Feinstein Caught in Conflict of Interest on Military Contracts

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[zendari]

San Jose, Calif., January 25, 2007 -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s husband was a major beneficiary of military appropriations blessed by a subcommittee that she headed, Metro Newspapers reports this week.

Feinstein (D-Calif.) acted in a conflict of interest while approving billions of dollars in military construction expenditures for the global war on terror, according to an investigative story by award-winning journalist Peter Byrne. The story was published jointly in the North Bay Bohemian and Metro Silicon Valley weekly newspapers this week. Research assistance was provided by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute.

Following Feinstein’s participation at the legislative level, large contracts were awarded to two firms — URS Corporation and Perini Corporation — that were controlled by an investment group headed by the senator’s spouse, financier Richard C. Blum.

Byrne's investigation reveals the following details about Feinstein’s service as a member of the United States Senate’s Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee (MILCON).

[parthian shot]

You are so right Duke....

What is going on? Are the Republicans afraid to call the Dem's on their scandalous land deals, phony cattle futures, illegal defense contracts, murders, document thief's, illegal contributions, election fraud, and on, and on, and on. When does somebody stand up and put a stop to all of this????

Are the Republicans just pansies or what??

[AmeriBrit]

Our group here have spent a lot of time and energy phoning, e-mailing, snail mail, faxing, calling newspapers etc., and are met with the same result everytime.....a deafening silence.

[swheats]

DIFI's gotta be ready for some time home with the family. It's amazing how these representatives are always 'looking out for the little people' and becoming billionaires in the process.

[Goldie Lurks]

"She is a dem-they never get held accountable."

That is the truth...Still waiting to hear news of *cold cash* William Jefferson LA DEM...Was he was cleared of ethics violations when I blinked?

[AmeriBrit]

She was just re-elected.

[swheats]

There had to have been massive voter fraud.

[Rembrandt]

Feinstein is to certain privileged military contractors what Harry Reid is to privileged Indian tribes.

None of the above will ever appear in your MSM of choice.

[AmeriBrit]

No-one ran against her.

[SierraWasp]

How do you expect them to drain such a swamp when they're up to their own asses in allegators???

[AmeriBrit]

It makes my blood boil everytime I think of it or come across it in my files.

[Carry_Okie]

She'll skate.

It's not as if it's the first time: Chocolate Mountain.

[swheats]

No one ran against her! How crazy is that. Have we all become zombies.

[SierraWasp]

Well what do you expect of Norry? He also believes in all that dumbass man-made Globular Worming and Chupacarbras and out of body experiences and rubber aliens instead of robber aliens... honestly!!! What???

URS has an office out near the junction of I-5 and I-80. At least their sign is on the building...

[Political Junkie Too]

The story was published jointly in the North Bay Bohemian and Metro Silicon Valley weekly newspapers this week.

What? You mean they scooped the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times?

Expect the Left to discredit the story by claiming that these "newspapers" are the equivalent of local advertisement weeklies.

-PJ

[originalbuckeye]

Her 'conflicts of interest' go back a long way. Remember when she apologized for the USA about the Chinese fighter jet hitting our surveillance plane? There was no way our plane could have avoided the little jet. I heard it likened to a semi trying to get out of the way of a sports car. Anyway, DiFi apologized to the Chinese when GWB wouldn't. Surprise,surprise, DiFi's husband had lots of business interests in China. Nothing like selling out your country to make money!

[hedgetrimmer]

Oh OK. Let corruption range!

[Edit35]

She needs to resign immediately if what they said in the article is true t

Are you kidding?

The lamestream media will find a way to blame this on the Republicans.

And you know what is even more sad.

The Republicans will probably ACCEPT the blame!!!

Seriously, I am in the news reporting business and I have never seen such hostility and outright hatred of all things Republican by the mainstream reporting newspapers and TV organizations.

[CyberAnt]

Don't count on it.

And .. where was this story before she got RE-ELECTED ..??

[SunkenCiv]

self-ping

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: George Norry.

Well I figure he's just one of them old-time FDR Democrats; but, I've had it with all the Bush-bashing -- and by inference, America bashing at least in the ears of our enemies.

There are delayed broadcasts of daytime talk available so I rarely listen depending upon the occasional guest.