Look in the dictionary besides Chutspah, and you'll see a picture of Harry Reid--and he isn't even Jewish.

Along with Nancy Pelosi, Reid thought he could tag the Republicans with "culture of corruption" early this year. Even then, his own ethical problems were both wide and deep.

Reid's one-hand-washes-the-other politics has left a trail of slime stretching back to his days in the Nevada legislature. His sons are have followed in the family business, and its not politics.

Even as he was trying to leverage Abramoff for political advantage, he had $66.000.00 in the coffers directly related to his deals with Abramoff, his company and/or his clients.

Now, another scam surfaces.

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid collected a $1.1 million windfall on a Las Vegas land sale even though he hadn’t owned the property for three years, property deeds show.

The Nevada Democrat’s deal was engineered by Jay Brown, a longtime friend and former casino lawyer whose name surfaced in a political bribery trial this summer and in previous organized-crime investigations. He has never been charged with wrongdoing — except for a 1981 federal securities complaint that was settled out of court.

Land deeds obtained by The Associated Press show:

•The deal began in 1998 when Reid bought undeveloped residential property on Las Vegas’ booming outskirts for about $400,000. Reid bought one lot outright and a second parcel jointly with Brown.

•In 2001, Reid sold the land for the same price to a limited-liability corporation created by Brown. The senator did not disclose the sale on his annual public ethics report or tell Congress that he had a stake in Brown’s company. He continued to report to Congress that he personally owned the land.

•After getting local officials to rezone the property for a shopping center, Brown’s company sold the land in 2004 to other developers, and Reid took $1.1 million of the proceeds, nearly tripling his investment. Reid reported it to Congress as a personal land sale.

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 in an interview last week.

Not to worry, he just "broke Senate rules", nothing really serious in pocketing over a million dollars by using your political influence to help your friends.

I predict this will get no play in the media, but there are those of us out here patiently accumulating these stories, biding our time. Reid has destroyed himself--he just doesn't know it yet.