Culture of Corruption Strikes Dem Leader Harry Reid

I had a story yesterday about the thriving casino industry in Las Vegas, but they're not the only ones making big money:

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid collected a $1.1 million windfall on a Las Vegas land sale even though he hadn't personally owned the property for three years, property deeds show.

In the process, Reid did not disclose to Congress an earlier sale in which he transferred his land to a company created by a friend and took a financial stake in that company, according to records and interviews.

The Nevada Democrat's deal was engineered by Jay Brown, a longtime friend and former casino lawyer whose name surfaced in a major political bribery trial this summer and in other prior organized crime investigations. . . . Reid hung up the phone when questioned about the deal during an AP interview last week.

Uh-oh, Harry. A good Mormon boy like you shouldn't have those kinds of friends. You can read the whole sordid affair here.