Do you have a picture of Sheehans tent?
"This is NOT the home of a party proletarion worker"
DiFi's hubby is an investment banker, on the board of several companies and obviously makes a few bucks.
Richard C. Blum
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Richard C. Blum is an investment banker and the husband of United States Senator from California Dianne Feinstein. A founder of the American Himalayan Foundation, he is a managing partner Blum Capital Partners, LP, an investment firm, and has a net worth of over $50 million. [1]
He attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his bachelor's degree and an MBA in 1959.
On March 12, 2002, Blum was appointed by California Governor Gray Davis to a 12-year term as a Regent of the University of California.
Blum serves on the boards of the following companies:
CB Richard Ellis (Chairman) [2]
Newbridge Capital, LLC (co-Chairman) [3]
Korea First Bank [4]
Northwest Airlines
Playtex Products [5]
Glenborough Realty Trust [6]
Kinetic Concepts (jointly owned with Fremont Partners) [7]
In 1992, Feinstein was fined $190,000 for failing to disclose that Blum had guaranteed nearly $3 million in loans to fund her 1990 bid for California governor. In 1997, a Los Angeles Times article stated that while Feinstein was campaigning in the Senate for a lifting of trade sanctions against the People's Republic of China, Blum was managing millions of dollars of investments in Chinese businesses through his firm Newbridge Capital. Following a public debate about whether a conflict of interest existed, Blum announced that he would donate all of his profits from his China investments to charity. Feinstein backers declared that most investment managers have exposure to China and that the wealthy Senator is highly unlikely to have financial motivations behind her political positions.
Blum has a strong interest in Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism. In 1981 he attempted to climb Mount Everest from the Tibetan side with Sir Edmund Hillary. He is the founder of the American Himalayan Foundation, which has given millions of dollars to build hospitals and schools in Tibet and Nepal.