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A deal in the desert for Senator Reid? (Is Sen. Reid a Felon?)
LA Times ^ | Jan. 28, 2007 | Chuck Neubauer and Tom Hamburger

Posted on 08/05/2012 8:34:52 AM PDT by yoe

BULLHEAD CITY, ARIZ. — It's hard to buy undeveloped land in booming northern Arizona for $166 an acre. But now-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid effectively did just that when a longtime friend decided to sell property owned by the employee pension fund that he controlled.

In 2002, Reid (D-Nev.) paid $10,000 to a pension fund controlled by Clair Haycock, a Las Vegas lubricants distributor and his friend for 50 years. The payment gave the senator full control of a 160-acre parcel in Bullhead City that Reid and the pension fund had jointly owned. Reid's price for the equivalent of 60 acres of undeveloped desert was less than one-tenth of the value the assessor placed on it at the time.

Six months after the deal closed, Reid introduced legislation to address the plight of lubricants dealers who had their supplies disrupted by the decisions of big oil companies. It was an issue the Haycock family had brought to Reid's attention in 1994, according to a source familiar with the events.

If Reid were to sell the property for any of the various estimates of its value, his gain on the $10,000 investment could range from $50,000 to $290,000.

It is a potential violation of congressional ethics standards for a member to accept anything of value -- including a real estate discount -- from a person with interests before Congress.

(Excerpt) Read more at articles.latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: casino; cultureofcorruption; harrisonroberts; harryreid; holesinthedesert; landdeal; reid; scandals
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From 2007....people who live in glass houses should not throw stones.........is it true Reid has some connection with pedophilia?
1 posted on 08/05/2012 8:34:56 AM PDT by yoe
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To: yoe

I have heard from a friend He molested the horses at medieval times


2 posted on 08/05/2012 8:40:24 AM PDT by al baby (“If Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.”)
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To: yoe

An unnamed source says he beats his wife... that on top of being a crook.. Reid’s a typical dem .../s


3 posted on 08/05/2012 8:40:24 AM PDT by GOPJ (Political correctness is simply George Orwell's Newspeak by a non-threatening name. FR- Bernard Marx)
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To: yoe

The LA Slimes is just now figuring out that Reid has ties to the mob and is a crook?


4 posted on 08/05/2012 8:41:03 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ("Get that evil, foreign, muslim, usurping bastard out of MY White House!" FUBO GTFO!)
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To: yoe

Reid: He who acts like a sly criminal is indeed the same. Reid is a rotten communists greedy piece of crap.


5 posted on 08/05/2012 8:41:23 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: yoe

He’s a pedophile rapist. But, I can’t prove that conclusively.


6 posted on 08/05/2012 8:41:55 AM PDT by Cherokee Conservative (If a tree falls over in the woods, and then snaps back upright as a joke, do the squirrels laugh?)
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To: yoe
We all can rest assured that our esteemed Attorney Corporal,Eric Holder,will be all over this matter starting Monday morning.
7 posted on 08/05/2012 8:42:02 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Poor Barack.If He's Reelected,Think Of The Mess He'll Inherit!)
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To: al baby

only the males, as I heard it.


8 posted on 08/05/2012 8:43:54 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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is it true Reid has some connection with pedophilia?

It must be true.After all,"the word is out".

9 posted on 08/05/2012 8:44:11 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Word Is Out,Harry Reid's A Child Molester)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Article is from 2007.


10 posted on 08/05/2012 8:44:15 AM PDT by liberty or death
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To: yoe

It’s quite telling that he hasn’t passed a budget in over 1100 days, but brings up his frieds’ issues on demand. Reid is a crook, and Issa should place him next in line for hearings on this matter.


11 posted on 08/05/2012 8:48:55 AM PDT by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Now tell me, in one word, just whats going to happen to Mr Reid because of this action?.....Times up


12 posted on 08/05/2012 8:49:01 AM PDT by depenzz (As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.)
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To: yoe

Is he a democrat?

Then, it is a question that needs not be asked.


13 posted on 08/05/2012 8:50:11 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: yoe

Dirty Harry Reid: The Mafia's "Mr. Clean Face" on the Nevada Gaming Commission

Reid is so mobbed up that he's a walking, talking blackmail puppet. Axlerod could order him to strip naked on the Senate floor and tar and feather himself and he would do so instantly.

Read Freeper Fedora's excellent investigative thread to understand this human slimeball, and why he is willing to be a tool in this libel campaign: he has NO CHOICE. He is a Mafia and Chicago Rat Mob puppet.

Mr. Cleanface’s Dirty Laundry: Harry Reid’s Mob Money. (Original FReeper research 01/20/2006 by Fedora)

Dirty Harry Reid Got $1.1M In Shady NV Land Deals: one example of how it was done.

Dirty Harry Reid is so well known as a Mafia puppet, that he was featured in the movie Casino as "Harrison Roberts."


14 posted on 08/05/2012 8:50:30 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: yoe

I don’t know whether it’s true or not but that is what’s going around out there. Harry should ask the FBI to make his FBI file public so we can clear this up. We’ve seen over the years how politicians seem to develop a fondness for “interacting” with “young people” after they’ve been in Washington for too long.


15 posted on 08/05/2012 8:51:02 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The NRA did not create James "The Joker" Holmes. Harvey Weinstein's Hollywood did.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
It's going to be hard to get witnesses to come forward because he prefers necrophiliac pedophilia.
16 posted on 08/05/2012 8:54:30 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again.")
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To: yoe

I love in Bullhead City. This was a big story at the time. Of course, there has been development around the land in question paid for by you and me.


17 posted on 08/05/2012 8:55:37 AM PDT by Hildy (F"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser." - Socrates)
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To: Gay State Conservative

If there had been a REAL attorney general in 2007, or earlier, lots of these people would be in jail today. But for some reason neither party will go after their fellow corrupt politicians. I wonder why that is.


18 posted on 08/05/2012 8:58:52 AM PDT by Terry Mross (To my kin & former friends: Don't contact me if you still love obama- We got nothing to talk about)
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To: Hildy

Where exactly in Bullhead is this?

They say that the Rhodes development that was going on here in GV had HR connections.


19 posted on 08/05/2012 9:03:18 AM PDT by crz
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To: yoe
The American people are being robbed right before our eyes and there is nothing we can do about it except elect different robbers.
20 posted on 08/05/2012 9:03:32 AM PDT by oldbrowser (As long as Obama's records are sealed, any discussion of Romney's past is off limits.)
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