Harry and Rory Reid working with the Chinese Energy giant ENN is an undisputable fact. Now posters have been claiming that this land deal and project bit the dust but I haven't seen a link yet and I'm too busy working on the Eastern Ukraine right now to track down that information.
But nonetheless the fact that public land was sold with the Reid's involvement to ENN for pennies on the dollar is true.
From Reuters:
U.S. Senator Reid, son combine for China firm's desert plant
By Marcus Stern
WASHINGTON Fri Aug 31, 2012 5:06am EDT
Now the part about the sale of land from the article is here and talk about a sweet deal for the Chinese.YIKES!
In December, Clark County commissioners voted unanimously to sell up to 9,000 acres of public land to the subsidiary at pennies on the dollar.
The deal spurred local controversy. Separate appraisals valued the land at $29.6 million and $38.6 million. The commission agreed to sell it to ENN for $4.5 million.
Harry's documented involvement:
Now, questions surrounding family ties are flaring again in Nevada around the Senate majority leader. He and his oldest son, Rory, are both involved in an effort by a Chinese energy giant, ENN Energy Group, to build a $5 billion solar farm and panel manufacturing plant in the southern Nevada desert.
Reid has been one of the project's most prominent advocates, helping recruit the company during a 2011 trip to China and applying his political muscle on behalf of the project in Nevada.
His son, a lawyer with a prominent Las Vegas firm that is representing ENN, helped it locate a 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) desert site that it is buying well below appraised value from Clark County, where Rory Reid formerly chaired the county commission.
And believe it or not, Rory and Harry have denied discussing anything about this deal.
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's Rory!
Rory Reid acknowledged representing ENN at both the county and state levels since January. He declined to discuss the project otherwise.
Two months after Harry Reid's China trip, Lionel Sawyer registered ENN Mohave Energy LLC as an American subsidiary of the Chinese company. The firm negotiated with the county to buy the land rather than lease it, as the county's staff had recommended.
U.S. Senator Reid, son combine for China firm's desert plant | Reuters