at the FBI files on a Judge---to see why they had been filibustered---are chilling. Reid is a crook with a "God" complex. He and his ilk are not to be trusted. As a Dumbocrat, depend on Reid to use the well-rehearsed "victim" routine.
Victimization is a Dim's basic belief by which they blame and find others responsible for their own personal failures, then expect taxpayers, deep-pocketed individuals, the government, or the courts to bail them out.
For a Dim, it feels good to be in the throes of "victimization" and either A) causing victims, B) concocting victims, C) playing victim, D) commiserating over victims, E) subsidizing victims, and, F)creating another class of victims to bleed over.
Research Bump!
Nice work, thanks.
This is what differenciates FR from the rest of the sites.
wowowowowow, fedora...good stuff
Wonderful research, Fedora!