:"Kevin Reid and Beattie Media director [[Alex Barr]] met 'Anthony James', an Observer reporter posing as a businessman, earlier this month. 'James' said he represented US investors who hoped to land lucrative government contracts to finance new schools and hospitals. The meeting, at Edinburgh's Balmoral hotel, was secretly taped and filmed."
==Keeping it in the family part 2: How Reid used Using public money to pay his son for campaign work==
In January 2000, ''The Observer'' revealed that Reid had