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2015-03-09 Home Front: Politix

Sen. Dianne Feinstein's husband wins CA rail contract

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Posted by Hupineger Glomomp52169 2015-03-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Politicians aren't even trying to hide this stuff anymore. They know they have only two years left to ransack the taxpayers for all they can get.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-03-09 01:09|| 2015-03-09 01:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Tudor Saliba et al., is the sleaziest, scummiest, and most dishonest general contracting firm on this planet.

I know they were essentially escorted off the job site for their "work" on the SFO project...twenty years after they were escorted off the job site at SFO on an earlier series of modernizations.

I know a number of large public entities that spit when someone mentions their name.

The US Navy has them blacklisted as does the USACE.

How on earth can they get public work in California when they should have been banned for their work?

Posted by Mystic 2015-03-09 01:14|| 2015-03-09 01:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Who could have possibly known ?

Blum's wife, Senator Dianne Feinstein, has received scrutiny due to her husband's government contracts and extensive business dealings with China and her past votes on trade issues with the country. Blum has denied any wrongdoing, however. Critics have argued that business contracts with the US government awarded to a company (Perini) controlled by Blum may raise a potential conflict-of-interest issue with the voting and policy activities of his wife. URS Corp, which Blum had a substantial stake in, bought EG&G, a leading provider of technical services and management to the U.S. military, from The Carlyle Group in 2002; EG&G subsequently won a $600m defense contract.

In 2009 it was reported that Blum's wife Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to provide $25 billion in taxpayer money to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, a government agency that had recently awarded her husband's real estate firm, CB Richard Ellis, what the Washington Times called "a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms."

The United States Postal Service has entered into an exclusive contract with CB Richard Ellis to sell buildings that currently house post offices.

Wiki link

Posted by Besoeker 2015-03-09 02:48|| 2015-03-09 02:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Sen. Feinsteins says: "Don't look at me, let's go look at someone else--like Hillary and her emails."

Posted by JohnQC 2015-03-09 06:57|| 2015-03-09 06:57|| Front Page Top

#5 The firms bid $985,142,530 to build the wildly anticipated first section of high speed rail track that will tie the megopolis of Madera to the global finance center of Fresno.

Heck, for that kind of money you build a web site.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-03-09 11:54|| 2015-03-09 11:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Iff 21st Century CHINA = so-called "NEW JAPAN" of the late 20th Century, by extension China's metal products may have the same poor or problematic reputation of the "Japanese Shackle" + "Japanese Steel" from the last Century = DON'T RIDE OR USE CA'S RAIL SYSTEM, ETC. UNLESS EVERYTHING-N-I-MEAN-EVERYTHING IS TRIPLE-CHECKED + BACK-UP SYSTEMS ARE IN PLACE.

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