Posted on 03/26/2015 8:54:20 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
HARRY REID PRESSURED DHS TO EXPEDITE $115 MILLION FOREIGN INVESTORS EB-5 VISA DEAL CRITICAL TO SON’S CASINO CLIENT
Details in this week’s Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General’s report reveal only part of the story behind Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) abuse of his political office in 2012 and 2013. Through a brazen intervention, Reid ultimately forced the Department of Homeland Security to bend to his will in a way that benefited his political allies and family.
The report concluded that Reid pressured a compliant DHS official to override normal departmental procedures and rush through 230 EB-5 foreign visa applications, thereby freeing up $115 million the applicants invested in the SLS Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The report did not, however, reveal the now confirmed fact that the owner of that casino project had hired Reid’s son, Rory Reid, to provide legal representation for the project.
“At the request of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, [current DHS Deputy Secretary Alejandro] Mayorkas intervened to allow expedited review of investor petitions involved in funding a Las Vegas hotel and casino [SLS], notwithstanding the career staff’s original decision not to do so,” the report found.
“The career staff noted that the purported urgency was of the applicant’s [SLS’s] own making and that the decision to expedite fell outside EB-5 program guidelines,” the report stated.
“Nevertheless,” the report concluded, “Mr. Mayorkas pressured staff to expedite the review. He also took the extraordinary step of requiring staff to brief Senator Reid’s staff on a weekly basis for several months.”
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“If Reid was a Republican ........news and scandals 24/7.
Reid as a democrat .... ‘dead’ crickets.”
You nailed it. If Reid was a Republican, ABCNNBCBS and the left wing fish wrap liars like the Ny Slimes, LaSlimes, and the Compost would be screaming 24/7.
When it is one of their criminals, we hear the sound of ‘dead’ crickets.
Stay safe and please put your new book on Amazon’s Kindle.
I prefer Kindle for my reference type of ‘books’.
“”230 EB-5 foreign visa applications””
Does anyone know what “foreigners” were so important to the deal - what country was involved? What positions were to be filled at the new casino?
Didn’t he just win reelection? This is how the Chicago Machine does it. All the bad news comes out post-election and then it’s used to keep the official heeling to the Machine.
In a sane world, he’d be in jail. I wonder how long it will be, if ever, until this scandal makes it into the MSM.
FBI Files maybe?
I hear the X Files is coming back.
The FBI files never left primetime politics.
Will do. It is just a lot of work to get done.
Hard work but good work.
Like life.
what sleaze!!!! what shameless rip off artists! the whole family
With Reids retirement, your new book might be very handy for an honest AG in a couple of years.
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