« Pyongyang and the Peanut | Main | Warner »

October 11, 2006

Corruption on the Left

In an interesting story, Sen. Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) hung up on the AP after being asked some tough questions about a corrupt looking business deal.  Here's the link and the first part of the story.  Read the whole thing and you be the judge.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid collected a $1.1 million windfall on a Las Vegas land sale even though he hadn't personally owned the property for three years, property deeds show.

In the process, Reid did not disclose to Congress an earlier sale in which he transferred his land to a company created by a friend and took a financial stake in that company, according to records and interviews.

The Nevada Democrat's deal was engineered by Jay Brown, a longtime friend and former casino lawyer whose name surfaced in a major political bribery trial this summer and in other prior organized crime investigations. He's never been charged with wrongdoing - except for a 1981 federal securities complaint that was settled out of court.

Posted by Dustin Adams at 09:58 PM | Permalink

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341c046f53ef00e550434c668833

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Corruption on the Left: