From Hot Air:
The Federal Election Commission wants an explanation from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid about more than $16,000 in campaign spending on “gifts,” some of which found its way into the pocket of the Reid family. Reid was forced to admit that the “Ryan Elisabeth” on the disbursement funds was actually Ryan Elisabeth Reid, his granddaughter, who supplied jewelry for Reid’s campaign to hand out to supporters…
……the gifts…were purchased from his granddaughter, Ryan Elisabeth Reid, who is a jewelry vendor in Berkeley, CA. The gifts were later passed on to donors and supporters…
Reid has previously been asked to explain holiday gifts to his Ritz Carlton doorman by the FEC. But in the letter from the FEC sent last week, the agency wants to know what payments of $11,370 and $5,416 (UPDATED) were. “Itemized disbursements must include a brief statement or description of why each disbursement was made,” the letter said.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has received campaign contributions from people and political action committees linked to multiple companies suspected of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
The FCPA “generally prohibits the payment of bribes to foreign officials to assist in obtaining or retaining business,” according to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Coincidentally, when describing Charles and David Koch as “un-American” during a recent Senate floor speech, Reid referred to a Bloomberg news story in 2011 on a French subsidiary of Koch Industries.
Koch officials in the U.S. told Bloomberg in 2011 they had no prior knowledge of the illegal activities linked to the subsidiary. More than a dozen people were fired as a result of a French investigation, a source told the Washington Examiner in 2011.
Reid’s mention of the French debacle on the Senate floor prompted some journalists to dig into the Senate Majority Leader’s contribution records with the Center for Responsive Politics.
The CRP records reveal that Reid has accepted campaign money from individuals and political action committees associated with 10 companies linked to FCPA investigations.
The contributions total $515,100 between 2009 and 2013.
Here are the companies under investigation for FCPA violations, according to FCPA Blog’s January 2014 list, with the amount of money their employees and PACs have given to Reid:
The blue bar is the amount given by individuals at the company, the red bar is the amount given by the company PACs, and the number atop each bar is the total amount given by company employees and PACs.
……”I have no problem with people making a lot of money — but it’s what they do with their money,” Reid told Business Insider in a subsequent interview.
Reid makes money illegally, and tends to do a lot of illegal things with it.
Harry has quite a rap sheet.
He has ties to organized crime figures, ACORN, and corrupt leftwing billionaire George Soros.
He made a hefty profit selling land he no longer owned. The windfall came about because of legislative actions that Reid took regarding the Coyote Springs development project.
He received illegal campaign contributions from a Nevada political operative.
Reid is one of the most crooked, hypocritical, arrogant, race–baiting, immoral politicians in the Dem party; and that’s saying a lot.
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