A deal in the desert for Sen. Reid? A bill he wrote could have affected the friend who sold the land. By Chuck Neubauer and Tom Hamburger, Times Staff Writers January 28, 2007 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...
