Filthy Harry decides to get the hell out of Dodge before there’s a new sheriff in town.
From Breitbart.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) explains his shocking decision to not seek re-election and retire when his term ends in 2016 by telling the New York Times, “he was worried his race would consume campaign money that would be needed in other competitive states as Democrats try to regain control of the Senate.”
“I think it is unfair for me to be soaking up all the money to be re-elected with what we are doing in Maryland, in Pennsylvania, in Missouri, in Florida,” Reid told the Times.Reid said neither his recent eye injury nor concern over his chances of winning played a factor in his decision.
But the real reason Reid is retiring may have nothing to do with any of these excuses and everything to do with his concerns that a possible Republican Presidential victory in 2016 would lead to the appointment of a Republican Attorney General in January 2017.
A Republican Attorney General would be almost certain to initiate a criminal investigation into Reid’s abuse of his political power in a brazen intervention in the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) issuance of EB-5 visas to investors in a Las Vegas casino and hotel that was represented by his son, Rory Reid, as was highlighted in a report released by the Inspector General of DHS last week.
“I think Harry Reid’s getting out of town ahead of the posse,” former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova tells Breitbart News.
On Thursday, the non-profit group Cause of Action called on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to launch a criminal investigation of Reid. Citing the specific federal statutes that were violated, the group said Reid “participat[ed] in unlawful political activity, possible coercion and fraud related to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program.”
The DOJ under Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder is so highly politicized it would never launch a criminal investigation into the many scandals in which Harry Reid is at the center.
That’s a fucking understatement. Every crime, scandal, abuse of office, and unconstitutional action under the Obama regime has been given carte blanche by his water boy in the DOJ.
But, as diGenova told Breitbart News on Friday, “[t]here is no doubt in my mind that an independent Department of Justice or an independent U.S. Attorney would open a preliminary criminal investigation into Harry Reid’s intervention into the expediting of EB-5 visas and would in addition convene a grand jury.” (emphasis added)
Reid announced his surprising decision to retire just days after the DHS Inspector General released a report that concluded: “Reid pressured a compliant DHS official to override normal departmental procedures and rush through 230 EB-5 foreign visa applications, thereby freeing up $115 million the applicants invested in the SLS Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.”
As Breitbart News reported, “the owner of that casino project had hired Reid’s son, Rory Reid, to provide legal representation for the project.”
Then there’s Reid’s complicity in Senator Robert Menendez’s (D-NJ) abuse of his political office by intervening in an ongoing Department of Health and Human Services adjudicatory process involving $8.9 million in Medicare overbilling by his friend and campaign funds donor, Dr. Salomon Melgen.
……Reid “hosted a meeting between Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. At the meeting, Menendez made the case for his friend and donor, Dr. Salomon Melgen, who was at the time embroiled in what was supposed to be an independent adjudicatory process at HHS involving $8.9 million the department said he overbilled Medicare.”
Reid’s intervention came “immediately after Melgen donated $300,000 to the Senate Majority PAC, a Super PAC that has close ties to Reid. By the end of 2012, Melgen’s donations to the Senate Majority PAC totaled $700,000.”
Obama’s help with Filthy Harry’s expediting of visas for Asian investors for the casino, and the Medicare fraud/kickback are just two items on Harry’s rap sheet. He also funneled money from campaign funds into his daughter’s jewelry business.
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.
The fucked up part about all this is the way the GOP sits on its hands. It hasn’t done anything toward pressing charges or the impeachment of any criminal in Obama’s regime, including him.
Okay, so Harry’s fleeing the scene of the crime while Republicans hold Congressional hearings and blow a lot of hot air. They’re in a position to raise hell and make things miserable for the crapweasels, but they won’t.
In a perfect world, Harry would be on his way to an 8×10 cell.
Obama will be out of office in 2016. No one in the regime will ever be held accountable for their criminal malfeasance. Reid will be in good company.