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Feinstein resigns subcommittee post...
http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=36969
Billion dollar scam between Sen. Feinstein and husband ignored by MSM...
http://www.metroactive.com/metro/03.21.07/dianne-feinstein-resigns-0712.html
Why isn't AG Gonzales investigating the Feinstein-Blum connection? Is this what the AG witchhunt is all about...one investigation to stop another?...Joe Webb
"When it comes to money grubbing it's hard to beat the Democrats...
Democrats, if elected, promised to end the culture of corruption. “Cold Cash” Jefferson is still a member of the Homeland Security Committee. Reid is still making land deals. And then there is this: Dianne Feinstein resigns-..."
Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee.
Feinstein was chairperson and ranking member of MILCON for six years, during which time she had a conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum's ownership of two major defense contractors, who were awarded billions of dollars for military construction projects approved by Feinstein.
…it was becoming clear that her subcommittee left grievously wounded veterans to rot while her family was profiting from the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. It turns out that Blum also holds large investments in companies that were selling medical equipment and supplies and real estate leases—often without the benefit of competitive bidding—to the Department of Veterans Affairs, even as the system of medical care for veterans collapsed on his wife's watch.
As of December 2006, according to SEC filings and http://www.fedspending.org/, three corporations in which Blum's financial entities own a total of $1 billion in stock won considerable favor from the budgets of the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs:
Boston Scientific Corporation: $17.8 million for medical equipment and supplies; 85 percent of contracts awarded without benefit of competition.
Kinetic Concepts Inc.: $12 million, medical equipment and supplies; 28 percent noncompetitively awarded.
CB Richard Ellis: The Blum-controlled international real estate firm holds congressionally funded contracts to lease office space to the Department of Veterans Affairs. It also is involved in redeveloping military bases turned over to the private sector.
The resignation is fact. The facts regarding bids, profits, contracts, etc. are not in dispute. Feinstein and her husband Blum made a ton of money.
Is Feinstein concerned about ethics violations in government? Sure she is. She expects a resignation from government service any day now. No - not for herself, from A.G. Gonzales. Because what he did was so much worse than allowing her husband's companies to sell "medical equipment and supplies and real estate leases—often without the benefit of competitive bidding—to the Department of Veterans Affairs, even as the system of medical care for veterans collapsed" on Feinstein's watch..."
x-cerpt from Living the Grand Life...article by Gene Kinsey...3.29.07
Husband Richard C. Blum's SEC filing:
http://www.secinfo.com/dSKXx.23z.htm
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