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epicsurvivorFR contributor, Phsstpok responded to the earlier post with an interesting take on the growing scandal which threatens to take down the Senate Minority Leader.
Eveyone is still concentrating on the wrong thing, the “he didn’t own it” portion of this scandal. That’s sleazy and clearly was done to avoid tax and other liabilities, which is incredibly hypocritical, but probably technically legal (unless they were really dumb in how they did it).
The meat of this scandal is how Reid acquired this particular property through his misconduct in office and abuse of his position in the government. His (mobbed up) partners acquired a stretch of worthless desert land, quite possibly through illegal transactions (there’s even rumor of a murder of a reluctant owner of one parcel). They then got Reid to have that portion of land designated as environmentally important. Further he was instrumental in engineering a complicated land swap of this worthless but “environmentally important” land for valuable land in booming Las Vegas. When that swap was accomplished, lo and behold, Harry ended up with a key parcel of land at a strategic location, with the only partner who has been named owning the adjoining parcel. Next to that was yet another strip of federally controlled land that was critical to their plans. Harry managed to get that thrown in by the Feds, as well.
Further distorting and abusing the system his sons then went to work through their positions on local boards and commissions. They pushed through, over the objections of the local government, rezoning of the land from strictly residential to commercial, which tripled the value of Harry’s land and allowed them to sell it to a developer for building a shopping mall. Voila, Harry hit the jackpot in Vegas.
It’s about the abuse of office, not the minor details on a title. They want to concentrate everyone on that so that they can then discredit that one piece of the puzzle and hope that no one will then pursue the rest of it.
Great post phsstok. Thanks for your analysis. And, since the sex-obsessed agenda media will not take their collective noses out of Foley’s ass long enough to actually report the news, I thank you for your good work
related link from American Thinker
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Remember how the media treated the people that were actually with Kerry in Viet Nam and objected to his nuanced view of what happened (and how he got his purple hearts) when they spoke out? I will go out on a limb here and use my mad psychic skills to project that this will be completely overlooked, glossed over, and treated as partisan hysteria.
Good grief. Was the name of the land deal Rock Ridge?
Woohooo! The FedEx man has arrived with a replacement for some malfunctioning equipment, and I no longer have too much time on my hands and can return to work (as Nuke breathes a sigh of relief).
See ya soon.