Posted on 01/27/2022 4:21:03 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Peter Schweizer’s new book Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win tells the story of how Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) husband Richard Blum was part owner of a Chinese firm that allegedly sold computers with spyware chips to the U.S. military. The military has never been able to calculate how much sensitive data these computers allowed China to steal.
A hefty chapter of Red-Handed is devoted to tracking Feinstein’s long and expensive relationship with Communist China.
In a total coincidence that could not possibly have been related in any way to Feinstein’s friendship with the tyrants of Beijing, her husband did a great deal of lucrative business with Chinese companies, including entities run by the Communist government and linked to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
One of those deals saw Blum becoming a major investor in a computer company that was founded by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), an institution tied to both the Chinese government and the PLA. The company was originally called Legend, but is better known by its second name, Lenovo.
Lenovo grew into a major player in the worldwide computer marketplace after it acquired IBM’s line of personal computer products in 2005. Lenovo’s deal to buy IBM’s business included $350 million in investments from three American private equity firms. One of them was Richard Blum’s Newbridge Capital.
Some lawmakers worried Lenovo’s purchase of IBM’s personal computer line could jeopardize U.S. national security and transfer advanced American computer technology to China. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who sat on the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time, was not one of them.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Their house sits just below the Gettys two houses on Billionaires row, nice view of the Golden Gate Bridge and across to Sausalito, Tiburon and over to Alcatraz.
You, you mean, these DC politicians are on the take? Crooked? Bleeding foreign lobbyists for cash and then selling out America?
I am shocked. I always looked up to them.
Her salary $174,000 as of 2021.
In wealthypersons.com ——
Аѕ оf 2019, Dіаnnе wаѕ thе ѕесоnd wеаlthіеѕt ѕеrvіng Ѕеnаtоr іn thе Unіtеd Ѕtаtеѕ. Ѕhе hаѕ а nеt wоrth оf $90 mіllіоn аѕ оf Јаnuаrу 2022. Тhе mаіn ѕоurсе оf hеr wеаlth іѕ nоt hеr роlіtісаl саrееr, but іt соmеѕ frоm Вlum Саріtаl, а соmраnу fоund іn 1975 bу hеr huѕbаnd. Ѕhе hаѕ mоrе thаn $5 mіllіоn іn vаrіоuѕ mаrkеt ассоuntѕ. Dіаnnе hаѕ аlѕо іnvеѕtеd а lоt, wіth оvеr $10 mіllіоn bеіng іnvеѕtеd іn а blіnd truѕt.
RE: Billionaires row.....
Ah, my old neighborhood. I haven’t had time to get back there in a while. They say you can’t go home again, anyway.
Mitch the turtle makes money off the Chinese as well.
He needs to go also.
The real news is...who’s surprised?
10 Sept 2018: Washington Examiner: The Spy Who Drove Her: Dianne Feinstein and Chinese Espionage
by Ethan Epstein
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/the-spy-who-drove-her-dianne-feinstein-and-chinese-espionage
Federal Power encourages the will to live in employees and elected officials.
“Those peons would be lost—lost, I tell you!—without ME!”
Denigrating whores.
In a sane country both of them would be executed. After a fair trial.
NO wonder she had a Chinese chauffeur for MANY years.
Is that wrong?
“In a sane country both of them would be executed. After a fair trial.”
May they have the same fate as Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu.
“In a sane country both of them would be executed. After a fair trial.”
May they have the same fate as Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu.
If it had been a Republican, there would have been three tv movies and a big Hollywood blockbuster on it.
Agree wholeheartedly- I remember being stunned that they were executed on Christmas Day. Man, were they hated!
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