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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2012 => Topic started by: RobJohnson on August 15, 2012, 08:23:51 PM
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More (http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/314025/how-did-harry-reid-get-rich-betsy-woodruff)
Try this thought experiment. Imagine that someone grows up in poverty, works his way through law school by holding the night shift as a Capitol Hill policeman, and spends all but two years of his career as a public servant. Now imagine that this person’s current salary — and he’s at the top of his game — is $193,400. You probably wouldn’t expect him to have millions in stocks, bonds, and real estate.
But, surprise, he does, if he’s our Senate majority leader, whose net worth is between 3 and 10 million dollars, according to OpenSecrets.org. When Harry Reid entered the Nevada legislature in 1982, his net worth was listed as between $1 million and $1.5 million “or more,†according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. So, since inquiring minds inquire, let’s try to figure out how Reid’s career in public service ended up being so lucrative. He hasn’t released his tax returns, which makes this an imperfect science, but looking at a few of his investments helps to show how he amassed his wealth.
In 2004, the senator made $700,000 off a land deal that was, to say the least, unorthodox. It started in 1998 when he bought a parcel of land with attorney Jay Brown, a close friend whose name has surfaced multiple times in organized-crime investigations and whom one retired FBI agent described as “always a person of interest.†Three years after the purchase, Reid transferred his portion of the property to Patrick Lane LLC, a holding company Brown controlled. But Reid kept putting the property on his financial disclosures, and when the company sold it in 2004, he profited from the deal — a deal on land that he didn’t technically own and that had nearly tripled in value in six years.
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How Did Harry Reid Get Rich?
Selling boys to other pederasts?
Taking bribes when he was head of the Nevada Gaming commission?
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I expect he got rich the same way most other good Dhimmi'Rats do: by being an utterly ruthless shakedown artist.
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It doesn't matter how Harry Reid got rich. Nothing will ever be done to expose his criminal activity to the general public and he will never see handcuffs, the inside of a courtroom, or a prison cell.
But Martha Stewart, now there's a woman who had to be brought to justice. Her high crimes could not be ignored.
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It doesn't matter how Harry Reid got rich. Nothing will ever be done to expose his criminal activity to the general public and he will never see handcuffs, the inside of a courtroom, or a prison cell.
But Martha Stewart, now there's a woman who had to be brought to justice. Her high crimes could not be ignored.
Good points.
The word is out that Harry is rich.
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Good points.
The word is out that Harry is rich abuses little boys in sick, basement studio Pedo porn.
Fixt. :puke:
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He made it the old fashioned way.....he stole it.
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Imagine that someone grows up in poverty, works his way through law school by holding the night shift as a Capitol Hill policeman, and spends all but two years of his career as a public servant.
When Harry Reid entered the Nevada legislature in 1982, his net worth was listed as between $1 million and $1.5 million “or more,†according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
How did he make between $1 million and $1.5 million “or more,†in 2 yrs ? as a Cop ?
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How did he make between $1 million and $1.5 million “or more,†in 2 yrs ? as a Cop ?
Shake downs for the mob? Taking "protection money" from whores, bookies and drug dealers, and other, less nefarious business entities?
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I heard it was through inside deals, influence peddling, and selling favors...
:evillaugh: