Here’s some more reading I just came across
DiFi and Blum: a Marriage Marinated in Money
http://www.counterpunch.org/2010/02/26/difi-and-blum-a-marriage-marinated-in-money/
http://web.archive.org/web/20041223112629/http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3ac099473c1f.htm