Cenk Uygur
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Harry Reid Legally Bribed To Give Corporate Handouts
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December 24, 2015
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Republicans aren’t the only corrupt party in Washington. Democrat Harry Reid recently snuck a loophole into the omnibus bill for his campaign donors. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"In one of the more straightforward cases of influence peddling we've ever seen, Harry Reid reportedly solicited contributions for his Super PAC -- which, by law, he's supposed to have nothing to do with -- during a May 2013 meeting with private equity CEO David Bonderman.
Bonderman quickly picked up on Reid's not-so-subtle hints. Bonderman, his wife, and firms under his control contributed well over $1 million to Reid's Senate Majority PAC in 2014. In what we're sure is a completely unrelated coincidence, Reid pushed to insert two pieces of language that would directly benefit Bonderman's businesses into the 2015 omnibus. What else is there to say?”*
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