Posted on 04/20/2009 8:12:39 PM PDT by Steelfish
Senate husband's firm cashes in on crisis
Feinstein sought $25 billion for agency that awarded contract to spouse
By Chuck Neubauer THE WASHINGTON TIMES Tuesday, April 21, 2009
On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband's real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms.
Mrs. Feinstein's intervention on behalf of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was unusual: the California Democrat isn't a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs with jurisdiction over FDIC; and the agency is supposed to operate from money it raises from bank-paid insurance payments - not direct federal dollars.
Documents reviewed by The Washington Times show Mrs. Feinstein first offered Oct. 30 to help the FDIC secure money for its effort to stem the rise of home foreclosures.
Her letter was sent just days before the agency determined that CB Richard Ellis Group (CBRE) - the commercial real estate firm that her husband Richard Blum heads as board chairman - had won the competitive bidding for a contract to sell foreclosed properties that FDIC had inherited from failed banks.
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A corrupt California liberal? No, I don’t believe it.
And I’ll try to act surprised when she gets re-elected...:(
~~Bump!
she needs to resign...
bttt
let the little people eat cake, and pass the grey poupon
hasn’t her husband been getting government contracts for many years?
Time to take to the streets- This b*tch needs to resign now! This is a flagrant rape of taxpayers at a time of a major economic crisis with millions out of work and out of homes. Is there any outrage left? Have we lost our republic?
Yes. She has pulled this crap before.
This is the most blatant form of taxpayer theft. If there was outrage over AIG bonuses, this deal stinks to the high heavens. Goodness gracious, this is worse than third world bribery at its lowest! To the people of California: “Hang Down Your Head In Shame.” Can we recall this skunk?
In much more important news, Sarah Palin’s daughter’s baby’s father’s mother claim that her son’s baby’s mother’s mother will not allow her enough alone time with aforementioned baby.
Much, much more important. Move along.
She will be rewarded, ... again, IMO.
Where the hell is conservative talk radio on this? If Sarah Palin had done something like this as a US senator, we’d be seeing this round the clock on TV and it would be on front pages on the LA Times. We now don’t even have a decent state newspaper. What have these watchdogs gotten us?
There aren’t enough hours in the day for Rush Limbaugh to cover all the scandals.
Mark
True- But this is Grand Theft in broad daylight of Taxpayers trying to make ends meet. If the RNC is not going to run ads on this and change public opinion they are worse than useless.
I.Want.These.Crooks.Locked.Up
I’m going to coin a new word. Felocracy.
It'll sink her real fast.
Be sure to let your congress and legislatures know about this.
JIngle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way.... Its CHRISTMAS in Washington!!! Ho ho ho...
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The only useful attack that can be launched on dishonest/negligent media is to dry up their income.
Hence,
First, write letters to advertisers informing them of your intention to NOT partake of their goods or services due to their financial support of biased media.
Second, discontinue offensive subscriptions.
These actions will not kill off all crap media. There are some that will just suck up the losses and continue due to other financial support - example being CNN or anything funded by that Soros prick.
But once enough alleged journalists are out of work, perhaps a few will revert back to some degree of honesty and get rehired by a legitimate news organization.
You are correct-boycotts are the answer. The publishers lack of credibility is amplified and they lose revenue. But we need an “organized” boycott. For immediate impact, individual protests mean very little.
DiFi is doing what Pelosi did? How terrible — how normal for a dimocrat.
Vote them out!
Point well taken but nonetheless,
I’m still a big fan of death by a thousand cuts.
Shame and disgraced with criminal inquiries is the way to drive down their popularity as a precursor to voting them out.
We would be better off with cats in government.
So this is what they mean by “shovel ready”?
I don’t need to hear this tonight. I just learned today that my daughter’s braces will cost $293/month, we wanted to start my son in guitar lessons for $90/month, and dh’s business has been slow this month. I can take a little comfort in the many verses in Psalms about how the wicked prosper for just a time, but I’d like to prosper a little more right now.
Military procurement, medicare, real estate.
Blum seems to be right ahead of wifey Feinstein with his pick-up truck to cash in on millions.
I’m sure it’s just coincidence. /s
I feel ya. We found out how much the daughter’s braces would cost the same month her dad (my ex) lost his job. It broke my heart to tell her we have to wait a few years until everything is stable.
when is she up for re-election?
We need to start a list. The Democrat Culture of Corruption list. The dem corruptocrats make the republican ones look like two bit pick-pockets...lol.
BTTT
Interestingly enough, the Feinstiens have a financial interest in a fish canning plant there?
I thought that Pelousy was the one with the canning interest. As if it matters they are 2 peas in one seriously diseased pod.
Two for the slammer.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Sorry, I think you're right, and I'm wrong. I get the two of them mixed up. They're both criminals from SF.
Mark
Sorry, I think you’re right, and I’m wrong. I get the two of them mixed up. They’re both criminals from SF.
I know what you mean it is sort of like looking in a septic system you know what you are going to see and it is not going to be pretty.
Shame on you DiFi!
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