And it knows no party boundaries.

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.

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The complex dealings allowed Reid to transfer ownership, legal liability and some tax consequences to Brown’s company without public knowledge, but still collect a seven-figure payoff nearly three years later.

Reid hung up the phone when questioned about the deal during an AP interview last week.

Usually the AP would be magnanimous in the way it describes the ending of a conversation.  For them to say Reid “hung up the phone” tells me that the end of the conversation was alarmingly abrupt.  People don’t do that unless they are hiding something.

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