The US Postal Service plans to sell 56 buildings--so it can lease space more expensively--and the real estate company of the California senator's husband, Richard Blum, is set to pocket about $1 billion in commissions.
Blum's company, CBRE, was selected in March 2011 as the sole real estate agent on sales expected to fetch $19 billion. Most voters didn't notice that Blum is a member of CBREs board and served as chairman from 2001 to 2014.
This feat of federal spousal support was ignored by the media after Feinstein's office said the senator, whose wealth is pegged at $70 million, had nothing to do with the USPS decisions.
When the national debt is $18 trillion, a billion seems like small change.
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Also of course they are exempt from Insider Trading rules.
Bribes are illegal but stock tips are not.
But apparently the D after Joe Morrisseys name washes away sins. Or at least, it buys a heck of a lot of forbearance from certain activist groups. It certainly helps when you need to obscure key details on a scandal for as long as humanly possible. Seriously: the fact that this is first I somebody who actually has been following the story have heard of this demonstrates, point-blank, that the media fell down on the job. Again. And again and again and again and again.
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