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To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (61110)	1/13/2013 11:32:36 AM
From: greatplains_guy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 71588

Yet Another Scandal for Harry Reid? Carol Platt Liebau New questions are being asked about the ethics of Sen. Harry Reid; a Utah businessman is alleging that his state's attorney general demanded $600,000 as a bribe to Reid in exchange for dismissal of a federal investigation(http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home3/55598812-200/johnson-swallow-rawle-attorney.html.csp). Certainly the allegations could be false, but it's worth noting this isn't the first time Reid's name has come up in connection with some pretty shady propositions. Remember the lucrative, underpriced land deal? Or the green energy conflict? There's so much there, pithily summed up by Investors Business Daily(http://news.investors.com/politics-andrew-malcolm/080312-620870-harry-reid-scandal-and-mitt-romney-story.htm?p=full) as follows: . . .shadowy years he ran the Nevada Gaming Commission, through his public embarrassment over the Los Angeles Times investigation into his son and son-in-law's Washington lobbying activities,the ethics investigation into the free tickets Reid happily accepted to boxing matches and the successful land development deal that ended up netting Reid $1 million when he sold it, in an amazing coincidence, to a friend and it became a shopping center. As a general matter, it's right to wait until serious allegations are actually substantiated before repeating them. But in the case of Harry Reid, an exception is entirely warranted. townhall.com