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FBI Blocked In Harry Reid Corruption Probe
Utah state prosecutors have received accusations of wrongdoing and gathered evidence in a wide-ranging corruption scandal involving Majority Leader Harry Reid and rising Republican Senator Mike Lee. However, as The Washinton Times reports, FBI agents have been thwarted in their efforts to launch a full federal investigation by the Justic Department. "DOJ risks creating the perception of a cover-up," warned one senior FBI official.
FBI agents working alongside Utah state prosecutors in a wide-ranging corruption investigation have uncovered accusations of wrongdoing by two of the U.S. Senate’s most prominent figures — Majority Leader Harry Reid and rising Republican Sen. Mike Lee — but the Justice Department has thwarted their bid to launch a full federal investigation.
The probe, conducted by one Republican and one Democratic state prosecutor in Utah, has received accusations from an indicted businessman and political donor, interviewed other witnesses and gathered preliminary evidence such as financial records, Congressional Record statements and photographs that corroborate some aspects of the accusations, officials have told The Washington Times and ABC News.
But the Justice Department’s public integrity section — which normally handles corruption cases involving elected figures — rejected FBI agents’ bid to use a federal grand jury and subpoenas to determine whether the accusations are true and whether any federal crimes were committed by state and federal officials.
The information involving Mr. Reid and Mr. Lee is not fully developed but centers on two primary issues:
Whether both or either politician sought or received money or other benefits from donors and/or fundraisers in connection with doing political favors or taking official actions.
Whether Mr. Lee provided accurate information when he bought, then sold a Utah home for a big loss to a campaign contributor and federal contractor, leaving his mortgage bank to absorb large losses.
“There are allegations, but they are very serious allegations and they need to be looked at by somebody,” Sim Gill, a Democrat who is the elected chief prosecutor in Salt Lake County, told The Times. “If true, or even if asserted, they truly should be investigated and put to rest, or be confirmed.”
Paging Frank Underwood?
Spokesmen for both senators denied their bosses engaged in any wrongdoing and said the lawmakers were unaware of the investigations.
But the rabbit-hole goes deeper...
The investigative efforts have been further complicated by the fact that Mr. Reid worked to get Mr. Lee’s chief counsel, David Barlow, confirmed in 2011 as the U.S. attorney in Salt Lake City. That action — a Democratic Senate leader letting a Republican be named to a key prosecutor’s position in the Obama administration — raised many eyebrows and angered some Democrats.
Subsequently, the entire office of federal prosecutors in Utah was forced to recuse itself from the corruption case after questions surfaced about a conflict of interest involving one prosecutor and a subject of the probe. After the recusal, state prosecutors secured a court order transferring the federal evidence gathered up to that point to their possession.
However, it appears, the local FBI office got a tap on the shoulder...
People familiar with the probe said both FBI agents and local investigators have been frustrated for months by the Justice Department’s inaction on the initial accusations and evidence against the two senators, and those concerns were recently elevated to FBI headquarters.
The special agent in charge of the Utah office was summoned earlier this month to Washington to meet with senior FBI officials, and the bureau’s Utah office has been instructed that the FBI agents working the case may only assist in the state probe and cannot pursue federal criminal investigative leads — unless Justice finally approves a corruption probe.
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“But in this case, DOJ risks creating the perception of a cover-up rather than let agents use the normal tools and follow the evidence wherever it leads — Republican, Democrat, Senate or not,” the senior FBI official said.
Ya think!?
“Based upon what we know today, we were surprised that the DOJ ran away,” he said.
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I have always been a little skeptical about Lee since I read about his background. He comes from a politcally powerful Utah family and grew up in DC. Being Mormoms and both in DC his family was friends with Harry Reid's family. He has known Harry Reid since he was a child. He parades around and talks like a conservative, but he is true Washington insider and friends with Harry Reid.
Justice will be swerved!
Yep, both Mormons. Protected by Hatch, a high-ranked bishop. The church of Antioch has been calling out Mormonism as a cult for decades.
We need the Legion of Doom more than ever now to defeat the Just-Us League!
There are a few others who are feeling the heat too. They will try to block this as best they can but I have a feeling it's a bit late.
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Who said...
“I think it is much easier to be a good member of the Church and a Democrat than a good member of the Church and a Republican.”
You guessed it.
Whose wife found a bomb strapped to their family station wagon in 1981?
You guessed it.
Who went from working with the D.C. Capitol Police to the Nevada Gaming Commission to Senate Majority Leader?
Right again. How do you do that?
http://tradewithdave.com/?p=18291
Probably the best tidbit of history is that Mormons used to rob & kill settlers by the 100's heading to the West, but they always managed to get the Injuns blamed for the killings.
Lot's of famous story's north side of the Grand Canyon, not far from the new NSA HQ, ... people going north/south had to cross the Colorado River on a raft going to Flagstaff Arizona, and the Mormons would kill them routinely steal their shit and head back to UTAH, and blame the Injuns.
Another funny story is PROSTITUTION is illegal in UTAH, but LEGAL in NEVADA and the MORMON church owns all the casinos and whorehouses in NEVADA, so mormon boyz' have to drive over the border for pussy, ... classic act to make sure their own women ain't whores, but all else its all good.
#1 recruits for CIA/NSA is mormons
Why? YOU might ask, because mormon boys all do 2+ years missionary abroad, and learn foreign language and great cover for CIA black/wet op's.
Ask yourself why NSA HQ in JOO-TAH? Cuz everyone wants to live near family.
All controlled by ZION, ... never forget that every Casino whorehouse in the USA came from Meyer Lansky mafia, went to Vegas, came from CUBA, and then took over NEVADA, but all ran from JOO-TAH, under the thumb of ZION,
Hell even the national parks of JOO-TAH are called ZION.