Brian Krolicki Requests Attorney General Disqualified
The long arm of Harry Reid is still apparently strong-arming republican Senatorial hopeful Brian Krolicki, the current Lt. governor of Nevada. Back in 2008 Krolicki was indicted for felony misappropriations. Today, Krolicki and his lawyers appeared in front of 8th district judge Elissa Cadish in an attempt to get the Nevada attorney General’s office disqualified from prosecuting him.
Back when Brian Krolicki was the Nevada State Treasurer he was responsible for managing the $3.3 billion State College Savings Program. The program earned somewhere around $6 million which Krolicki was required by law to deposit in state accounts. But Krolicki says there is no basis for the charges. He says he was targeted for political reasons by Democratic State AG Catherine Cortez Masto, and that Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was involved.
“All Democratic partisan roads lead to Harry Reid … Reid has a long reach across the country” Krolicki stated when asked about a Masto-Reid connection.
Attorney Margaret Stanish said the AG’s office gave a “green light” to contracts related to the program. She said that Krolicki was merely carrying out his duties as state treasurer. “This is not the stuff of criminal activity.”
It should be obvious to anyone that the major underlying issue is the upcoming election in 2010 for the Nevada Senate seat. Harry Reid intends to win at all costs, even if it means tangling Brian Krolicki up in a quagmire of legal battles that will undoubtedly discredit him. Brian Krolicki was one of a few Republican candidates to run against and possibly beat Reid in 2010. His chances now seem questionable.
Judge Elissa Cadish has yet to render a decision in the matter. Conspiracy theories aside, it seems like a gang-tackle of Republican Brian Krolicki by a team of rampaging Democrats including Masto, the incumbent district court judge Cadish and Harry Reid himself. Just recently, Robert Loux, the director of the Agency of Nuclear Projects, was let off the hook by a commission after giving himself and his five staff members pay raises above those allowed by the Legislature.
Harry Reid’s spokesman Jon Summers said, “Obviously, Bob Loux has done a great job on behalf of the state, he’s devoted a large chunk of his life to fighting the dump.”
It seems you have to be a Democrat to get any love from Harry Reid.
Links to web References:
http://www.examiner.com/a-2006961~Indicted_official_wants_charges_dropped.html
http://www.lvrj.com/blogs/politics/Krolicki_asks_judge_to_oust_AGs_office_from_misappropriation_case.html
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/dec/03/lt-gov-krolicki-indicted/
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/sep/11/loux-not-going-resign-right-away/
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/sep/17/judge-dismisses-civil-suit-remove-loux/
I have to say that Bob Loux and Brian Krolicki aren’t even a comparison. Loux gave raises to himself and his staff, while it seems to me as though Krolicki just screwed up some paperwork. Neither one of them should have been raked over the coals as they were. This comparison definitely shows our laving Harry “flip-flopping” on the issues once again in order to support his constantly changing perspective. The Defeat Reid forums are now open for topics at defeatreid.com. I posted a thread regarding this article here:
http://www.defeatreid.com/showthread.php?tid=10
Anyone reading this article can feel free to input there as well.
I agree that what Krolicki did wasn’t quite as bad as what Loux was charged with. After all, Loux really DID provide raises for himself and his staff (although I’ve heard that he apparently did have that power). The funds Brian Krolicki was managing have all been accounted for; its not like they went missing. Harry Reid’s not shy about changing his spots if needed around a different breed of leopard. Just read about what he did with E-Verify.
I don’t understand the video of Wolf Blitzer asking Harry Reid his reaction to Arlen Specter’s comments about the Minnesota Senatorial Race.
The text says Specter claimed he supported Coleman, yet the video itself says he supports Franken…
The text is more consistent with Reid’s reaction than is the alleged video.
Has the video been altered?
Scary…
TH,
I believe your comment belongs in another post, but its OK for now: Specter flip-flopped in a way. He made it clear that he would have supported Coleman if he (Specter) were still a Republican. But since he he’s turned into a Democrat, he must, and apparently does, support Franken. Remember his comment, related to Blitzer by Reid, that he forgot what team he was on? So basically Specter ended up supporting one, then another.
[...] It seems as though Harry Reid will do anything (including his many infamous flip-floping acts) to help a good buddy who wants to help him. This becomes more and more true as his support with Nevadans lowers more and more. Reid is starting to understand how George W. Bush felt. This cannot be a very comfortable feeling. This unpopularity must be what is forcing Reid to go his various vendettas, such as his actions against Lt. Gov Brian Krolicki, which has pretty much pushed Mr. Krolicki out of the running (as Charlie touched on here: Brian Krolicki Requests Attorney General Disqualified). [...]
[...] Reid. The current picture is looking somewhat different, though. As written about in “Brian Krolicki Requests Attorney General Disqualified” the once promising candidate has been mired in legal battles concerning the Nevada State College [...]
[...] Nevada in response to felony charges of misappropriations. The charges, as discussed in a previous Beat Reid article, centered around the Nevada State College Savings Program designed to help parents save money for [...]
[...] under a microscope. As some Beat Reid authors have expressed in the past, the events surrounding Brian Krolicki (”Brian Krolicki Requests Attorney General Disqualified”) and John Ensign (”Ensign Demoted After Announcing Affair”) not only attempt to destroy [...]
I remember this news item about Brian Krolicki and his office helper
making an error in their bookwork. No money was missing and and the
tort was accepted as an honest mistake. Whatever changed that? Too
much gossip, Ild say.