[diegocg]

Harry Reid funded the "Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program" with 22$ millions per year from 2007 to 2012 to research UFOs.

And most of that money went to Robert Bigelow. Which happens to be friend of Harry Reid, is interested in UFOs and has donated money to Reid's campaigns (what a coincidence!)

But the program was secret. Because, you know, aliens. And national security. Until its existence was revealed in 2017 - the year Reid retired from politics.

I remember thinking how blatant and ingenious this corruption scheme was when I first heard of it. He gave money to his friends and even when it's publicly known nobody associates it with corruption because of "aliens"

[swebs]

If its that open-and-shut, why hasn't he been arrested?

[bhk]

There's no law against a member of Congress introducing or voting for legislation that benefits friends or donors. If there were, they'd all be in jail.

[ALittleLight]

Because the legal system is designed and run by people in power and people in power aren't interested in prosecuting their own crimes.