Exposing Harry Reid’s Dirty Laundry From Bribery , Lies, Mob Connections, And Stealing.
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Comment by Jim Campbell, Citizen Journalist, Oath Keeper and Patriot.
What is Harry Reid’s motivation behind the Bundy Ranchers?
It could have ended up like the infamous 1993 standoff with the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas, as over the past several days federal agents confronted 300 armed supporters of Nevada rancher Clive Bundy. But the feds blinked and backed down from the highly charged episode that was threatening to become a major headache for Senator Reid (D-Nevada).
The Bureau of Land Management had been rounding up Bundy’s cattle to cover the $1.1 million in “grazing fees” the government claims he owes over a 20-year period. The BLM, in concert with other federal agencies, planned to sell Bundy’s cattle in order to pay his debt.
Tea party activist Dr. Jerome Corsi saids he’s convinced Reid wants to facilitate construction of a $5-billion solar energy plant in the Nevada desert by a Chinese company.
“It was clear that Reid had an economic motivation here and that one of Reid’s senior advisors is now heading the BLM. So clearly this whole Democratic Party scam on renewable energy came to roost on Harry Reid and Obama’s doorstep,” he remarks.
And what of the argument that the feds were protecting the desert tortoise from Bundy’s cattle? “The federal government was at risk of being exposed to America with grabbing land supposedly to defend some stupid tortoise that the government would readily move if Harry Reid wanted to build a highway,” Corsi offers.
The New York Times bestselling author maintains the whole incident was a pretext for the fact that Reid was going to make millions with the conversion of thousands of acres of Nevada land into solar farms owned by the Chinese. Senator Reid’s press aide denied such accusations Monday, describing them as “conspiracy theories that are being pushed by right-wing media outlets.”
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Harry Reid’s Mob Connections
The connections between Harry Reid and the Mafia are quite numerous, but much of it is complicated. Ironically, Reid wants to build a $50 million dollar “Mob Museum” in Las Vegas, paid for by the taxpayers. (38) Indeed
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Reid inserted this money into the Stimulus Bill. Why does Reid want to
glorify a murderous bunch of thugs? Does he have fond memories of the
days when the Mob ran Las Vegas?Reid likes to claim he was responsible for chasing the Mob out of Las Vegas and portrays himself as some type of hero by claiming to have “cleaned up Las Vegas and ushered in a new era of responsibility.” (39)
The fact is that the Mob may not be as involved with the casinos
as they once were, but they are still heavily involved in Las Vegas and
Reid knows this. In fact, the mob has moved into sports betting.
Indeed, in a report requested by the U.S. Congress in 1999, the National
Gambling Commission estimated illegal sports betting generates around
$80 billion; half of that figure betted on football games. (40)I will outline the major links Reid has with the Mob; most of this is taken from a 4-part report by a mysterious author with the alias “Fedora,” all of which can be accessed in the footnotes.
What Former FBI Agent Joseph Yablonsky Says
Yablonsky was a FBI special agent in charge of the Las Vegas office for four years, until his retirement in 1983. When interviewed by journalist Del Tartikoff in 1996 Yablonsky was asked questions about many Las Vegas figures, including Reid:
Yablonsky: “Harry Reid is a mealy-mouth, and he was in their pocket just like the rest of
them. Of course, there’s certain things I know I can’t speak about because of Privacy Act considerations. But he’s a worm, and he was a congressman, back there, representing Mr. Greenspun, you now, trying to agitate in terms of my removal. But all you’ve got to do is read the pone he read when they had that phony Sinatra licensing.”
Tartikoff: “He wrote a poem?”
Yablonsky explained that, even though Frank Sinatra has lost a gaming license in the State of Nevada back in 1963 after evidence surfaced that mobster Sam Giancana was the real owner of the Cal-Nevada Lodge at Lake Tahoe and that Sinatra was merely a mob-friendly figurehead, Sinatra was back before the state Gaming Control Board in the late ‘70s, seeing a gaming license again.
“After this ridiculous hearing,” he said, “when Sinatra went up for licensing which had no adversary witnesses – McNeil-Lehrer played a half-hour of it on their program without even making a comment, it was so obvious. And when it came up to the Gaming Commission, which you know is [the top-tier of] a two-tiered system, Reid was the chairman, and he read this kiss-ass poem. He’s a faker.” (41)
So here you have the former head FBI agent in charge of investigating the mob in Las Vegas admitting Reid was “in their pocket” and relating how Reid voted to return to Sinatra his license to own gaming casinos
, even though the Gaming Commission had access to plenty of information indicating that Sinatra remained connected to the Mob.The Gaming Commission, led by Reid, dismissed strong evidence presented by FBI informants and other police reports. During the proceedings, Sinatra lied about his relationship with Mobster Willie Moretti, claiming he was just “a neighbor.” Sinatra denied making a pay-off to Lucky Luciano and acted like he didn’t know Sam Giancana. When Sinatra was questioned about a 1976 photo of himself with a group of prominent Gambino family mobsters, Sinatra claimed that he didn’t even know these men and that one of them wanted a picture with him and “before I realized what happened, there were approximately eight or nine men standing around me and several other snapshots were made.” (42)
This outrageous pack of lies was accepted by Reid who told the New York Times that he found Sinatra’s defense convincing! As New York Times reporter Robert Lindsey recounted:
All the old charges appeared to have been dispensed with. Yet, at least some observers said afterward that they felt there was less to the hearing than met the eye. Mr. Sinatra was treated with a kind of awe. He and his lawyer-manager, Milton Rudin, appeared to know many of the panel’s questions in advance. Board investigators seemed to base many of their conclusions solely on the singer’s own word; on some points, their fact-finding appeared to have been naively superficial. . .
Several times, when asked a potentially embarrassing question, Mr. Sinatra said that his memory failed him; he also gave some puzzling replies. In answering a question about the incident that led to the loss of his gaming license in 1963, he firmly denied knowing that the late Sam Giancana, a Chicago mobster, had visited the Cal Neva Lodge in violation of state laws barring gangsters from casinos
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But when asked if he had ever admitted knowing Mr. Giancana was there,
he answered, ”I might have said almost anything; if I said it, I don’t
believe I meant it because I never saw him.”. . . Whatever Mr. Sinatra’s
relationships might have been with the underworld, no matter whether he
had been treated unfairly by the press, as he claims, there appeared to
be a desire at the hearing to reinstate him, if for no other reason
than that he’s good for business. (43)After Reid and his fellow gaming commissioners awarded Sinatra gaming rights regarding Caesars Palace
, Caesars Palace donated at least $8,000 to Reid. (44)Reid has Four Sons who Work for a Law Firm that Defends Mobsters
All four of Reid’s sons have worked for Lionel Sawyer & Collins, a firm that also employs John Dawson, an expert in transferring assets offshore. It is believed that Dawson is involved with hiding the assets of convicted Mobster Rick Rizzolo, who was in trouble with the law for using his Crazy Horse bar to engage in illegal activities. Many people were beaten in this bar, some died, but those suing Rizzolo had a difficult time getting their money due to Rizzolo’s assets being hidden. John Dawson’s brother Kent was appointed to the Federal Bench by Senator Reid. And Kent Dawson, as Judge, has a history of giving out lenient sentences to mob connected people. Both Kent and John Dawson are heavy donors to Harry Reid. (49); (50); (51)
The Reno managing partner of Lionel Sawyer & Collins is Frederick Whittemore, whose clients have included casino
mogul Steve Wynn, identified in a Scotland Yard report as a front man
for the Genovese Mob family and connected to some high profile drug
dealers. (52)Moreover, Rory Reid and Mob attorney Jay Brown both acquired stock in American Enterprises, a company that operates the Table Mountain Indian casino
near Fresno, California and Brown became an agent for this company. A
short time later, Brown and other officers of this company gave Reid
campaign contributions. (53) Is it illegal for Harry Reid’s son to
invest in the gaming business along with Mob lawyers and then used their
connections to donate to Harry Reid? No, but it certainly raised the question of why so many mob-connected people want to keep Reid in power.Reid was Investigated for Accepting Mob Bribes as Head of the Nevada Gaming Commission
While Reid was cleared of this charge, lots of questions remain. Federal authorities were unable to prove Reid was being bribed. However, the main evidence for this was a tape recorded conversation involving Kansas City Mobster Joe Agosto. Unknown to Agosto, the FBI was taping him:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has received campaign contributions from people and political action committees linked to multiple companies suspected of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
The FCPA “generally prohibits the payment of bribes to foreign officials to assist in obtaining or retaining business,” according to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Coincidentally, when describing Charles and David Koch as “un-American” during a recent Senate floor speech, Reid referred to a Bloomberg news story in 2011 on a French subsidiary of Koch Industries.
“These are the same brothers whose company, according to a Bloomberg investigation, paid bribes and kickbacks to win contracts in Africa, India and the Middle East,” Reid said.
“I have no problem with people making a lot of money — but it’s what they do with their money,” Reid told Business Insider in a subsequent interview.
Koch officials in the U.S. told Bloomberg in 2011 they had no prior knowledge of the illegal activities linked to the subsidiary. More than a dozen people were fired as a result of a French investigation, a source told the Washington Examiner in 2011.
Reid’s mention of the French debacle on the Senate floor prompted some journalists to dig into the Senate Majority Leader’s contribution records with the Center for Responsive Politics.
The CRP records reveal that Reid has accepted campaign money from individuals and political action committees associated with 10 companies linked to FCPA investigations.
The contributions total $515,100 between 2009 and 2013.
Indicted Businessman Names Harry Reid as Alleged Recipient of Massive Bribe
A Utah businessman is rocking both state and national politics after claiming Utah Attorney General John Swallow helped him broker a deal with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to make a federal investigation into his company quietly disappear, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.
Jeremy Johnson was allegedly told that the price would be $600,000, and claims to have made an initial payment of $250,000 when he was slapped with a federal lawsuit. Now he says he wants his money back.
The Salt Lake Tribune points out that Johnson has no way of knowing whether the funds actually made it to Reid, even if he did make a massive payment to Reid’s alleged intermediary.
The Salt Lake Tribune continues, explaining how the bribe supposedly came to be in 2010:
At the time, Johnson was largely known in Utah as a wealthy philanthropist who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to ferry supplies into Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake.
Then, with the FTC investigation continuing, Johnson said Swallow suggested Reid could make problems with regulators go away — for a price.
“I said, ‘OK, what do I need to do?’ He’s like, ‘OK, it costs money,’ ” Johnson said, who claimed Swallow was adamant he make a deal.
“I think he told me, ‘Richard Rawle has a connection with Harry Reid,’ ” Johnson said.
He said Swallow at first wanted $2 million to enlist Reid’s help. But [his company] I Works was no longer profitable and he did not have the money, Johnson said, so they eventually agreed on $300,000 upfront and $300,000 later.
Swallow put Johnson in contact with Rawle, whose company has operations in Nevada…
Rawle, who died of cancer last month, had contributed to Reid’s 2010 re-election bid and
later bragged to Johnson that the Nevada Democrat helped him delay new federal payday-loan regulations, Johnson said.“Richard [Rawle] is traveling to LV tomorrow and will be able to contact this person, who he has a very good relationship with. He needs a brief narrative of what is going on and what you want to happen. I don’t know the cost, but it probably won’t be cheap.”
On Oct. 7, Johnson emailed Rawle, insisting there was “rock solid proof” the FTC allegations against I Works were false. “We will do whatever it take[s] to get Senator Reid on our side and hopefully you can help make it happen. Let me know.”
Johnson spent 96 days in jail and has released a number of emails and statements seemingly corroborating parts of his story. However, Swallow insists that Johnson is making “false and defamatory accusations” and that any role he may have played was merely for lobbying purposes.
“There’s nothing wrong with that,” Swallow stated. “As long as I’m not interfering with a government agency as a government official, there’s nothing wrong with me being involved.”
But Johnson told a judge he’s felt guilty about the situation from the start: “The truth is the worst thing I think I’ve done was I paid money knowing it was going to influence Harry Reid…So I’ve felt all along that I’ve committed bribery of some sort there.”
Though the connection to Reid remains unverified, some are remembering how Reid claimed on the Senate floor that Mitt Romney hadn’t paid his taxes for ten years based on far less evidence.
A Las Vegas Review-Journal blog jokes about how Reid might address the situation, if looking in from the outside:
I have a “source” that says that Harry Reid takes bribes all the time. In fact, if you want anything done out of his office, you must come with a suitcase of cash just to get an audience. That’s how he’s gotten so rich on a senator’s salary. He stashes his money in an offshore bank accountSenator Harry Reid’s office has declined to comment
Jeremy Johnson claims Harry Reid took $1m from Full Tilt to change poker stance
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