Harry Reid and Hillary Clinton hate those damn illegal aliens from Mexico - Deport the Bastards - Fine every employer - Lock them Up - Kick Them Out - Hates Illegal Aliens the Wetback Bastards - Circa 1993 - Crime Maladies Asylum Birthright Citizenship Illegal Aliens Harry Reid and Democrats hate their guts Welfare Free medical Freeloaders Scam Artists

1993. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) stood before the Senate in September to bolster his Immigration Stabilization Act just seven months after two CIA agents were killed at Langley headquarters by Pakistani illegal aliens and six months after the first World Trade Center bombing perpetrated by a group of Islamic terrorists that included illegals. Reid was on a mission to put an end to the immigration problem that was plaguing the United States. Some may say, after hearing his words, that he sounded exactly like Donald Trump does today.

It has been Trump’s strong stance on fixing a completely shattered immigration system that has garnered him the most criticism. Illegal aliens pour into this country every day, mostly from Mexico, and with that bring financial burdens to American cities, not to mention crime and other maladies. The United States can’t support such a system for much longer.

At one time, Harry Reid believed that, too. As he spoke from the Senate floor 23 years ago, Reid made his case before President Bill Clinton to end the “insane” birthright citizenship, clamp down on asylum seekers, like those who bombed the WTC, and finally, the deportation of criminal aliens.

Below are several quotes from this speech and press releases related to the bill. His words are virtually indistinguishable from Donald Trump's:

“Our federal wallet is stretched to the limit by illegal aliens getting welfare, food stamps, medical care and other benefits often without paying any taxes. Safeguards like welfare and free medical care are in place to boost Americans in need of short-term assistance. These programs were not meant to entice freeloaders and scam artists from around the world.”

“We admit the equivalent of a major city without any assessment of whether these newcomers are likely to be contributing members of our society. Only a tiny fraction of those admitted each year enter because they have skills and abilities that will benefit our country. The rest come merely because they happen to be relatives of other recent immigrants. The result of this so-called policy is that there is now a backlog of almost 3 1/2 million people--the population of a city the size of Los Angeles--who have a claim to immigrate to the United States for no other reason than they are somebody's relative. Is this really a way to run immigration policy?”

“The illegal alien population is growing by more than a quarter of a million people a year, we think, with the best statistics we have. Yet we are doing almost nothing to encourage these people to go home or even to deter them from coming here in the first place. In many parts of the country we actually make it easy to be an illegal alien.”

“If making it easy to be an illegal alien is not enough, how about offering a reward for being an illegal immigrant? No sane country would do that, right? Guess again. If you break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. citizenship and guarantee full access to all public and social services this society provides. And that is a lot of services. Is it any wonder that two-thirds of the babies born at taxpayer expense in county-run hospitals in Los Angeles are born to illegal alien mothers?”

“I wish the statements I have been making were some kind of a nightmare or dream, an aberration. But they are true. But they do not stop. Not only do we admit more than these 100,000 people each year without knowing who they are or why they came, we actually give them all the documents they need to simply disappear into our society.”

“It is fair to say that this country does not have a policy but, rather, an inchoate and often incomprehensible hodgepodge of statutes, regulations and procedures. In other words, what we have is a mess that is only likely to get worse unless we demonstrate some courage legislatively.”

“The most important question we need to ask is whether our children and grandchildren will be better off as a result of this staggering increase in population. Will our children and grandchildren enjoy the same quality of life as we have had? Will they have the same opportunities, the same freedom of movement and mobility? Can the melting pot absorb and absorb and assimilate and assimilate people arriving at this rate? Or will we become increasingly isolated and alienated from one another?”

If this were turned into a game of “Who said it: Donald Trump or Harry Reid?” most would choose Trump every time.

And what’s worse, in 1993, the number of illegal aliens Reid was complaining about were a fraction of the illegal alien population today. But when Trump warns of the dangers of illegal immigration, the Democrats of today punch back that our country was founded as a nation of immigrants. Reid had an answer for that back then, too:

“Proponents of the status quo argue that any attempt to reform our Nation's immigration policies is an affront to our immigration tradition. It is an argument I hear over and over each time we attempt to have meaningful debate about U.S. immigration policy.

“From 1820 until 1965, a period encompassing most of the history of this Nation, the United States admitted an average of 300,000 immigrants a year… we are now resettling between 1.2 million and 1.5 million newcomers every year--about the size of the State of Nevada, every year. There is nothing traditional or rational, for that matter, about attempting to absorb the population of Nevada every year, year in and year out.”

Reid’s words were correct for that time and still stand true today. That’s not something you’ll read very often on TruthRevolt, but Reid was right on this one!

So, what’s changed? 

The only conclusion is that the Democrats saw how many new voters were coming into the country who could be spellbound by all of this free stuff and keep them in office forever.

 And what a great tradeoff it is: millions of Democratic voters in exchange for rape, murder, drunk driving accidents, and a heavy financial burden on the rest of us legal citizens.

Once upon a time, common sense reigned supreme, even in our political system.  Sure, politicians would argue over subsidies and entitlements and other fiscal issues. But before our body politic was hijacked by a cartel of special interests who worship the pagan gods of political correctness and selfish parochial desires, both progressives and conservatives had a sense of justice and fairness as it relates to illegal immigration.

On January 25, 1993, two CIA agents were shot and killed outside of the Langley headquarters by a Pakistani illegal alien. A month later, a group of Islamic terrorists, that included several illegal aliens, executed the first bombing attack on the World Trade Center.  Even though these events were not prototypical of the predominant illegal immigration problems we experienced from the southern border, none other than Harry Reid wasted no time in demanding comprehensive enforcement against all illegal immigration.

Reid introduced a bill on Aug. 4, 1993, the Immigration Stabilization Act of 1993 (S.1351), which would have ended birthright citizenship (an idea he called “insane”), clamped down on asylum seekers (very pertinent to World Trade Center bombing), expanded deportation of criminal aliens, increased penalties on re-entries and visa fraud, and excluded all legal immigrants from admission who “cannot demonstrably support themselves without public or private assistance.”

In a press release unveiling the bill, Reid noted the following:

"Our borders have overflowed with illegal immigrants placing tremendous burdens on our criminal justice system, schools and social programs. The Immigration and Naturalization Service needs the ability to step up enforcement. "Our federal wallet is stretched to the limit by illegal aliens getting welfare, food stamps, medical care and other benefits often without paying any taxes. "Safeguards like welfare and free medical care are in place to boost Americans in need of short-term assistance. These programs were not meant to entice freeloaders and scam artists from around the world.”

He added this Trumpesque line:

"Even worse, Americans have seen heinous crimes committed by individuals who are here illegally."

Remember, this is at a time when the illegal alien population was just 3-4 million, and the fiscal and criminal cost incurred by this country was a fraction of what it is today.

On September 20, Reid delivered a riveting speech on the Senate floor covering every talking point Jeff Sessions, Steve King, and Donald Trump have ever mentioned – and then some.  [Congressional Record, page s11999]  His speech was prophetic and ahead of its time, warning of the ill effects of both illegal immigration and unbridled legal immigration on our criminal justice system, education, hospitals, welfare, and culture.  Reid cited an observation from Bob Dole that “wherever he travels around the country, he is confronted with concern about the direction of the policy of immigration as it relates to the United States.”  And Reid added, “these are not racist people who are raising this issue.”

Fast-forward 22 years later, and the cost and danger to our society from illegal immigration are incalculable – far beyond Reid’s worst nightmares in 1993.

Later in the year, Reid added an amendment to the 1993-94 crime bill, co-sponsored by such liberal luminaries as Sens. Bob Graham (D-FL) and Alan Simpson, (R-WY), that closed all sorts of loopholes dealing with criminal aliens and mandated more cooperation between local and federal law enforcement.

Fast-forward 22 years later, and the cost and danger to our society from illegal immigration are incalculable – far beyond Reid’s worst nightmares in 1993. We have experienced an endless slew of murders, rapes, and drunk driving incidents from an infinite flow of illegal immigrants, culminating with the two murders over the weekend.  These murders are the direct result of not only the political disregard for immigration enforcement, but the official and relentless dismantling of interior enforcement and cooperation between state and local law enforcement.

Instead of Democrats and Republicans coming together to immediately address this national emergency, not a single GOP leader will fight against sanctuary cities and Obama’s abolishing of Secure Communities and the 287g program.  In fact, John Boehner spent Independence Day overseas promoting more amnesty and the very policies that have encouraged this calamity in the first place.  Harry Reid himself was forced to have an ideological sex change operation because of the special interests that have taken over his party.

modern-day Republicans cannot even hold the ground held by the Democrat leader on immigration just one generation ago.

Stand back and behold just how corrosive and destructive the cult of political correctness and special interests politics can be to the very existence of a nation and its sovereignty.  It would probably take a PHD in math to calculate the cost of illegal immigration to this nation – both tangibly and intangibly – since Reid sounded a frenetic alarm 22 years ago.  Yet, modern-day Republicans cannot even hold the ground held by the Democrat leader on immigration just one generation ago.

Instead of wetting their pants over Donald Trump, the short-sighted and capricious political class would be wise to study Harry Reid’s speech from 1993.

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The United States has failed people, you just don't know it yet.

The borders are being drawn now for a free America so take a picture of your mother because this Civil War will last decades, not like Abe's war of long ago. 

Barack Obama will claim Marshall Law before 2016 is done and his intimates like Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Bill De Blasio, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Bill Clinton, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Susan Rice and a thousand others will ring the prison bells for your dinner.

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Mr. Cleanface’s Dirty Laundry: Harry Reid’s Mob Money

By Fedora

“I’ve gotta Cleanface in my pocket,” boasted Kansas City Mafia representative Joe Agosto, unaware the FBI was monitoring his conversation (reproduced loosely in the movie Casino).

FBI surveillance of Mafia gambling operations in Las Vegas in the late 1970s picked up Agosto making references to an individual he codenamed “Mr. Cleanface” and “Mr. Gillette”. Agosto’s conversations mentioned Mr. Cleanface was close to Nevada Governor-Elect Robert List. 

After turning state’s evidence, Agosto claimed that Mr. Cleanface was Harry Reid, then chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission and sporting a cleanshaven, boyish look. Agosto’s claims were echoed by former Tropicana Hotel part-owner Deil Gustafson, who testified about Reid’s relationship to Tropicana attorney Jay H. Brown.

Agosto’s testimony led to the conviction of several top Midwestern Mafia bosses, but failed to touch Reid. When questioned after Agosto’s surveillance became public knowledge in mid-1979, Reid admitted to being the subject of the “Mr. Cleanface” references, but denied being paid for any favors. The Justice Department investigated whether Mafia funds had been funneled to Reid through Brown and Mafia attorney Oscar Goodman. A five-month investigation cleared Reid, and 25 years later, Reid is attacking political opponents with slogans like “If we can beat mob, we can fight DeLay-style politics”, and claiming in the process that he “kick[ed] the mob out of Las Vegas in the 1970s”.

Did Harry Reid really kick the mob out of Las Vegas in the 1970s, as he claims? Or was he in the Mafia’s pocket, as Joe Agosto claimed? What are the real facts about Reid’s relationship to organized criminal elements in the gambling industry? Is he Mr. Cleanface, or Mr. Dirty Laundry?

Reid has been using the same tactics to project an image of being Mr. Cleanface since the beginning of his political career. He started as a protege of Donal “Mike” O’Callaghan, who served as Governor of Nevada from 1970 to 1978. Reid was elected as O’Callaghan’s Lieutenant Governor in 1970. With support from O’Callaghan, he ran for Senate in 1974 against Republican Paul Laxalt. Reid’s campaign rhetoric accused Laxalt of profiting from association with billionaire Howard Hughes, who had a long relationship with Capone mob representative Johnny Rosselli and had recently secured Rosselli’s assistance in acquiring Las Vegas’ Desert Inn from associates of Cleveland mobster Moe Dalitz in 1967.

Laxalt had indeed taken contributions from Hughes. But what Reid failed to mention was, so had his own former running mate O’Callaghan. And so had Reid himself.

Hughes, like the Mafia, hedged his political bets by adopting a nonpartisan policy towards graft. He sold Laxalt, O’Callaghan, and other politicians on his move into Las Vegas by portraying it as a broomstick for sweeping the Mafia out of the casino business. Then “reformer” Hughes turned around and paid Johnny Rosselli a finder’s fee. Meanwhile handsome profits from the deal went to Moe Dalitz, then a partner in developing Rancho La Costa in the San Diego area. From bases outside Las Vegas the Mafia maintained a lower-profile presence in the city, and the Chicago Outfit and its Midwestern partners were soon creeping back into town by 1974--just in time for Mr. Cleanface to “kick the mob out of Las Vegas”, again.

O’Callaghan replaced Nevada Gaming Commission Chairman Peter Echeverria with Reid in mid-1977, in the midst of the new Chicago Mafia move into town spearheaded by Agosto. As chairman, one of Reid’s first acts was to approve the sale of the Hacienda hotel-casino (now the site of Mandalay Bay), controlled by a Chicago Mafia front company called Argent Corporation, to former lounge musician Paul Lowden. 

Reid approved the sale despite objections from the state’s Gaming Control Board alleging the involvement of Lowden with hidden associates from a company based in San Diego. Also in 1977 Reid and the Nevada Gaming Commission initially approved the deal that allowed Agosto’s associates to skim funds from the Tropicana for two years before Reid decided to “kick the mob out of Las Vegas”. 

In 1978 Reid’s commission approved applications for new Reno and Lake Tahoe ventures by the Del E. Webb Corporation, named for Del Webb, a Phoenix construction contractor whose Las Vegas buildings had been used by Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky for skimming funds. 

After the use of Reid’s name by Agosto and his associates was reported by papers in mid-1979, Reid and the Gaming Commission approved transfer of control of the Tropicana from Agosto’s group to the Phoenix-based Ramada hotel chain, which had been founded with initial investment input from Webb.

By 1980 Reid had been cleared of Agosto’s allegations by the Carter Justice Department (then also in the process of bringing about virtually no successful prosecutions in Billygate, Koreagate, ABSCAM, BCCI, or the investigation of cocaine use by Treasury Secretary Hamilton Jordan). Since then Reid has received contributions from various donors connected with the gambling industry, including:

--Moe Dalitz, associated with the Cleveland mob, the Desert Inn, the Stardust Resort & Casino, and Rancho La Costa.

--Irwin Molasky and Merv Adelson, who partnered with Dalitz in developing Rancho La Costa but deny any criminal associations.

--Morris Shenker, an attorney associated with the St. Louis Mafia, Meyer Lansky, Jimmy Hoffa, and the Dunes Hotel.

--Paul Lowden, who after purchasing the Hacienda in 1977 from Argent Corporation purchased the Sahara Resort and Casino in 1982 from Del Webb.

--Ed and Fred Doumani, associated with the Tropicana Hotel, the El Morocco casino, Agosto, and Joey Cusumano, former lieutenant of Chicago Mafia representative Anthony Spilotro; Agosto’s infiltration of the Tropicana was facilitated in 1975 when the Chicago and Kansas City Mafia families conspired to block a Teamsters Central States Pension Fund loan to the Doumanis; when Argent Corporation’s gambling license was revoked in 1979 Argent initially agreed to sell its holdings to the Doumanis; later in 1983 the Doumanis loaned funds to the now-bankrupt Agosto.

--Bart Rizzolo, who along with his son Rick Rizzolo operates the Crazy Horse Too strip club; associated with the Doumanis and Joey Cusumano.

--Kirk Kerkorian, owner at various times of Caesar’s Palace (built with financing from the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund), the Flamingo Hotel (sold in 1970 to the Hilton Hotels Corporation, partly financed in the 1940s by Henry Crown, who also financed Chicago mob associate Jacob Arvey, and later associated with mob lawyer Sidney Korshak), and the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino (built on the heels of Kerkorian’s acquisition of controlling MGM shares from Edgar Bronfman, son of Lansky bootlegging associate Samuel Bronfman; Bronfman’s son Edgar Jr. has also been a Reid contributor).

--Steve Wynn, a casino developer who used profits from a 1970 deal involving Howard Hughes and Caesar’s Palace to purchase the Golden Nugget; described in a Scotland Yard report as a front man for New York’s Genovese Mafia family.

--Joseph Alioto, a San Francisco politician related to Milwaukee Mafia boss John Alioto; alleged by informer Jimmy “the Weasel” Fratianno to be associated with San Diego Mafia boss Frank “the Bomp” Bompensiero, a charge Alioto denied; implicated in the Koreagate Congressional bribe scandal.

--Tony Coelho, a corrupt former Congressman who in 1997 at the time of his donation to Reid was involved in a business venture with El Rancho, a Las Vegas casino formerly run by Ed Torres, an associate of Meyer Lansky.

While receiving donations from such sources, Reid has remained associated with the two attorneys involved in the Justice Department probe of Agosto’s allegations, Jay H. Brown and Oscar Goodman. Brown has been a regular contributor to Reid’s campaigns since 1982, and his law firm Singer & Brown lists Reid as a reference in one online profile. In January 2006 Reid and Goodman--now the Mayor of Las Vegas--discussed the possibility of Goodman running for Senate, with Reid describing Goodman to the press as “a very, very strong candidate”. Meanwhile Goodman had recently created a local scandal by throwing a party with a guest list which included Joey Cusumano, legally barred from Las Vegas casinos for his ties to the Chicago Mafia. Goodman’s open association with Cusumano was called by former Las Vegas FBI chief Bobby Siller “an embarrassment to the state, an embarrassment for Las Vegas and an embarrassment for gaming”. Another former Las Vegas FBI chief, Joseph Yablonsky, said of Goodman, “'Mob lawyer' is a title Goodman has relished and promoted over the years, although it's contradictory to his sporadic and inane denials that organized crime exists in the United States. The 'boys' in Chicago, Kansas City and elsewhere must be elated about their guy in Vegas. They're probably thinking 'we'll have some political juice there again.'”

Yablonsky’s last comment could also be applied to Harry Reid. So did Mr. Cleanface really kick the mob out of Las Vegas, or did he just help them move to Washington?

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The Mob inside ObamaCare,

The New Jersey Democrat met with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Director Marilyn Tavenner on June 7, 2012 in an apparent attempt to persuade her that his close friend and major donor, Dr. Salomon Melgen, did not owe the federal government $9 million for Medicare overbilling.

It was a pure New Jersey-style political power play on Menendez’s part, since the CMS hadcarefully documented Melgen’s egregious violation of clear and widely understood billing practices.

Tavenner was unpersuaded by Menendez’s pitch. He reportedly left the meeting frustrated he had not been able to deliver a solution to his friend’s problems with the government.

Menendez decided to turn up the political pressure by speaking to Tavenner’s boss, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius.

The very next day — June 8, 2012 — Melgen (through Vitreo-Retinal Consultants, the company HHS said overbilled the federal government by $9 million) contributed $300,000 to the Senate Majority PAC, a super PAC closely aligned with Senator Harry Reid (D-NV). Reid was the Majority Leader then and is currently the Minority Leader. Founded in 2011, the super PAC is co-chaired by two former top staffers from Reid’s office.

Ironically, the funds for this generous contribution may well have come from the $9 million CMS says the federal government overpaid Melgen because of his overbilling. CMS has asked for Melgen to repay that money, but Melgen apparently has other uses for it and is fighting desperately to hang on to it.

Shortly thereafter, Menendez began pressuring Reid to go over Tavenner’s head and set up a meeting with Sebelius where he could again make the case that his friend really didn’t owe the federal government that $9 million CMS said he had overbilled.

The lobbying of Reid by Menendez and his friend Melgen soon became very personal.

Reid’s subsequent use of his power as the Senate Majority Leader to advance Melgen’s private business interests raises obvious red flags that federal prosecutors have apparently ignored so far.

Breitbart News asked Peter M. Koski, the Department of Justice attorney leading the investigation into Menendez, which is widely reported to soon result in a grand jury returning a bill of indictment on corruption charges, how Reid’s conduct differs from Menendez’s and why Reid himself is not under federal investigation on similar charges of corruption. We have not received a response.

As Politico reported in 2013, Melgen’s private jet flew from Florida to Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 2012, presumably carrying Melgen. The next day, on June 18, Melgen’s private jet flew Reid from Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. to Boston and back. It is unclear if Melgen accompanied Reid on that flight, but if he did, the two would have had plenty of time to discuss Melgen’s Medicare overbilling problems, his potential future political donations to Reid’s Senate Majority Super PAC, and what Reid might be willing to do to advance his business interests.

Federal Election Commission records show that the Senate Majority PAC reimbursed Vitreo-Retinal Consultants $4,160 for “travel” on July 10, 2012, three weeks after the flight.

Senator Reid’s spokesperson later confirmed to Politico that the reimbursement was for Reid’s travel on Melgen’s private plane to Boston on June 18.

The trip apparently strengthened the developing political and business relationship between Melgen and Reid.

On June 28, 2012, Melgen’s Vitreo-Retinal Consultants contributed an additional $100,000 to Reid’s Super Majority PAC.

The next week, on July 2, 2012, Menendez spoke on the phone with CMS’s Tavenner, but made no progress in ending Melgen’s $9 million overbilling problem.

Over the next several weeks, Menendez succeeded in persuading Reid to convince Secretary Sebelius to meet with him in person. Reid seems to have summoned Sebelius to Capitol Hill for a meeting with Menendez that he would host in his Senate Majority Leader’s offices.

Reid briefed Sebelius that the purpose of the meeting was to address “billing issues with Dr. Melgen,” as she told Politico on Monday.

But Politico reported that “Sebelius said she was ‘concerned that I knew enough about the investigation’ into Menendez’s actions that she ‘didn’t want to open the door to any inappropriate discussion’ during their meeting.”

Worried that the meeting might place her in legal jeopardy, Sebelius told Politico she consulted with HHS’s counsel’s office prior to the meeting.

According to Politico, “HHS attorneys assured her that she could meet with Menendez, and she said she told the senator the dispute was being handled by an outside administrative review board.” Breitbart News asked HHS General Counsel William B. Schultz, who was acting general counsel in 2012, to confirm Sebelius’s account but has not received a response.

As an added precaution, Sebelius decided to bring Jonathan Blum, deputy administrator of CMS, to the meeting. An expert on the billing policies and procedures required by law to be filed in Medicare reimbursements, Blum’s role was to firmly reiterate the CMS case against Melgen.

The meeting between Reid, Menendez, Sebelius, and Blum took place on August 2, 2012.

At the meeting, Sebelius says Menendez pushed for HHS to drop $9 million overbilling claim against Melgen’s Vitreo-Retinal Consultants. Blum laid out the details to Menendez, who once again protested the conclusions. Reid, for the most part, Sebelius told Politico, was quiet, his role having been primarily to facilitate the meeting.

Through a spokesperson, Menendez denied discussing anything but legislative matters in the August 2 meeting with Sebelius and Reid.

In a carefully parsed phrase, Menendez’s spokesperson Tricia Enright said “the senator did not mention Melgen during their meeting.”

It was the same language Menendez’s attorneys used to describe the meeting in a brief they presented to the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit where they argued that one of Menendez’s aides who arranged the August 2 meeting, Michael Barnard, should not be compelled to answer 50 questions posed by the grand jury investigating Menendez.

The attorneys claimed that as a legislative aide working only on legislative matters, Barnard could not be compelled to answer questions about the meeting because he legitimately invoked the speech or debate clause of the Constitution.

Neither Enright nor Menendez’s attorneys offered any comment on whether the name of Melgen’s company, Vitreo-Retinal Consultants, was mentioned by Menendez or anyone else at the meeting.

There is no indication that either Reid or Menendez disclosed to Sebelius that the company that overbilled Medicare $9 million (completely controlled by Melgen) had recently donated $400,000 to Reid’s SuperPAC.

Breitbart News posed that question to Secretary Sebelius but has not received a response.

Breitbart News also posed the same question to Senator Menendez and Senator Reid but received no response.

Breitbart News also posed the question to former deputy administrator Blum, who now serves as executive vice president of medical affairs at CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield, and received no response.

Breitbart News also asked Blum to weigh in on the dispute between Sebelius and Menendez on whether or not Melgen’s $9 million Medicare overbilling problem was discussed.

On October 16, 2012, Melgen’s Vitreo-Retinal Consultants donated another $300,000 to Reid’s Super Majority PAC, bringing the company’s total contributions in 2012 to $700,000.

In November 2012, Menendez was easily re-elected to another six year term in the Senate, defeating his Republican rival by a 58 percent to 39 percent margin.

In January 2013, the FBI raided the offices Vitreo-Retinal Consultants in Florida, presumably to obtain evidence to be used by the Department of Justice in its ongoing investigation of Menendez and Melgen.

In the spring of 2014 the FBI interviewed Reid and Sebelius about the August 2, 2012 meeting with Menendez. Neither have been called before the grand jury that will reportedly return a bill of indictment against Menendez on corruption charges within the next few weeks.

It is unclear whether former CMS deputy administrator Blum was interviewed by the FBI or was called to testify before the grand jury.

If, as is expected, the grand jury shortly returns a bill of indictment against Senator Menendez on corruption charges, the question on the minds of many critics who say the Department of Justice is highly politicized will be this:

Given the known facts of the relationship between Dr.Salomon Melgen, his company Vitreo-Retinal Consultants, Senator Menendez, Senator Reid, and the Senate Majority PAC, why has the Department of Justice not initiated an investigation into possible corruption charges against Senator Reid as well?

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Harry Reid, Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mob Ties Look Odd? Who Pays Cash Money for Drug Dealer Pardons? Who get paid cash on Mobster Land Deals? Read this, Who beat up Harry Whorehouse Reid, The Mobster in Las Vegas, took actions to help Harry hide from the law by forcing him out of office? What are you going to do when they come for you Harry Reid Barack Obama Eric Holder Hillary Clinton George Soros?

You’d never know it from the mainstream media (make believe) b.s. pieces on Harry Whorehouse Reid’s sudden and urgent Senate retirement, but it was a long string of corruption scandals—including a recent one involving his attorney son—that drove the veteran Nevada senator to abruptly leave public office.  

The question remains, who beat up Harry Reid?  Surely Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, George Soros, Al Sharpton and others have known a mobster over the years, even if they didn't know it.  Harry Reid, right in the middle of the old Mob town known as Las Vegas has a lot of money for a poor senator born in a whorehouse in Nevada.

For nearly a decade Judicial Watch has investigated and exposed Reid’s involvement in a multitude of transgressions and JW even warned the Senate Ethics Committee, but not surprisingly, no action was ever taken. 

On multiple occasions the Senate minority leader appeared on JW’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” list for his role in a number of political scandals that got more serious as his seniority and clout in Congress increased.  Maybe Harry told somebody no and they knocked him around or maybe he told somebody yes and the mobsters didn't like that?  

• Jack Abramoff, Former Lobbyist — Abramoff is at the center of a massive public corruption investigation by the Department of Justice that, in the end, could involve as many as a dozen members of Congress. Abramoff pleaded guilty to conspiracy, fraud and a host of other charges on January 3, 2006, and was sent to prison in November to serve a five-year, 10-month sentence for defrauding banks of $23 million in Florida in 2000.
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• Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) — In January 2006, Hillary Clinton’s fundraising operation was fined $35,000 by the Federal Election Commission for failing to accurately report more than $700,000 in contributions to Clinton’s Senate 2000 campaign. New information also surfaced in 2006 raising more questions about Hillary and her brother Anthony Rodham’s connection to the Clinton Pardongate scandal, where presidential pardons were allegedly traded in exchange for cash and other favors.
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• Former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-CA) — In November 2005, Cunningham pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud, and tax evasion. He was sentenced to 8 years, four months in prison and ordered to pay $1.8 million in restitution in March 2006.
• Former Rep. Tom Delay (R-TX) — Tom DeLay, who was forced to step down from his position as House Majority Leader and then resign from Congress, decided in 2006 not to run for re-election. Congressman DeLay has been embroiled in a series of scandals from bribery to influence peddling, and was indicted twice by grand juries in Texas.
• Former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) — Foley left the House in disgrace after news broke that he had been sending predatory homosexual emails to a House page. A recent House Ethics Committee report indicated that Republican leaders knew about Foley’s dangerous behavior, but failed to take action. Democrats, meanwhile, shopped the story to the press to influence the elections. Outrageously, the Committee recommended no punishment for those involved.
• Rep. Denny Hastert (R-IL) — In addition to mishandling the Foley scandal, outgoing House Speaker Dennis Hastert allowed House ethics process to ground to a halt on his watch. Gary Condit, Cynthia McKinney, William Jefferson, John Conyers, Tom Delay, Duke Cunningham, Jim McDermott, Patrick Kennedy are examples of alleged wrongdoers who faced little-to-no ethics enforcement in the House.
• Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) — Hastings is one of only six federal judges to be removed from office through impeachment and has accumulated staggering liabilities ranging from $2,130,006 to $7,350,000. Hastings was “next in line” for Chairmanship of the House Select Committee on Intelligence until a wave of protest forced Nancy Pelosi to select another candidate. Nonetheless, Hastings is expected to continue to serve on the Intelligence Committee.
• Rep. William “Dollar Bill” Jefferson (D-LA) — Jefferson is alleged to have accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to help broker high-tech business deals in Nigeria. According to press reports, he was also caught on tape discussing the deals, while an FBI search of his home uncovered $90,000 in cash stuffed in his freezer.
• Former Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) — Ohio Republican Congressman Bob Ney resigned in early November 2006, three weeks after pleading guilty for accepting bribes from an Indian casino in exchange for legislative favors. Ney was the first congressman to be convicted of a crime in the web of scandals involving former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and is expected to serve a jail sentence.
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• Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) — Senator Reid came under fire in 2006 for failing to properly report to Congress a $700,000 land deal. Reid also accepted more than $30,000 of Abramoff-tainted money allegedly in return for his ”cooperation” in matters related Nevada Indian gaming.

Dishonorable Mentions include:

• Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) — According to complaints released by the House Ethics Committee recently, aides to Representative John Conyers (D- MI) alleged their former boss repeatedly violated House ethics rules, forcing them to serve as his personal servants, valets, and as campaign staff while on the government payroll.
• Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) — In May 2006, Kennedy crashed his car into a Capitol Hill barricade at nearly 3 a.m. in the morning. Kennedy blamed the incident on a reaction to prescription pills, but officers at the scene said he smelled of alcohol. Nonetheless, they escorted him home rather than arresting him.
• Former Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) — McKinney assaulted a Capitol Hill police officer in April after refusing to go through a metal detector. While McKinney was never forced to answer in a court of law for her behavior, she lost her bid for re-election in 2006.
• Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) — Iraq war critic John Murtha was incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s first choice for House Majority Leader despite the ethical skeletons in his closet. Murtha is an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1980 “Abscam” scandal, which included the arrest and convictions of a senator and six congressmen. Murtha, whose current ethics continue to be questioned, lost his bid for Majority Leader to Maryland Democrat Steny Hoyer.
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• Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) — News reports surfaced in 2006 that Illinois Senator Barak Obama entered into an unusual land deal with a now- indicted political fundraiser, Tony Rezko. The complicated real estate transaction occurred when it was widely known that Rezko was under federal investigation in a political corruption scandal.
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• David Safavian, Former Bush Administration Official — Safavian, the former White House Chief of Procurement and former Chief of Staff for the General Services Administration, was indicted on September 19, 2006 on five counts of lying about his dealings with former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and obstructing a Senate investigation of his dealings. Safavian resigned from his White House position three days prior to his arrest.

As far back as 2006 Reid was in hot water for violating Senate rules by concealing a seven-figure payoff on a suspicious land deal orchestrated by a longtime friend known for political bribery and mob ties. 

The influential senator secretly collected a $1.1 million profit on land he hadn’t personally owned for years. 

To hide the deal, Reid transferred ownership, legal liability and tax consequences to a company owned by a former casino lawyer who has been investigated by federal authorities. 

Months earlier Red got busted for accepting gifts from a state agency trying to influence him. In that scheme the lawmaker quietly took very expensive ringside boxing tickets from the Nevada Athletic Commission while that state agency was trying to influence him on the sport’s federal regulation.

In 2012 Reid made JW’s corrupt politician list because he was embroiled in an influence-peddling scandal involving a Chinese “green energy” client of a Nevada law firm run by his son Rory. 

Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV):

A July 30, 2012, headline in the Las Vegas Review-Journal alerted Nevadans to Sen. Harry Reid’s latest influence-peddling scandal – this one involving ENN Energy Group, a Chinese “green energy” client of the Nevada law firm of which Reid’s son, Rory, is a principal.

As Reuter’s reported on August 31, 2012, “Reid has been one of the project’s most prominent advocates, helping recruit the company during a 2011 trip to China and applying his political muscle on behalf of the project in Nevada. His son, a lawyer with a prominent Las Vegas firm that is representing ENN, helped it locate a 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) desert site that it is buying well below appraised value from Clark County, where Rory Reid formerly chaired the county commission.”

“Well below appraised value” is a considerable understatement. The deal Rory Reid put together for the firm his dad brought to town saw ENN purchase the site for just $4.5 million – a mere fraction of separate appraisals that valued the property at $29.6 million and $38.6 million.

 Even with all of that, however, the project has failed to move forward as rapidly as Harry and Rory Reid would like – for the simple reason that there is currently no market in Nevada for the green energy ENN claims it could produce.

But, of course, funneling money to the Reid family is nothing new for the Senate Majority Leader. As the Washington Post reported in a February 7, 2012, story titled “Public projects, private interests:”

In 2004 and 2005, the Senate majority leader secured $21.5 million to build a bridge over the Colorado River, linking the gambling resort town of Laughlin, Nev., with Bullhead City, Ariz. Reid owns 160 acres of undeveloped land in Bullhead City.

And according to Peter Schweizer, writing for Fox News on December 12, 2012, “Sen. Reid has sponsored at least $47 million in earmarks that directly benefitted organizations that one of his sons, Key Reid, [RW1] either lobbies for or is affiliated with.

Needless to say, the well-entrenched Sen. Reid has been a repeat Top Ten offender.

The senator was one of the Nevada projects most prominent advocates, helping recruit the company during a 2011 trip to China and applying his political muscle on its behalf, according to a mainstream news report. Reid’s son was an attorney at the prominent Las Vegas firm that represented the Chinese Company, ENN Energy Group, and helped it locate a 9,000-acre desert site for well below its appraised value from Clark County.

In 2013 Reid was again named to JW’s most corrupt politician list for taking more than $130,000 in illegal campaign funds from a shady donor, Harvey Whittemore, who eventually went to jail.

 Whittemore hired four of the senator’s sons at a law firm in which he served as senior partner and worked with Reid on huge land deals that required federal legislation. Additionally, Reid sponsored at least $47 million in earmarks that directly benefitted organizations with close ties to one of his sons, Key Reid. The legislator also colluded with President Obama to nix a proposed nuclear waste dump in Yucca Mountain Nevada after U.S. taxpayers spent $15 billion on the project.

More recently Reid abused his authority to pressure the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to expedite a $115 million foreign investor visa deal critical to his son’s casino client. 

Reid got the DHS to override agency procedures to rush through hundreds of visa applications from foreign nationals who helped fund a Las Vegas hotel and casino that hired Rory Reid to provide legal representation for the project, according to a recent news report. 

The article goes into tremendous detail about the illicit scheme that evidently served as the straw that broke the camel’s back. 

A few days later Reid said he wouldn’t run for a sixth term in the Senate. 

His hometown newspaper called it a “surprise announcement.” On his government website, Reid posted a goodbye video saying he did his best though hasn’t been perfect.

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