Writing for The Hill on April 30, 2007, David Keene described what appeared to be a clear case of massive corruption on the part of Democratic Senator Dianne Fienstein.
http://thehill.com/...
If this is true (I have seen no evidence to the contrary), then Feinstein belongs in prison for far longer than Duke Cunningham, for she channeled far more money to her husband (up to a billion dollars) than Cunningham ever did to his lobbyists.
Is this why Feinstein caved to the Republican bum's rush on their FISA conspiracy? Was she doing it to help her own husband's war profiteering? Or was she caving because they're blackmailing her?
I would dearly like to know if Feinstein is a crook. Maybe she's not; maybe there is an innocent explanation for what appears to be a massive, felonious conflict of interest when she was on the Senate's military appropriations committee.
I would urge the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate this matter with all due haste and thoroughness. Unfortunately, I feel like Democrats in congress do when they urge Bush's DOJ to investigate Boener.
In other words, yah right, I'll believe it when I see it.
[While Feinstein was on the military appropriations committee] the two companies, URS of San Francisco and the Perini Corporation of Framingham, Mass., were controlled by Feinstein’s husband, Richard C. Blum, and were awarded a combined total of over $1.5 billion in government business thanks in large measure to her subcommittee. That’s a lot of money even here in Washington.
Interestingly, she left the subcommittee in late 2005 at about the same time her husband sold his stake in both companies. Their combined net worth increased that year with the sale of the two companies by some 25 percent, to more than $40 million.
Doesn't sound too good, does it?