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Showing posts with label Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Show all posts
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Senator's Husband Cashes in on Crisis

Feinstein sought $25 billion for agency that awarded contract to spouse


From
The Washington Times
By Chuck Neubauer


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.

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