Wow. And this little detail of a "handshake" sale is quite disturbing. If there really was zero paperwork on this, there definitely is a fraud somewhere. Did they make public applications as though the land were no longer Reid's, when in reality it was? This is a very suspicious "no paper trail." Sounds to me they wanted to hide everything - both Reid's ownership and the sale they claim occurred. But then of course he pockets the profit at the end. This "phantom sale" didn't happen by accident, they did it this way for an improper reason.
Putting this transaction on paper would have been absolutely routine and easy to do.
My guess is they wanted several parsels of land to be in one "ownership package" in order to get zoneing for both Harry and the Mafia lawyers property, and sell parsels of land as one deal through the LLC company.
I wonder who bought the property? I wonder if they knew Dirty Harry was getting the cash? I wonder if they inflated the price to buy Harry for some other "Pay to Play" deal?