April 18, 2006 - Nationally Syndicated Radio Host Jerry Doyle Files Formal Ethics Complaint Against Harry Reid

Senate Majority Leader Accused of 'Improper Conduct'

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Las Vegas, NV - Nationally syndicated radio host Jerry Doyle has filed a formal ethics complaint against Senator Harry Reid of Nevada investigating a connection between Reid's intervention on behalf of certain Native American tribes and contributions made by these tribes to Reid's tax-exempt political group, the Searchlight Leadership Fund. "With all the free trips, free drinks, private jets, and an explosion of lobbying on Capitol Hill, the problem with impropriety, corruption, political favors and bribery in Washington, D.C. has become so obvious it's hard to see," said Doyle. Doyle has filed this complaint in his personal capacity as a citizen of the State of Nevada.

In 2000 Doyle ran for Congress as a Republican for the people of California. He also campaigned for President George Bush in the lead up to his second term in the White House. It was in 2005 however that Jerry gave up his affiliation with the Republican party and became an Independent. "I didn't leave the party," Doyle said. "The party has left me." He now describes himself as an Independent Conservative. The Jerry Doyle Show is ranked the 9th largest radio talk show in America, according to Talkers Magazine, and airs on over 225 stations nationwide.

The ethics complaint was researched and compiled by the Washington watchdog group Judicial Watch. In the nine page document Doyle alleges, and provides documentation, that Reid intervened on behalf of Native American Tribes from several states including California, Michigan, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Also, that Reid consequently received between approximately $40,000 - $66,000 in Abramoff-related donations from four different tribes in those States between 2001 and 2004. Doyle's complaint also noted that Senator Reid has refused to return any of the money that he received from those tribes while serving on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee.

Continuing his efforts to fight corruption on Capitol Hill, Doyle has also posted a letter on his website, www.JerryDoyle.com where listeners of The Jerry Doyle Show are able to download, sign, send, and help Doyle "call out" corrupt members of Congress. In the letter, Doyle said that the pattern of lobbyists and campaign contributors to influencing policy "has more than the appearance of impropriety; this has the look of outright graft by our Congressmen - an absolute betrayal of the trust of the American people." Doyle added, "We're living in an age of a culture of secrecy in our government, and we at the Jerry Doyle Show are sick of it."

The Jerry Doyle Show is an eclectic mix of politics, pop-culture and lifestyles airs live Monday - Friday Noon to 3:00 p.m. PST and 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. EST.