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A federal appeals court on Monday upheld the conviction of a former Nevada lobbyist accused of making illegal campaign contributions to Sen. Harry Reid's 2010 reelection campaign. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected F. Harvey Whittemore's contention that the evidence presented at trial was insufficient to convict him. Prosecutors say Whittemore promised to raise money for Reid in 2007 and distributed $145,000 to 17 relatives and employees, each of whom then made the maximum contribution of $4,600 to Reid's campaign and kept $400.

|Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday he would like President Barack Obama to wait for Congress to pass legislation funding the government before he takes executive action giving deportation relief to undocumented immigrants. “The president said he is going to do the executive action,” the Nevada Democrat said heading in to a Democratic lunch. “The question is when. It’s up to him. I’d like to get the finances of this country out of the way before he does it. But it’s up to him.” Reid said the president was aware of his preference.

We already knew that Harry Reid was a pretty generous grandpa -- what with his paying his granddaughter $17,000 in campaign funds, purportedly for gifts for his donors. But now we're learning that he was even more generous than we knew: He actually paid "Ryan Elisabeth" (Reid) almost twice that amount -- $31,000. Now you'd think a guy who's just trying to be nice to his granddaughter wouldn't be so testy when the press asks him about it, but you'd be wrong: Harry Reid Gets Testy With Reporter Asking About FEC Probe: "Read My Statement"

Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch fired back at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Friday in a rare public rebuke after the Democrat used the Senate floor to accuse them of trying to "buy the country.