Here is a good example; Richard Blum, Senator Feinstein's husband and an alumnus of above:
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ro ... 652085.phpBlum's firms win multimillion-dollar defense contracts in Iraq, Afghanistan Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross
Published 4:00 am, Sunday, April 27, 2003
When it comes to scoring mega-military-related contracts, Sen. Dianne Feinstein's multimillionaire husband, Richard Blum, is right in the thick of things.
First up: a contract announced last week between the Army and URS Corp., the San Francisco planning and engineering company that specializes in defense work -- and that happens to be partly owned by Blum's investment firm.
The contract -- which could grow to $600 million -- is to help with troop mobilization, weapons systems training and anti-terrorism methods.
That's on top of a $3.1 billion Army contract that URS snared back in February for weapons systems and homeland defense.
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Richard Blum at wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._BlumRichard C. Blum (born July 31, 1935[1][2]) is an American investment banker. He is the husband of United States Senator from California Dianne Feinstein. He is the chairman and president of Blum Capital, an equity investment management firm that acts as general partner for various investment partnerships and provides investment advisory services. Blum also serves in various boards of directors of several companies, including CB Richard Ellis. He is also a regent of the University of California, where until May 2009 he served as the chairman of that board.
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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.[4] 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.[5] 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.[1]
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."[6]
The United States Postal Service has entered into an exclusive contract with CB Richard Ellis to sell buildings that currently house post offices.[7]
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Note no mention of the at least 3.7 billion in GWB's War on Terror military contracts.
An exclusive contract to sell off US Post Office buildings? Another step toward neoliberal privatization.
War mongers and war profiteers. People of peace aren't invited to participate.
