Harry Reid’s BLM Land Scams, Bribes, Mafia Links and Nepotism!
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is way more than a grievance about unpaid ‘grazing fees’, as Senator
Harry Reid’s involvement with BLM is evidence of how Agenda 21-led
policies are rapidly seeping out of the Capitol Hill swamp.Liberal
oriented media, along with their neo-conservative counterparts on the
right, are once again reading from the same page and conveniently over
concerned with Cliven Bundy’s alleged ‘racist’ comments than they are about Americans’ having the ability to retain their inherent constitutional rights as a whole.
UPDATED 5/2/14
While Senator Harry Reid professes that he is running the Bundy cattle off of public land because it’s the right thing to do, evidence indicates that Dirty Harry might have a personal interest in seeing that the Bundy’s join the other 52 ranchers they’ve run out of business.
Parcels held by an entity, Reid Bunkerville, LLC, which is partially owned by the Nevada Senator are in close proximity to the Bundy ranch.
The parcels appear to be in the path of future development, which may even involve a freeway interchange and loop, all west of Bunkerville in the same general area as those “trespass cattle.”
The parcel numbers below link to the Clark County Assessor’s Office, with all of the pertinent information and property descriptions shown.
They total 93.33 acres in size.
Reid Bunkerville L L C Dst-800 #002-26-301-005
Reid Bunkerville L L C Dst-800 #002-26-701-001
The ‘race storm’ media buzz turned out to be a well-crafted hoax, engineered by left-wing Media Matters and the New York Times, and a deliberate attempt to divert the public’s attention away from the obvious federal government despotism on display two weeks ago in Bunkerville, Nevada – the latest federal power grab in a frightening trend which is presently overrunning the United States today.
IMAGE: ‘Dirty’ Harry Reid – A Democratic
United States Senator from Nevada and Senate Majority Leader, is at the
center of controversy over his support of the forced seizure of cattle
at the Bundy Ranch and his involvement in the acquisition of
land in Nevada, as well as his ties to former aide Neil Kornze, who is
now a director at the Bureau of Land Management. (photo credit truthrevolt.org)Nevada and the BLM land scam
Former Nevada Gaming Comissioner, now Democratic Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid,
appears to have made a lucrative career out of ‘gaming’ the political
system, seemingly for his own personal gain. His role in the siege
at Cliven Bundy’s ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada, has only started to
unfold, revealing highly questionable connections to the Chinese energy corporation ENN, through its Nevada counterpart ENN Mojave Energy. The land deal was reportedly a steal for Chinese business investors, who were set to receive a sweetheart deal of 87 percent discount for the shadowy land purchase.
Reid has also maintained a longstanding history with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Nevada, a corporate division of the US Department of Interior. The BLM oversees public land acting as a manager for the United States government and Reid and his crony associates have been caught distorting laws for development projects across the state of Nevada for many years, abusing environmental protection clauses to ‘fast track’ unsavory land deals. Reid worked behind the scenes with BLM to change the boundaries of the desert tortoise’s habitat to accommodate the planned development of a top financial donor, Harvey Whittemore.
Attorney Jonathan Emmord explains, “The desert tortoise is only a justification against development of those who are not politically connected to Reid. Whittemore gave Reid and Reid’s Political Action Committee $45,000. If Cliven Bundy were a Reid financial backer, his fate might well be different, but he is not. Bundy opposes Reid.”
IMAGE: Like Father, Like Son – Rory Reid of Lionel Sawyer & Collins, the well-known law firm, functions as lobbying group out of Nevada, largely because of its Las Vegas hotel and casino connections. (photo credit burstupdates.wordpress.com)For self-appointed oligarchs, it’s always important to keep the money in the family, and if one member of the family controls the political strings, then it’s a fairly straight forward operation. Harry Reid, the highest ranking Democratic Senator, is said to have been busy brokering a $5 Billion dollar deal to secure a solar farm site in Laughlin, Nevada – through his son Rory Reid, a shareholder and attorney at Lionel Sawyer & Collins, heading the law firm’s Gaming and Regulatory Law Department. Emmord adds here:
“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.”
IMAGE: ‘The 64th Legislator’ – Harvey Whittemore a former lawyer
and lobbyist for the Lionel Sawyer & Collins – He’s maintained a
close supportive relationship with Senator Harry Reid over the years,
having helped out four of Reid’s sons get their start at the well-known
law firm in Nevada. He has been the subject of a controversial land deal
called Coyote Springs. Attorney John Dawson also worked at the firm and
allegedly transferred funds for the firm to offshore accounts in the
Cook Islands.(photo credit freebeacon.com)
Partners in crime
Harvey Whittemore, was a senior managing partner at Rory Reid’s law firm, Lionel Sawyer & Collins, and was once the firm’s top lobbyist. A close friend of Harry Reid, he was convicted on three out of four felony charges and sentenced to two years in jail for contributing nearly $150,000 in illegal funds to Senator Reid’s re-election committee in 2007. In May of 2013, a federal jury found Whittemore – a close friend of Reid’s, guilty of the charges levied against him and he was ordered to pay $100,000 dollars in fines and is set to serve time behind bars. Incredibly, but like so many scandals of this sort, Senator Reid managed to brush off his part in the corruption scandal, most likely with the help of ‘friends’ in high places – like the White House.
Another solar farm company Brightsource Energy was slated to benefit greatly from the Whittemore Coyote Springs development and all the perks that came with the federal land easement. The land was leased to Brightsource from Whittemore’s company and was considered a fast track land deal and federal money received through the American Recovery and Reinvestment act (ARRA) that was granted to Nevada via a government stimulus. Harry Reid reportedly received more money from alternative energy for his campaign than any other lawmaker. In 2003, Whittemore is said to have sold company interests in the Wingfield Nevada Group and its affiliate LLC, Coyote Springs Investment to Thomas Seeno and his brother, Alberto Seeno, both development corporations were linked to a $30 billion dollar land deal on 43,000 acres just North of Las Vegas. The Seenos’ a 70-year Nevada family dynasty, with alleged ties to organized crime, became the subject of a federal investigation by several agencies in 2010, for a number crimes including tax debt, extortion and fraud.
The corruption in this story leads right up to Washington DC. In 2007, the Seeno family reportedly contributed $38,800 dollars to Harry Reid’s re-election bid. Congress moved for ‘Federal easement’ in 2004, accepting Whittemore’s $10.4 million dollars penance payment in the process while pushing the Coyote Spring’s project forward. Whittemore’s Coyote Springs company and the Bureau of Land Management was subsequently sued by two public lands issue groups over what was said to be an illegal land swap in 2006. Senator Reid has been said to have helped facilitate Whittemore’s corrupt Coyote Springs development project by procuring the necessary ‘environmental waivers’.
In 1998, Whittemore paid a defense contractor named Aerojet-General Corp $15 million for the title of the privately owned land for the Coyote Springs site. He also managed to negotiated for the same “rent-free government lease of the tortoise habitat” for his new friends. Whittemore was said to have pushed for an “unrestricted use” of the tortoise habitat within the project area.
“The law clearly wouldn’t allow a ‘boundary adjustment’ of 10,000 acres,” said Janine Blaeloch of the Western Lands Project, a group that advocates for public lands. “Congress drew the map of the leased lands. Congress would have to change it.” – (LA Times) The suit against BLM and Coyote Springs was upheld by Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval, who was a District Judge in 2007 prior to defeating Rory Reid in the race for Governor in 2010. Sandoval has seemingly been engineered for a future Vice Presidential slot. Interestingly, he’s also said to be one of the few GOP Governor’s in the United States that is actively implementing Obamacare much to the chagrin of those on the right and those for individual sovereignty on that issue.
Nevada: America’s Most Politically Corrupt State
The Governor of Nevada was also named in a court case involving the Employer’s Insurance Company of Nevada (EICON) while he was Attorney General, accusing Sandoval of taking part in or at least turning a blind eye to a multi-billion dollar transfer of funds over the last decade involving the insurance company – when it should have been put in a Trust held at the Nevada State Treasury. While Sandoval has initially come out in support of the Bundy’s during their standoff with the BLM and stifled some controversial land deals during his time as a District Judge, though it should be noted that his interests in these events should be held under scrutiny. In the political den of corruption that is Nevada, public officials spend a great deal of time and effort reinventing their public image in order to ready themselves for their next step up the political latter, as the political machine in Nevada feeds directly into the Washington DC machine.
In 2010, Utah Attorney General John Swallow was also implicated, apparently helping to engineer what has been described as a ‘bribe’ between a well-known Utah businessman Jeremy Johnson, and of course… Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
A lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) led to an investigation into Johnson due to credit charges and for allegedly misrepresenting products that were sold through a company called I Works and its shadowy collection of ‘shell’ companies. It has been said that Johnson’s company took in around $350 million dollars between 2006 – 2010. Even though it appears as though his business practices were unsavory, he contends he was made to believe he could pay Harry Reid $600,000 dollars to make the federal investigation into his company ‘disappear’. Once again, and somehow – the scandal doesn’t stick to Dirty Harry.
Rigging the Game There have been other alleged connections to organized crime for Senator Reid, perhaps most notably through Attorney Jay Brown, a lawyer with his feet close to the casino mob fire, and a longtime family and business associate of Reid’s. Brown has been the subject of numerous investigations over the years and in 1981 settled a federal securities case out of court.
In the late 1990′s Reid apparently bought two plots land in Nevada, one outright and the other with Jay Brown and in 2001, Reid sold it to a company created by Brown for an equal share in the company. Reid never disclosed this sale to Congress, and in the process the land was still listed as an asset. Reid reportedly collected $1.1 million in the process. Reid’s name was never formally attached to Brown’s company, however in 2006, he filed a correction to his ethics form for a ‘better representation’ of the land deal that took place. Again, the scandal somehow slides off the back of Senator Reid.
It appears that BLM, Senator Reid, as well as a host of shadowy casino characters and corrupt lawyers – have gamed the system when it comes to Nevada and Utah land deals, operating a golden circle of business seemingly outside of anything that would be considered ethical, or even legal for that matter.
IMAGE: The Western Way – The Battle of Bunkerville seemed as though it was on the verge of a another Sagebrush Rebellion,
the BLM installed free speech zones and rounded up nearly 400 cattle,
violating the Bundy’s constitutional rights. (photo credit la.indymedia.org)More BLM Land Grabs Taking Place
Unabashed and with the blessing of President Obama, the BLM are reportedly ready to grab another 90,000 acres of privately owned land in Texas after being turned away at the Bundy ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada.
Some have suggested the Bundy’s may have ‘prescriptive rights’ as to where their cattle can graze, as reported by Ben Swann:
“Montana cattle rancher Todd Devlin says the BLM is now considering new ways of dealing with the Cliven Bundy situation. Devlin, is not just a Montana cattle rancher, but is also a County Commissioner in Prairie County Montana and he has worked with the Department of Interior, having taught workshops for the agency in the past. Monday, Devlin reached out to his contacts in the Department of the Interior to find out why the Bureau of Land Management has refused to work with Bundy rather than simply attempting to run over him.” Delvin posed the question about the possibility of prescriptive rights being used in the Bundy Ranch case:
“Is it possible that this guy (Cliven Bundy) has prescriptive rights?” The response from top officials at the BLM, “We are worried that he might, and he might use that defense.”
Prescriptive Rights legally allow anyone who qualifies the right to use land, if a person or persons have been using that land for at least 5 years without legal action taken by the property owner, as outlined by Ben Swann:
“Because Bundy stopped paying his grazing fees to the BLM in 1993 but continued to use the land for over 20 years, it is possible he now has prescriptive rights to the land.”
IMAGE: A historic standoff with federal agents - The the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) tried unsuccessfully to intimidate Cliven Bundy (seen above) and his family into giving up their sovereignty, cattle, as well as their land. However, some have suggested this event has been a staged provocation between two historically powerful families (Bundy & Reid) meant to gauge public reaction and potentially propel the patriot movement into dissolution. There is nothing concrete to support this claim and it could be seen as a diversion. (photo credit thesleuthjournal.com)
IMAGE: A Solar Landscape – An overview of proposed solar
projects throughout Nevada aided by Nevada politician’s like Harry Reid
and the BLM. The Bundy Ranch is close to three such sites (photo credit libertyunyielding.com)In
addition to Reid’s BLM connections, there has been other disturbing
news out of Nevada, implicating Special Agent in Charge of BLM, Daniel P Love
and his alleged interest in the BLM siege at the Bundy Ranch, lying to
the public about the BLM’s illegal killing of cattle, as well as his
unconstitutional stance against the Bundy Family, its property,
residents and supporters. This has been covered extensively by Pete Santilli and his GMN team through various audio conversations and people close to the situation in Bunkerville. This is a side of the story that will undoubtedly continue to develop in weeks to come.
MORE INFO ON THAT STAND OFF:
(NaturalNews) Natural News has obtained and is now releasing a secret audio recording of a conversation that took place Thursday, April 10th, between Daniel P. Love, Special Agent in Charge of Region 3 of the BLM and Guerilla Media Network radio host Pete Santilli, serving in the role as a communications liaison between the armed citizen protesters and the BLM.
In this recording, you can hear Daniel Love and Pete Santilli discussing life-and-death confrontations, during which Santilli says Daniel Love and the Sheriff of the county will be arrested if they do not uphold their oath to the United States Constitution.
This audio gives us all a special look inside the twisted mind of BLM Special Agent Dan Love who functions as an agent of government tyranny operating in complete violation of the U.S. Constitution even while telling himself he's backed by the Constitution!
Background: The recording was made during a time when armed citizen protesters were only beginning to arrive, and BLM personnel at the time outnumbered armed citizens. (That situation reversed on Friday when armed citizens vastly outnumbered BLM.)
Click here to hear the audio recording (slightly edited for length, but nothing removed that's inherent to the conversation).
The first voice you hear in this audio is of Pete Santilli asking, "Where's the cattle?"
The next voice, the lower voice is of Dan Love from BLM. Some of the highlights of the recording, transcribed (this transcript is EDITED for length and continuity, listen to the actual audio if you want every single word).
Santilli: "We want zero conflict. You know, confrontational, nose to nose..." And then later, "Are we going to be here screaming at you, and you're gonna be tasing, are you gonna do that type of confrontation. What we are trying to do is to completely de-escalate, 100%."
Santilli: "What we're going to ask for to de-escalate and to make sure we are not in confrontation with you... we want to let you know that we're going to come here and it's going to be non-negotiable what we believe in, and what we believe is the right thing to do."
Dan Love: "We have two federal court orders, and if you interfere, you will be arrested. If you impede and interfere, you will be taken into custody."
Santilli: "Tell DC Justice [Eric Holder] this is non-negotiable... but if you choose to go face to face and people get hurt, then we are going to hold you personally accountable."
Dan Love: "And I will hold you legally accountable. And I guarantee that the Constitution is on my side and not that side... Your Constitutions aren't decided on the dirt... you can fight that argument from jail."
Santilli: "It's not gonna be a fight, it's gonna be a non-negotiable terms, peacefully. If you bring violence..."
Dan Love: "If you interfere, if you impede, you will be arrested. I don't know how you plan on arresting me, but good luck with that."
Santilli: "There are gonna be some law enforcement officials who are gonna be going to jail."
Dan Love: "Yeah, don't do that. That's not gonna end well for ya. That doesn't happen. And again, I've seen your numbers right now, you'd better hope that 10,000 show up..."
Dan Love: "You're telling me you're gonna show up and arrest officers? That's not gonna happen, Mr. Santilli."
Santilli: "If anyone is unconstitutional, is not following to abide by their oath to the U.S. Constitution, they are going to be arrested including the Sheriff of this county."
Dan Love: "Okay, you start with him, go arrest Mr. Gillespie, and once you accomplish that you come back..."
Santilli: "He will be incarcerated if he fails to uphold his oath to the U.S. Constitution... he will go to jail."
Dan Love: "I'm telling you right now I'm putting YOU on warning as the messenger, if you violate, if you impede, if you interfere with two lawful court orders, you will be prosecuted, you will be arrested."
Santilli: "They are unlawful court orders.... I did not come here to do anything but to give you the opportunity to prevent a scenario where you're going to make a decision to cause harm to people."
Dan Love: "We're lawfully here! Do you see all these signs? You're in an enclosed area, you're on federal land..."
Santilli: "It's not federal land."
Dan Love: "It is federal land. I am positive."
Santilli: "I'll bet you lunch."
Dan Love: "Mr. Santilli, if you were right, I wouldn't have a job. So you know what? Be right. Get it changed, and then I'm happy not to wear this little gold shield..."
Santilli: "Do you know how dangerous it is for you to run around with a gun and a badge with what you just told me?... That you actually believe that you have the Constitution, and the law behind you, and the entitlement and you have a badge and a gun?"
Dan Love: "If you come unlawfully, to impede or interfere, you will be arrested. Non-negotiable."
IMAGE: Reid family crest (photo credit englishgathering.co.uk)
The Reid family bloodlineWhen discussing political and financial dynasties in America, it’s important to understand the power structure behind many family names, as it allows one to glean an overall picture of power and control that often stretches beyond US shores and throughout the world.
The Reid family bloodline is certainly no exception, and it’s interesting to note that Harry Reid has been aided throughout his political career by carefully utilizing the ‘rags to riches’ narrative regarding his upbringing. While he may have been brought up from humble beginnings, his family name is nonetheless deeply entrenched with that of the Rockefeller’s and elite society as a whole.
The New York Herald Tribune was owned by the Reid family, and several of their family members have been linked to the powerful secretive group called ‘The Pilgrims Society’. Notable family members include Whitelaw-Reid, Ogden Rodgers-Reid and Ogden Mills-Reid – all publishers and journalists of the well-known American media giant.
The Pilgrims Society has been considered by some as the transatlantic steering body which allow British elites and members of the Royal Family to direct developments in American politics and society, with a list of elite American and British members and patrons – and a membership strictly kept to white Anglo-Saxon protestants. It’s believed to be the backdoor by which European elites are able to wield an undo influence over American affairs.
In understanding some of the deep roots of American hereditary power, another connection that cannot be overlooked, are Pilgrims Society members, the Gould family, as they’ve seemingly played a role in supporting Reid Family enterprises through financial means, and consolidating family power through intermarriage. Throughout history and until today, we’ve seen this kind of family monopoly strategy in the US and Europe, as certain well-to-do families have married into one another. This could vary well be the case in Senator Harry Reid’s life as well, with his marriage to wife Landra Gould.
Not surprisingly, many Pilgrims members are in support of the United Nation’s sustainability projects and have undoubtedly played a role in the creation of the UN’s Agenda 21 sustainable land reform edict. No surprise then that both Edmund de Rothschild and David Rockefeller were listed as notable members of the Pilgrims Society – and during the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 they made their end-run push for the adoption of Agenda 21. The Pilgrims are also said to have heavily infiltrated the Council on Foreign Relations, and other clandestine steering committees and think-tanks.
The Pilgrims Society has also managed to gain influence and control over a chunk of the media operations in the United States and are said to have even had a hand in implementing the CIA’s notorious domestic propaganda program known as Operation Mockingbird through powerful Pilgrims-run media outlets like the New York Times and Time Magazine.
This secretive group has also been linked to the planned 1934 false flag coup on President Franklin D. Roosevelt through the American Liberty League, reportedly backed by many notable wealthy bankers. This concept was partially echoed in the John Frankenheimer feature film, Seven days of May, made in 1964, depicting a secretive plot to overthrow the president. Well respected stalwart and United States Marine Corps major general Smedley Butler alerted a congressional committee about a fascist scheme that was dubbed the Business Plot allegedly to overthrow Roosevelt.
IMAGE (left): ‘Here
and everywhere’ - The Pilgrim Society is secretive group that is said
to connect those in elite circles within Great Britain and the United
States. Other secret groups like Skull & Bones, Quill & Dagger
and Scroll & Key have been said to be many pilgrims. Its first
meeting was at the Carlton Hotel on July 11th 1902, then called the
Pilgrims of Great Britain (photo credit wikispooks.com)
As American dynasties go, so do their European counterparts, and the two even intermarry occasionally.
In the case of Reid Family Dynasty, an apparent stronghold has been developed in the state of Nevada, but could be in jeopardy should the Senator and his son’s shady influence pedaling and under the table dealing be given a proper investigation.
It’s safe to say the regular Americans would all be in agreement about just how dirty and corrupt political life has become in Washington DC, and that the insider trading culture is now a clear and present danger – and now poses a direct threat, to the integrity of the US Constitutional Republic.:
MORE FROM JUDGE JEANINE
In attempting to paint Cliven Bundy as a deadbeat, many a liberal pundit, and Harry Reid himself, have claimed that the raid at the Bundy Ranch was only in relation to grazing fees that Bundy owes the government. But, Judge Jeanine demonstrates that the grazing fees are just a handy excuse.
UPDATED 5/2/14
Smoking BLM Gun – Public Records – Harry Reid Owns 93 Acres Next to Bundy Ranch
While Senator Harry Reid professes that he is running the Bundy cattle off of public land because it’s the right thing to do, evidence indicates that Dirty Harry might have a personal interest in seeing that the Bundy’s join the other 52 ranchers they’ve run out of business.
Parcels held by an entity, Reid Bunkerville, LLC, which is partially owned by the Nevada Senator are in close proximity to the Bundy ranch.
The parcels appear to be in the path of future development, which may even involve a freeway interchange and loop, all west of Bunkerville in the same general area as those “trespass cattle.”
The parcel numbers below link to the Clark County Assessor’s Office, with all of the pertinent information and property descriptions shown.
They total 93.33 acres in size.
Reid Bunkerville L L C Dst-901 # 002-26-301-002
Reid Bunkerville L L C Dst-800 #002-26-301-004Reid Bunkerville L L C Dst-800 #002-26-301-005
Reid Bunkerville L L C Dst-800 #002-26-701-001
The ‘race storm’ media buzz turned out to be a well-crafted hoax, engineered by left-wing Media Matters and the New York Times, and a deliberate attempt to divert the public’s attention away from the obvious federal government despotism on display two weeks ago in Bunkerville, Nevada – the latest federal power grab in a frightening trend which is presently overrunning the United States today.
IMAGE: ‘Dirty’ Harry Reid – A Democratic
United States Senator from Nevada and Senate Majority Leader, is at the
center of controversy over his support of the forced seizure of cattle
at the Bundy Ranch and his involvement in the acquisition of
land in Nevada, as well as his ties to former aide Neil Kornze, who is
now a director at the Bureau of Land Management. (photo credit truthrevolt.org)Nevada and the BLM land scam
Former Nevada Gaming Comissioner, now Democratic Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid,
appears to have made a lucrative career out of ‘gaming’ the political
system, seemingly for his own personal gain. His role in the siege
at Cliven Bundy’s ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada, has only started to
unfold, revealing highly questionable connections to the Chinese energy corporation ENN, through its Nevada counterpart ENN Mojave Energy. The land deal was reportedly a steal for Chinese business investors, who were set to receive a sweetheart deal of 87 percent discount for the shadowy land purchase.Reid has also maintained a longstanding history with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Nevada, a corporate division of the US Department of Interior. The BLM oversees public land acting as a manager for the United States government and Reid and his crony associates have been caught distorting laws for development projects across the state of Nevada for many years, abusing environmental protection clauses to ‘fast track’ unsavory land deals. Reid worked behind the scenes with BLM to change the boundaries of the desert tortoise’s habitat to accommodate the planned development of a top financial donor, Harvey Whittemore.
Attorney Jonathan Emmord explains, “The desert tortoise is only a justification against development of those who are not politically connected to Reid. Whittemore gave Reid and Reid’s Political Action Committee $45,000. If Cliven Bundy were a Reid financial backer, his fate might well be different, but he is not. Bundy opposes Reid.”
IMAGE: Like Father, Like Son – Rory Reid of Lionel Sawyer & Collins, the well-known law firm, functions as lobbying group out of Nevada, largely because of its Las Vegas hotel and casino connections. (photo credit burstupdates.wordpress.com)For self-appointed oligarchs, it’s always important to keep the money in the family, and if one member of the family controls the political strings, then it’s a fairly straight forward operation. Harry Reid, the highest ranking Democratic Senator, is said to have been busy brokering a $5 Billion dollar deal to secure a solar farm site in Laughlin, Nevada – through his son Rory Reid, a shareholder and attorney at Lionel Sawyer & Collins, heading the law firm’s Gaming and Regulatory Law Department. Emmord adds here:
“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.”
“Chinese
magnate Wang Yusuo, with an estimated net worth of $2.2 billion, owns
ENN Group. In 2011 Reid ventured to ENN’s headquarters in Langfang,
China, to tour the company and then worked to get this enormous company
favored by the Chinese Communist government to take on development of a
massive solar energy project in southern Nevada that would endeavor to
supply California with 30% of its energy needs. Wang spoke at Reid’s
Fourth Annual National Clean Energy Summit last year.”
This
cozy little set-up violates all fundamental ethics regarding an elected
official’s conflict of interest code, but these days in Washington DC,
guilt-free corruption has become the norm, as Senators spend most their
quality time lining theirs and their family’s pockets while in office –
with the US taxpayer covering all of their ‘business overheads’.
IMAGE: ‘The 64th Legislator’ – Harvey Whittemore a former lawyer
and lobbyist for the Lionel Sawyer & Collins – He’s maintained a
close supportive relationship with Senator Harry Reid over the years,
having helped out four of Reid’s sons get their start at the well-known
law firm in Nevada. He has been the subject of a controversial land deal
called Coyote Springs. Attorney John Dawson also worked at the firm and
allegedly transferred funds for the firm to offshore accounts in the
Cook Islands.(photo credit freebeacon.com)
Partners in crimeHarvey Whittemore, was a senior managing partner at Rory Reid’s law firm, Lionel Sawyer & Collins, and was once the firm’s top lobbyist. A close friend of Harry Reid, he was convicted on three out of four felony charges and sentenced to two years in jail for contributing nearly $150,000 in illegal funds to Senator Reid’s re-election committee in 2007. In May of 2013, a federal jury found Whittemore – a close friend of Reid’s, guilty of the charges levied against him and he was ordered to pay $100,000 dollars in fines and is set to serve time behind bars. Incredibly, but like so many scandals of this sort, Senator Reid managed to brush off his part in the corruption scandal, most likely with the help of ‘friends’ in high places – like the White House.
Another solar farm company Brightsource Energy was slated to benefit greatly from the Whittemore Coyote Springs development and all the perks that came with the federal land easement. The land was leased to Brightsource from Whittemore’s company and was considered a fast track land deal and federal money received through the American Recovery and Reinvestment act (ARRA) that was granted to Nevada via a government stimulus. Harry Reid reportedly received more money from alternative energy for his campaign than any other lawmaker. In 2003, Whittemore is said to have sold company interests in the Wingfield Nevada Group and its affiliate LLC, Coyote Springs Investment to Thomas Seeno and his brother, Alberto Seeno, both development corporations were linked to a $30 billion dollar land deal on 43,000 acres just North of Las Vegas. The Seenos’ a 70-year Nevada family dynasty, with alleged ties to organized crime, became the subject of a federal investigation by several agencies in 2010, for a number crimes including tax debt, extortion and fraud.
The corruption in this story leads right up to Washington DC. In 2007, the Seeno family reportedly contributed $38,800 dollars to Harry Reid’s re-election bid. Congress moved for ‘Federal easement’ in 2004, accepting Whittemore’s $10.4 million dollars penance payment in the process while pushing the Coyote Spring’s project forward. Whittemore’s Coyote Springs company and the Bureau of Land Management was subsequently sued by two public lands issue groups over what was said to be an illegal land swap in 2006. Senator Reid has been said to have helped facilitate Whittemore’s corrupt Coyote Springs development project by procuring the necessary ‘environmental waivers’.
In 1998, Whittemore paid a defense contractor named Aerojet-General Corp $15 million for the title of the privately owned land for the Coyote Springs site. He also managed to negotiated for the same “rent-free government lease of the tortoise habitat” for his new friends. Whittemore was said to have pushed for an “unrestricted use” of the tortoise habitat within the project area.
“The law clearly wouldn’t allow a ‘boundary adjustment’ of 10,000 acres,” said Janine Blaeloch of the Western Lands Project, a group that advocates for public lands. “Congress drew the map of the leased lands. Congress would have to change it.” – (LA Times) The suit against BLM and Coyote Springs was upheld by Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval, who was a District Judge in 2007 prior to defeating Rory Reid in the race for Governor in 2010. Sandoval has seemingly been engineered for a future Vice Presidential slot. Interestingly, he’s also said to be one of the few GOP Governor’s in the United States that is actively implementing Obamacare much to the chagrin of those on the right and those for individual sovereignty on that issue.
Nevada: America’s Most Politically Corrupt State
The Governor of Nevada was also named in a court case involving the Employer’s Insurance Company of Nevada (EICON) while he was Attorney General, accusing Sandoval of taking part in or at least turning a blind eye to a multi-billion dollar transfer of funds over the last decade involving the insurance company – when it should have been put in a Trust held at the Nevada State Treasury. While Sandoval has initially come out in support of the Bundy’s during their standoff with the BLM and stifled some controversial land deals during his time as a District Judge, though it should be noted that his interests in these events should be held under scrutiny. In the political den of corruption that is Nevada, public officials spend a great deal of time and effort reinventing their public image in order to ready themselves for their next step up the political latter, as the political machine in Nevada feeds directly into the Washington DC machine.
In 2010, Utah Attorney General John Swallow was also implicated, apparently helping to engineer what has been described as a ‘bribe’ between a well-known Utah businessman Jeremy Johnson, and of course… Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
A lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) led to an investigation into Johnson due to credit charges and for allegedly misrepresenting products that were sold through a company called I Works and its shadowy collection of ‘shell’ companies. It has been said that Johnson’s company took in around $350 million dollars between 2006 – 2010. Even though it appears as though his business practices were unsavory, he contends he was made to believe he could pay Harry Reid $600,000 dollars to make the federal investigation into his company ‘disappear’. Once again, and somehow – the scandal doesn’t stick to Dirty Harry.
Rigging the Game There have been other alleged connections to organized crime for Senator Reid, perhaps most notably through Attorney Jay Brown, a lawyer with his feet close to the casino mob fire, and a longtime family and business associate of Reid’s. Brown has been the subject of numerous investigations over the years and in 1981 settled a federal securities case out of court.
In the late 1990′s Reid apparently bought two plots land in Nevada, one outright and the other with Jay Brown and in 2001, Reid sold it to a company created by Brown for an equal share in the company. Reid never disclosed this sale to Congress, and in the process the land was still listed as an asset. Reid reportedly collected $1.1 million in the process. Reid’s name was never formally attached to Brown’s company, however in 2006, he filed a correction to his ethics form for a ‘better representation’ of the land deal that took place. Again, the scandal somehow slides off the back of Senator Reid.
It appears that BLM, Senator Reid, as well as a host of shadowy casino characters and corrupt lawyers – have gamed the system when it comes to Nevada and Utah land deals, operating a golden circle of business seemingly outside of anything that would be considered ethical, or even legal for that matter.
IMAGE: The Western Way – The Battle of Bunkerville seemed as though it was on the verge of a another Sagebrush Rebellion,
the BLM installed free speech zones and rounded up nearly 400 cattle,
violating the Bundy’s constitutional rights. (photo credit la.indymedia.org)More BLM Land Grabs Taking PlaceUnabashed and with the blessing of President Obama, the BLM are reportedly ready to grab another 90,000 acres of privately owned land in Texas after being turned away at the Bundy ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada.
Some have suggested the Bundy’s may have ‘prescriptive rights’ as to where their cattle can graze, as reported by Ben Swann:
“Montana cattle rancher Todd Devlin says the BLM is now considering new ways of dealing with the Cliven Bundy situation. Devlin, is not just a Montana cattle rancher, but is also a County Commissioner in Prairie County Montana and he has worked with the Department of Interior, having taught workshops for the agency in the past. Monday, Devlin reached out to his contacts in the Department of the Interior to find out why the Bureau of Land Management has refused to work with Bundy rather than simply attempting to run over him.” Delvin posed the question about the possibility of prescriptive rights being used in the Bundy Ranch case:
“Is it possible that this guy (Cliven Bundy) has prescriptive rights?” The response from top officials at the BLM, “We are worried that he might, and he might use that defense.”
Prescriptive Rights legally allow anyone who qualifies the right to use land, if a person or persons have been using that land for at least 5 years without legal action taken by the property owner, as outlined by Ben Swann:
“Because Bundy stopped paying his grazing fees to the BLM in 1993 but continued to use the land for over 20 years, it is possible he now has prescriptive rights to the land.”
IMAGE: A historic standoff with federal agents - The the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) tried unsuccessfully to intimidate Cliven Bundy (seen above) and his family into giving up their sovereignty, cattle, as well as their land. However, some have suggested this event has been a staged provocation between two historically powerful families (Bundy & Reid) meant to gauge public reaction and potentially propel the patriot movement into dissolution. There is nothing concrete to support this claim and it could be seen as a diversion. (photo credit thesleuthjournal.com)
IMAGE: A Solar Landscape – An overview of proposed solar
projects throughout Nevada aided by Nevada politician’s like Harry Reid
and the BLM. The Bundy Ranch is close to three such sites (photo credit libertyunyielding.com)In
addition to Reid’s BLM connections, there has been other disturbing
news out of Nevada, implicating Special Agent in Charge of BLM, Daniel P Love
and his alleged interest in the BLM siege at the Bundy Ranch, lying to
the public about the BLM’s illegal killing of cattle, as well as his
unconstitutional stance against the Bundy Family, its property,
residents and supporters. This has been covered extensively by Pete Santilli and his GMN team through various audio conversations and people close to the situation in Bunkerville. This is a side of the story that will undoubtedly continue to develop in weeks to come.MORE INFO ON THAT STAND OFF:
(NaturalNews) Natural News has obtained and is now releasing a secret audio recording of a conversation that took place Thursday, April 10th, between Daniel P. Love, Special Agent in Charge of Region 3 of the BLM and Guerilla Media Network radio host Pete Santilli, serving in the role as a communications liaison between the armed citizen protesters and the BLM.
In this recording, you can hear Daniel Love and Pete Santilli discussing life-and-death confrontations, during which Santilli says Daniel Love and the Sheriff of the county will be arrested if they do not uphold their oath to the United States Constitution.
This audio gives us all a special look inside the twisted mind of BLM Special Agent Dan Love who functions as an agent of government tyranny operating in complete violation of the U.S. Constitution even while telling himself he's backed by the Constitution!
Background: The recording was made during a time when armed citizen protesters were only beginning to arrive, and BLM personnel at the time outnumbered armed citizens. (That situation reversed on Friday when armed citizens vastly outnumbered BLM.)
Click here to hear the audio recording (slightly edited for length, but nothing removed that's inherent to the conversation).
Recording transcript
Note: I typed this in myself (Mike Adams), late on a Saturday night, so I apologize for typos or errors. Doing my best to get this out ASAP for the sake of liberty in America...The first voice you hear in this audio is of Pete Santilli asking, "Where's the cattle?"
The next voice, the lower voice is of Dan Love from BLM. Some of the highlights of the recording, transcribed (this transcript is EDITED for length and continuity, listen to the actual audio if you want every single word).
Santilli: "We want zero conflict. You know, confrontational, nose to nose..." And then later, "Are we going to be here screaming at you, and you're gonna be tasing, are you gonna do that type of confrontation. What we are trying to do is to completely de-escalate, 100%."
Santilli: "What we're going to ask for to de-escalate and to make sure we are not in confrontation with you... we want to let you know that we're going to come here and it's going to be non-negotiable what we believe in, and what we believe is the right thing to do."
Dan Love: "We have two federal court orders, and if you interfere, you will be arrested. If you impede and interfere, you will be taken into custody."
Santilli: "Tell DC Justice [Eric Holder] this is non-negotiable... but if you choose to go face to face and people get hurt, then we are going to hold you personally accountable."
Dan Love: "And I will hold you legally accountable. And I guarantee that the Constitution is on my side and not that side... Your Constitutions aren't decided on the dirt... you can fight that argument from jail."
Santilli: "It's not gonna be a fight, it's gonna be a non-negotiable terms, peacefully. If you bring violence..."
Dan Love: "If you interfere, if you impede, you will be arrested. I don't know how you plan on arresting me, but good luck with that."
Santilli: "There are gonna be some law enforcement officials who are gonna be going to jail."
Dan Love: "Yeah, don't do that. That's not gonna end well for ya. That doesn't happen. And again, I've seen your numbers right now, you'd better hope that 10,000 show up..."
Dan Love: "You're telling me you're gonna show up and arrest officers? That's not gonna happen, Mr. Santilli."
Santilli: "If anyone is unconstitutional, is not following to abide by their oath to the U.S. Constitution, they are going to be arrested including the Sheriff of this county."
Dan Love: "Okay, you start with him, go arrest Mr. Gillespie, and once you accomplish that you come back..."
Santilli: "He will be incarcerated if he fails to uphold his oath to the U.S. Constitution... he will go to jail."
Dan Love: "I'm telling you right now I'm putting YOU on warning as the messenger, if you violate, if you impede, if you interfere with two lawful court orders, you will be prosecuted, you will be arrested."
Santilli: "They are unlawful court orders.... I did not come here to do anything but to give you the opportunity to prevent a scenario where you're going to make a decision to cause harm to people."
Dan Love: "We're lawfully here! Do you see all these signs? You're in an enclosed area, you're on federal land..."
Santilli: "It's not federal land."
Dan Love: "It is federal land. I am positive."
Santilli: "I'll bet you lunch."
Dan Love: "Mr. Santilli, if you were right, I wouldn't have a job. So you know what? Be right. Get it changed, and then I'm happy not to wear this little gold shield..."
Santilli: "Do you know how dangerous it is for you to run around with a gun and a badge with what you just told me?... That you actually believe that you have the Constitution, and the law behind you, and the entitlement and you have a badge and a gun?"
Dan Love: "If you come unlawfully, to impede or interfere, you will be arrested. Non-negotiable."
IMAGE: Reid family crest (photo credit englishgathering.co.uk)The Reid family bloodlineWhen discussing political and financial dynasties in America, it’s important to understand the power structure behind many family names, as it allows one to glean an overall picture of power and control that often stretches beyond US shores and throughout the world.
The Reid family bloodline is certainly no exception, and it’s interesting to note that Harry Reid has been aided throughout his political career by carefully utilizing the ‘rags to riches’ narrative regarding his upbringing. While he may have been brought up from humble beginnings, his family name is nonetheless deeply entrenched with that of the Rockefeller’s and elite society as a whole.
The New York Herald Tribune was owned by the Reid family, and several of their family members have been linked to the powerful secretive group called ‘The Pilgrims Society’. Notable family members include Whitelaw-Reid, Ogden Rodgers-Reid and Ogden Mills-Reid – all publishers and journalists of the well-known American media giant.
The Pilgrims Society has been considered by some as the transatlantic steering body which allow British elites and members of the Royal Family to direct developments in American politics and society, with a list of elite American and British members and patrons – and a membership strictly kept to white Anglo-Saxon protestants. It’s believed to be the backdoor by which European elites are able to wield an undo influence over American affairs.
In understanding some of the deep roots of American hereditary power, another connection that cannot be overlooked, are Pilgrims Society members, the Gould family, as they’ve seemingly played a role in supporting Reid Family enterprises through financial means, and consolidating family power through intermarriage. Throughout history and until today, we’ve seen this kind of family monopoly strategy in the US and Europe, as certain well-to-do families have married into one another. This could vary well be the case in Senator Harry Reid’s life as well, with his marriage to wife Landra Gould.
Not surprisingly, many Pilgrims members are in support of the United Nation’s sustainability projects and have undoubtedly played a role in the creation of the UN’s Agenda 21 sustainable land reform edict. No surprise then that both Edmund de Rothschild and David Rockefeller were listed as notable members of the Pilgrims Society – and during the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 they made their end-run push for the adoption of Agenda 21. The Pilgrims are also said to have heavily infiltrated the Council on Foreign Relations, and other clandestine steering committees and think-tanks.
The Pilgrims Society has also managed to gain influence and control over a chunk of the media operations in the United States and are said to have even had a hand in implementing the CIA’s notorious domestic propaganda program known as Operation Mockingbird through powerful Pilgrims-run media outlets like the New York Times and Time Magazine.
This secretive group has also been linked to the planned 1934 false flag coup on President Franklin D. Roosevelt through the American Liberty League, reportedly backed by many notable wealthy bankers. This concept was partially echoed in the John Frankenheimer feature film, Seven days of May, made in 1964, depicting a secretive plot to overthrow the president. Well respected stalwart and United States Marine Corps major general Smedley Butler alerted a congressional committee about a fascist scheme that was dubbed the Business Plot allegedly to overthrow Roosevelt.
IMAGE (left): ‘Here
and everywhere’ - The Pilgrim Society is secretive group that is said
to connect those in elite circles within Great Britain and the United
States. Other secret groups like Skull & Bones, Quill & Dagger
and Scroll & Key have been said to be many pilgrims. Its first
meeting was at the Carlton Hotel on July 11th 1902, then called the
Pilgrims of Great Britain (photo credit wikispooks.com)As American dynasties go, so do their European counterparts, and the two even intermarry occasionally.
In the case of Reid Family Dynasty, an apparent stronghold has been developed in the state of Nevada, but could be in jeopardy should the Senator and his son’s shady influence pedaling and under the table dealing be given a proper investigation.
It’s safe to say the regular Americans would all be in agreement about just how dirty and corrupt political life has become in Washington DC, and that the insider trading culture is now a clear and present danger – and now poses a direct threat, to the integrity of the US Constitutional Republic.:
MORE FROM JUDGE JEANINE
The story that I’m about to tell you starts with Dirty Harry’s long-time senior aide, his puppet on a string, with virtually no experience at the Bureau of Land Management, who now runs it.Judge Jeanine continues her connecting of Harry’s dirty dealings by explaining why, in her opinion, the Obama BLM backed off of their invasion of the Bundy Ranch, and it has nothing to do with safety.
That bureau today eyeing 116 miles on the border between Texas and Oklahoma, an estimated 90,000 acres that BLM says belongs to the public. So, what’s behind these land grabs? Are they really about protected animals, like tortoises and owls? Or might Dirty Harry be up to something more sinister?
Now, the state of Nevada is essentially desert. For years, Dirty Harry introduced bills transferring federal land to county commissioners to sell to profiteers building homes and shopping malls, not giving a damn about the tortoises, routinely killing them. All sanctioned by BLM. Tortoises be damned.
Now, fast-forward, a new found concern for the tortoise. How dare the cattle graze where the tortoise should roam?
So, Harry Reid, so incensed that armed military type agents come in like storm troopers. The BLM, with no police authority, comes in like military paratroopers to move some cows? You need snipers to move cows, Harry? Really?
And then miraculously, you back off for so called “safety reasons.” So, Harry, why did your guys show up armed to the teeth like they were about to fight al Qaeda if you were so concerned about safety?
In attempting to paint Cliven Bundy as a deadbeat, many a liberal pundit, and Harry Reid himself, have claimed that the raid at the Bundy Ranch was only in relation to grazing fees that Bundy owes the government. But, Judge Jeanine demonstrates that the grazing fees are just a handy excuse.
Folks, a little primer here. If a developer wants to build a mall or a solar energy complex where protected species live, they have to find a “mitigation area” to move the protected species there, in this case, the tortoise. Bottom line, building where there is a protected animal requires that you move that animal somewhere else where it can survive.Harry Reid has been is no stranger to dirty land deals. He has been accused of abusing his position in Congress to profit on numerous occasions. Not missing one piece of the puzzle in the corruption surrounding Harry Reid, Judge Jeanine calls him out for his abuse of power. According to Judge Jeanine, the only safety that Reid was concerned about was that of his reputation.
So, folks, this is bigger than Bundy, whose comments recently, by the way, were outrageous. But, it’s bigger than him. And, herein lies the rub.
Dirty Harry’s son-in-law (she meant is son, Rory Reid) is in a firm that represents a Chinese company that wants to develop the largest solar energy complex in America in, guess where? Nevada. On land occupied by the tortoise. On land that Harry Reid’s son helped locate for the Chinese and helped them purchase at well below market value. Appraisal? Between $28 and $36 million. Purchase price? $4.5 million.
Now, Dirty Harry himself is pals with the owner of that Chinese company, energy tycoon Wang Yu So, who hosted Dirty Harry in China and who Harry featured at one of his events. How to seal the deal? Get rid of those pesky tortoises. Query? Where should the Chinese put the tortoise? Harry and his puppet have an answer. Harry proposes a mitigation area.
The BLM, Bureau of Land Management, actually posts documents on its website designating the mitigation area so that the solar power project can move forward. Unfortunately, that designated mitigation area has cattle on it. So, at first blush, everyone said, “No, this land grab has nothing to do with Harry’s solar energy plant because that was going to be 50 miles away.” But, folks, it has everything to do with the land grab. The land where the cattle grazed was the mitigation area that BLM posted so that the solar power project over here could go forward. BINGO!
In true Dirty Harry mode, you move the cows so we can move the tortoises there, so that Harry’s pal and the Chinese clients of Harry’s son can build the solar energy plant.
Guess what? The BLM deleted the document that was entitled “Cattle Trespass Impact Solar Development.” A little too incriminating you think, Harry?
You know, it’s no surprise that people who represent us in Congress are more concerned with lining their own pockets and the pockets of their family members than they are of representing us. Dirty Harry’s arrogance, his condescension, and his name-calling is only surpassed by his chutzpah.It’s easy for Reid to stand before reporters or even on the floor of the Senate and lie. He faces no repercussions and is rarely even questioned about his claims. He lies with ease because he benefits from these lies. If Judge Jeanine had her way, Reid would be on the witness stand with her as the prosecutor.
Now, Dirty Harry came into Congress with $1.8 million. He made a few hundred thousands of dollars a year. And then reports a net worth of more than $10 million. Harry, here’s what I think.
The questions were getting a little too close for comfort, so you called off your paramilitary raid on the cows using “safety” as an excuse. But, safety had nothing to do with it. Unless, of course, you’re talking about the ‘safety’ of your reputation.
