Feinstein's Husband Gets Rail Contract (San Francisco, Berkeley: real estate, 2013, foreclosed)

[sunshine7793]

Not exactly an unbiased source, but so what? Facts are facts. How will the Democrats defend this?

http://crazifornia.com/2013/04/16/di...gh-speed-rail/

[Kafkaesque]

So, it looks bad? A man who is part owner of a Company and is not otherwise prohibited from having employment himself submitted a low bid and won the contract, as part of a Consortium. Is there any fraud alleged in the bidding process or anything illegal? Or just because it's Feinstein's husband that's the whole problem?

Do you have an unbiased source?

[Fontucky]

Originally Posted by sunshine7793

Facts are facts.

Like the Fox News headline from that immigrants on juries story you posted?

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by Kafkaesque

So, it looks bad? A man who is part owner of a Company and is not otherwise prohibited from having employment himself submitted a low bid and won the contract, as part of a Consortium. Is there any fraud alleged in the bidding process or anything illegal? Or just because it's Feinstein's husband that's the whole problem?

Do you have an unbiased source?

Are you kidding? What good would that be?

[Kafkaesque]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

Are you kidding? What good would that be?

I don't know until I see an unbiased source. I imagine it reads that the Company won a contract, but you never know.

I wonder how many Republicans spouses win contracts? Or Republicans companies they used to be a part of as CEO and own stock in.... Halliburton anyone?

[Fontucky]

*cough* Monsanto/Justice Thomas

Also: Eight lawmakers own stock in Monsanto, including Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) and Reps. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.), Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.), Michael McCaul (R-Texas), Jim Renacci (R-Ohio), Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and Fred Upton (R-Mich.).

[nullgeo]

Gentlemen, gentlemen ... are we dog-piling this and calling it bogus? Kinda unsportsman-like, don't you all think?

[beb0p]

Richard Blum has a history of being awarded lucrative government contracts, many on projects that his wife has stakes in. It's nothing new and it looks very suspiciously like dirty politics.

But it's silly to lump the Democrats or high speed rail into it. The Democrats don't condone this, one of these days it's going to bite Feinstein in the you-know-where and she will be voted out of office and possibly faces legal prosecution.

And it doesn't refute the fact that high-speed rail is a great idea. Just because someone tried to profit off of a good idea doesn't magically turn that idea bad.

[Sierravillian]

Originally Posted by beb0p

Richard Blum has a history of being awarded lucrative government contracts, many on projects that his wife has stakes in. It's nothing new and it looks very suspiciously like dirty politics.
.

Does he, can you support that assertion with, like, maybe, facts?

He was a multimillionaire businessman (and Himalayan mountain climber) long before Feinstein was a Senator.

[beb0p]

Originally Posted by Sierravillian

Does he, can you support that assertion with, like, maybe, facts?

He was a multimillionaire businessman (and Himalayan mountain climber) long before Feinstein was a Senator.

Here you go....

2003

URS Corp., a San Francisco planning and engineering firm partially owned by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein's husband, landed an Army contract Monday worth up to $600 million.

The award to help with troop mobilization, weapons systems training and anti-terrorism efforts is the latest in a string of plum defense jobs snared by URS. In February, the firm won an army engineering and logistics contract that could bring in $3.1 billion during the next eight years.

Army contract for Feinstein's husband / Blum is a director of firm that will get up to $600 million

2009

On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband’s real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms.
Mrs. Feinstein’s intervention on behalf of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was unusual: the California Democrat isn’t a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs with jurisdiction over FDIC; and the agency is supposed to operate from money it raises from bank-paid insurance payments - not direct federal dollars.

EXCLUSIVE: Senator’s husband’s firm cashes in on crisis

2012

Activists will be protesting Tuesday and have distributed a flyer headlined “Richard Blum Philanthropist, Opportunist, Thief of our National Heritage!” and stating: “Save the Berkeley Post Office is leading a Rally and March to Blum Capital and Senator Feinstein’s Office. …

Uproar Grows as Sen. Feinstein’s Husband Profits from Post Office Privatization

And I'm sure there are more...