A former campaign manager, Donald Williams, for Senator Reid made some controversial statements about Senator's Reid. In order to back these statements, Mr. Williams sat for a polygraph test and released the results for public consumption. The test was performed by James Hannah, of the firm Eye Agency Investigations. Mr. Hannah stated that Mr. Williams was being truthful when answer the questions that were administered.
So here's the comments: Williams claimed that on two occasions he delivered to Reid at least $10,000 in cash from Mustang Ranch owner Joe Conforte as early as 1970, during Reids lieutenant governor campaign. The lie detection test, dated May 30, confirms the veracity of Williams statements that Reid built part of his campaign war chest with his ties to Conforte. The Reid-Conforte relationship began when Reid asked his campaign manager to meet the brothel owner, Williams said. The Mustang Ranch operator was known in political circles as a tracker of Nevadas races and generous donor. Reid implored me to take this meeting because he did not want to be spotted huddling with Conforte. I agreed, Williams said. The men discussed politics at a restaurant, until Conforte cut the meeting short and asked Williams to step outside. Conforte opened his cars trunk to reveal a pile of absentee ballots. Each was marked for Reid, he told Williams. The brothel owner then directed the campaign manager to deliver a thick envelope to the politician. I gave it to Reid the next day, Williams said this week. He opened it in front of me. It was full of hundred-dollar bills. Reid won the election. No law prohibited Conforte from contributing to Reid, as long as he pledged the money toward his statewide office campaign and reported the amount. But Reid did neither, Williams said, when the young Democrat from Searchlight abandoned his gubernatorial race to run for U.S. Senate four years later. Reid spent the money on his federal office run in 1974, according to his former manager. Reid pledged none of the funds would be co-mingled, Williams said. Reid lied. Williams recalled when a panicked Reid phoned him and requested he meet with the brothel owner again. The evening ended with Williams helping Conforte count $10,000 in his double-wide trailer at the Mustang Ranch. Conforte had earmarked every dollar for Reid. The full article is here: http://yourpoliticsnews.com/2010/08/18/exclusive-pimp-paid-for-first-harry-reid-campaign-former-manager-says-takes-lie-detector-to-prove-claims/ It contains some more background info, links to pdf's of the lie detector test, and some political commentary. Unfortunately, it does not say why Mr. Williams is now coming forward with the information or have any comments from Senator Reid. There are some other entries at the site about the same story and as time permits, I may check them out. Also, I don't know anything about the site. First time I have ever visited it. I just posted the link and info since I found it interesting and thought others would too. Enjoy. J - Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny - Thomas Jefferson o ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:325632 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
