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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Well, Wouldn’t you do that for your son? ;-\
Resume’ enhancement
With Harry running in 2016...who is his Republican challenger in Nev?
Throw the dried up $h!t pile in prison...!
If Reid was a Republican ........news and scandals 24/7.
Reid as a democrat .... crickets.
Will the shriveled up old hag go to jail?
BTTT !
Can we have our time with him on the “exercise machine” now?
Reid and sons are a package. If you want to talk to Reid, you write his sons a six-figure check.
Culture of corruption
Why hasn’t Reid been indicted? Oh, yeah, Eric Holder is Attorney Coporal.
Jim, clearly the people who elect Reid time after time don’t give a darn what he does, criminal or otherwise, so long as he brings in federal dollars to their state. He is part of the oligarchy and will not be prosecuted for anything ... and he’s a Mormon in good standing (active Temple Recommend), so that angle is mute, also.
Wow!
As you all know, I wrote Harry Reid’s only biography. I am currently finishing a massive update and was ready to put it to bed but I see I need one more chapter. The corruption level is so high I believe it sets new records. Additions cover Utah bribes, the billion dollar energy scams with Buffett and Musk, Rory’s solar games, Bundy Ranch and much much more.
The new edition will be out in a few weeks. Here’s the old link, but wait till the new edition is out if you want a copy.
http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php
“With Harry running in 2016...who is his Republican challenger in Nev?”
It will likely be Bob Beers, one of our kind. It appears Sandoval won’t run. Wayne Allen Root dropped out. The other RINO suspects seem adverse to a run.
Bump
Beers will have to step up his game to beat Reid.
“Beers will have to step up his game to beat Reid.”
Yes he does. On his side is the shear Himalayan mountain of Reid corruption. This Breitbart article and others popping up show me that there is a groundswell of reporters going after Reid, something that hasn’t happened before. And this time around my book may actually get some traction, it is an encyclopedia of corruption.
And the reason Reid’s activities are not being investigated by the REPUBLICAN senate is ...
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