Four reasons BUSH wanted FEINSTEIN as his insurance
against IMPEACHMENT:
1. She will do anything to make a buck, sell-out her state
or country. She’s done it from the very beginning of her squalid political
life during which she’s accumulated 40 million in personal residences, the
last being her WAR PROFITEERING 17 million mansion in San Francisco.
2. She already deserves to be impeached and imprisoned and
goes to great length to avoid the words IMPEACH AND IMPRISON. She worked hard
to keep GRAY DAVIS in office. Her husband had paid DAVIS a $75,000 bribe to
get himself on the Board of Regents so he could cut himself and DI more dirty
deals!
3. She’s as ethically squalid as BUSH-CHENEY-HALIBURTON
put together.
4. She’s bought off with “campaign bribes” from her
husband, RICHARD C BLUM, Boxer and Pelosi. as well as other Dems so they keep
their big mouths SHUT about Feinstein’s crimes.
FEINSTEIN SERVES ONE PURPOSE... THE DECIDING VOTE TO
PROTECT HER MAN, BUSH, FROM IMPEACHMENT. HENCE HER INVITATION TO FEED AT THE
CARLYLE GROUP, GOOGLE RICHARD BLUM, URS, FEINSTEIN
Feinstein may never have
done anything for CALIFORNIA in her long, squalid career of self-serving
politics, and servicing big bankers, PGE, and illegals, but she sure has made
a pile of dirty loot for herself.
CONFLICT of INTEREST is not something Feinstein seems to
be worried about. Her colleague Congressman Randy Cunningham from San Diego
went to prison for accepting bribes. FEINSTEIN channels all her ill got
monies through her white collar criminal husband RICHARD C. BLUM.
THE CRIME DUAL HAVE THE DUBIOUS HONOR OF BEING THE BIGGEST
WAR PROFITEER IN UNITED STATES HISTORY.
Then there’ s the piles Feinstein has made for being RED
CHINA’S agent.
The phoney computer school that bilked tax payers out of
millions... right into Feinstein’s pockets.
Then the place on the U.C. Board of Regents Blum bought
for a $75 “contribution” to Gray Davis.
Now Feinstein is kicking old people in the heads to make a
filthy dollar.
She’s accumulated more than 40 million in mansion while in
office, but it’s never enough for her.
Feinstein has her corrupt low-life staffers working full
time trying to convince people they’re stupid. That it isn’t Feinstein that
opens the doors for wiesel to slip through the back door and cut some big
money deals........
The brazenness of FEINSTEIN’S CORRUPTION, her
preoccupation with money making deals, at the cost of serving her State, and
the magnitude of her crimes is a document on how corrupt our government truly
is.
Feinstein is so corrupt, Bush invited Blum into the
Carlyle Group to feed there. Bush knew that Feinstein, a closet Republican
would NEVER VOTE IMPEACHMENT. How could she and stay out of prison herself?
Husband's
investments entangle Feinstein
LATEST
FLAP OVER MEDICARE PAYMENT DENIALS
By
David WhitneyMcClatchy NewspapersSan Jose Mercury News
Article
Launched:05/19/2007 01:36:54 AM PDT
WASHINGTON
- California lawmakers are questioning whether an auditing company in which
San Francisco investor Richard Blum, the husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein,
has a major financial stake is rejecting Medicare claims at California
rehabilitation hospitals in order to reap millions of dollars in profits at
the expense of patient care.
The
company, PRG-Schultz International, has a contract with the Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services, the overseer of the Medicare program, to check
payments in California for mistakes. Its only pay is a bounty of up to 30
percent on the "overcharges" it identifies.
The
California Hospital Association first raised concerns in November that
PRG-Schultz was targeting rehabilitation hospitals that cared for Medicare
patients after knee or hip replacement surgery. The hospital association said
PRG-Schultz has reviewed thousands of cases dating as far back as 2002 and has
rejected nearly all as medically unnecessary.
Melinda
Staveley, president of the 38-bed Rehabilitation Institute at Santa Barbara,
said more than 100 such cases from her non-profit institution had been
rejected. The facility could face having to repay more than $2 million.
Elderly
patients
As
difficult as that would be financially for a small hospital with a $12
million annual budget, she said the bigger concern is future patient care.
The frail and elderly surgery patients with compound medical problems no
longer will have access to rehabilitation hospitals and will have to rely on
home or outpatient services.
"This
is devastating," Staveley said of the audits.
Her
husband's business interests in PRG-Schultz have proved awkward for
Feinstein, the state's Democratic senior senator, as the hospital association
turns to Congress for relief.
This
is not the first time Blum's business interests have collided with his wife's
job. Blum Capital Partners is a major investor in Northwest Airlines, which
in 1995 won the first contract by an American air carrier to fly to Beijing.
Feinstein had been friends with a former Chinese political leader since she
was mayor of San Francisco.
More
recently, concerns have been raised in Republican circles about some of
Blum's investments benefiting from defense contracts at a time when the
senator was serving on the Senate military construction appropriations
committee.
Feinstein's
press aide, Scott Gerber, said the senator played no role in the legislation
creating the auditing program and did not intervene with program
administrators to help PRG-Schultz get the three-year contract in 2005.
Serious
concerns
On
Thursday, after questions from McClatchy Newspapers, Feinstein sent a letter
to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that called the hospital
association's concerns "potentially serious." She asked program
administrators to investigate, saying the concerns are spreading beyond its
determinations on rehabilitation hospitals to other aspects of
Medicare-financed hospitalizations for the elderly, including short-stay
hospital admissions.
Feinstein
made no mention of her husband's interest in PRG-Schultz, which she lists in
her annual financial disclosure reports. According to PRG-Schultz, Blum's
investment companies own 10.5 percent of its outstanding common stock, 53
percent of its outstanding preferred stock and 28 percent of its notes and
securities.
California
House members soon will follow with a joint letter of their own asking for an
investigation.
Rep.
Lois Capps, D-Santa Barbara, is taking the lead among Democrats. Her press
aide, Emily Kryder, said 15 members - more than a quarter of the state's
congressional delegation - have agreed to sign the letter so far.
"The
review and collection practices of PRG-Schultz threaten access to rehabilitation
services in California," the letter said. "We urge you to examine
the actions taken by PRG-Schultz International, Inc."
The
auditing program was set up as a demonstration project initially focusing on
the three highest-cost Medicare states - California, New York and Florida.
Separate contractors are used for each state. PRG-Schultz is the only
for-profit contractor among them, and Medicare administrators believe it has
been the most controversial because it alone has been zeroing in on rehabilitation
hospitals. Highly
lucrative
On
the brink of financial collapse when it won the contract two years ago,
PRG-Schultz has found the job to be enormously lucrative. Government figures
indicate that it had rejected $105 million in California Medicare overcharges
as of Sept. 30, the end of the 2006 fiscal year.
Medicare
managers said they could not release figures for how much PRG-Schultz was
claiming as commissions for finding the alleged overcharges, saying the
information was proprietary. But based on bounties of 28 percent that were
used in establishing the program, PRG-Schultz's entitlement could be as much
as $29 million.
The
California Hospital Association said in a letter to Medicare administrators
in November that PRG-Schultz should be suspended for improperly applying
Medicare rules and using unqualified personnel.
PRG-Schultz
declined to comment. But officials of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services steadfastly defended PRG-Schultz, saying it's applying rules on
medically necessary admissions that probably have been ignored in California
for years.
PRG-Schultz
"coming to town is probably the first real look at these hospitals in
many, many years," said Melanie Combs, senior technical adviser for the
federal program.
"These
rules have been on the books since 1985," Combs said. "Maybe it's
possible some have been overlooking them. Maybe there have been consultants
out there helping hospitals to, quote, maximize reimbursements. And maybe
perhaps some of that has entailed looking the other way."
A
call to Blum Capital Partners - of which Blum is board chairman - asking for
comment was not returned.
PRG-Schultz
reported a first-quarter profit this year of $1.5 million, compared to a $10
million loss for the same period in 2006.
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Feinstein
under fire over defense ties
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HUSBAND
HAS PROFITED FROM PENTAGON CONTRACTS
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By
Michael DoyleMcClatchy Washington BureauSan Jose Mercury News
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Article
Launched:04/15/2007 01:31:07 AM PDT
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WASHINGTON
- Bloggers and activists are writing a new chapter in the marriage between
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein and husband Richard Blum.
Feinstein
has real power. Blum has serious money. For 27 married years, the politician
and the investor have excelled professionally while facing periodic queries
about Blum's far-flung investments.
The
latest round now comes powered by the Internet, fanned by activists on both
right and left. The partisans find
common cause in questioning Feinstein's role in Pentagon spending while Blum
was investing in defense firms.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
YOU WONDERED WHY WAR WHORE FEINSTEIN VOTES ENDLESSLY FOR
MORE, MORE, MORE WAR…..?????
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Critics
have accused Feinstein of having a conflict of interest by serving through
last year as chair and ranking member of the Senate's military construction
appropriations subcommittee at the same time that her husband had financial
interests in two firms that rely on defense contracts.
The
Senate panel approves about $16 billion annually for military construction
projects.
Until
2005, Blum had major holdings in two firms, URS Corp. and Perini Corp., that
rely on defense contracts.
Perini
received $200 million in federal contracts from 2000 to 2006, primarily with
the Army, according to records compiled by the private watchdog group OMB
Watch. URS received $1.8 billion worth of contracts - primarily Air Force,
Army and Navy - during the same period
Feinstein's
spokesman Scott Gerber declared that the senator has always "acted
appropriately" and within the Senate's ethics guidelines. He sternly
denounced suggestions of conflict, first raised in articles published in the
Bay Area's free Metro weekly newspaper, and noted that the Pentagon, not
Congress, decides who is awarded contracts.
"The
story is filled with inaccuracies, errors and distortions," Gerber said,
"and it has been pushed by the right-wing bloggers."
Actually,
the story has migrated from left to right and back again.
Last
Sunday, it was the left's turn, as female anti-war protesters gathered
outside Feinstein's San Francisco home. Code Pink leader Medea Benjamin
declared that Feinstein and Blum "have profited from this war" in
Iraq.
On
the right, the conservative group Judicial Watch announced its own probe. The
Washington-based group, which filed myriad lawsuits against the Clinton
administration, is now preparing Freedom of Information Act requests into the
URS and Perini contracts.
"We've
commenced an investigation," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said.
The
Metro story, cited in hundreds of blogs since, was reported by a freelance
writer who received a grant from the liberal Nation magazine's investigative
fund. The author, Peter Byrne, said he stands by everything he wrote.
"They
haven't come up with a single fact that is in error," Byrne said of
Feinstein's office. After
the Nation rejected his story last fall, Byrne said he "flogged it
around to a lot of liberal publications" before getting it published in
Metro. The original story goes into considerable detail; Feinstein's office
has in turn prepared a detailed rebuttal.
"I
find it hard to believe that the allegations are completely true since this
is too obvious a conflict for a senior senator to make," University of
California-Berkeley political scientist Bruce Cain said.
Blum and
Feinstein have weathered past episodes that included questions about Blum's
investments in China. Blum has always maintained that he has
conducted his businesses properly.
Last
year, in meeting the Senate's financial disclosure requirements, Feinstein
needed 148 pages to detail the family's assets. Feinstein is one of the
Senate's wealthiest members, with assets in 2005 valued from $45 million to
$105 million.
She
sought "the advice of the Senate Ethics Committee on her own initiative
about whether conflicts existed - and (is) following that guidance,"
Gerber said. "That guidance indicated that, given the facts, Senator
Feinstein could fully consider, debate, and vote on appropriations bills,
whether in the subcommittee, committee or full Senate."
The
Metro stories also contended that Feinstein had "resigned" from the
military construction subcommittee, suggesting she departed under pressure.
Senate
Appropriations Committee spokesman Tom Gavin replied Thursday that seven
other lawmakers had also flipped appropriations subcommittees this year.
"This
is a process that happens at the start of every Congress," Gavin said.
Feinstein
left the military panel to chair the subcommittee that handles the Forest
Service, the National Park Service and other agencies crucial to California.
"Frankly,
for California, it's a better opportunity for the senator, and she took
it," Gerber said, adding that the claim that Feinstein had resigned from
the military subcommittee was "just not true."
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Husband's investments
entangle Feinstein
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LATEST FLAP OVER MEDICARE
PAYMENT DENIALS
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By David WhitneyMcClatchy
NewspapersSan Jose Mercury News
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Article Launched:05/19/2007 01:36:54
AM PDT
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WASHINGTON - California lawmakers are questioning whether an auditing
company in which San Francisco investor Richard Blum, the husband of Sen.
Dianne Feinstein, has a major financial stake is rejecting Medicare claims at
California rehabilitation hospitals in order to reap millions of dollars in
profits at the expense of patient care.
The company, PRG-Schultz
International, has a contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services, the overseer of the Medicare program, to check payments in
California for mistakes. Its only pay is a bounty of up to 30 percent on the
"overcharges" it identifies.
The California Hospital
Association first raised concerns in November that PRG-Schultz was targeting
rehabilitation hospitals that cared for Medicare patients after knee or hip
replacement surgery. The hospital association said PRG-Schultz has reviewed
thousands of cases dating as far back as 2002 and has rejected nearly all as
medically unnecessary. Melinda
Staveley, president of the 38-bed Rehabilitation Institute at Santa Barbara,
said more than 100 such cases from her non-profit institution had been
rejected. The facility could face having to repay more than $2 million.
Elderly patients
As difficult as that would
be financially for a small hospital with a $12 million annual budget, she
said the bigger concern is future patient care. The frail and elderly surgery
patients with compound medical problems no longer will have access to
rehabilitation hospitals and will have to rely on home or outpatient
services.
"This is
devastating," Staveley said of the audits.
Her husband's business
interests in PRG-Schultz have proved awkward for Feinstein, the state's
Democratic senior senator, as the hospital association turns to Congress for
relief.
This is not the first time
Blum's business interests have collided with his wife's job. Blum Capital
Partners is a major investor in Northwest Airlines, which in 1995 won the
first contract by an American air carrier to fly to Beijing. Feinstein had
been friends with a former Chinese political leader since she was mayor of
San Francisco.
More recently, concerns have
been raised in Republican circles about some of Blum's investments benefiting
from defense contracts at a time when the senator was serving on the Senate
military construction appropriations committee.
Feinstein's press aide,
Scott Gerber, said the senator played no role in the legislation creating the
auditing program and did not intervene with program administrators to help
PRG-Schultz get the three-year contract in 2005.
Serious concerns
“FEINSTEIN SENT A LETTER
EXPRESSING HER CONCERNS....”
THIS IS TYPICAL WHORE FEINSTEIN.
SHE LIES THROUGH BOTH SIDES OF HER MOUTH AND STILL COUNTS HER DIRTY MONEY.
THE OLD WHORE HAS BEEN SENDING
OUT THE SAME OLD FORM LETTER FOR A DECADES EXPRESSING HER “CONCERN” OVER THE
INVASION BY MEXICO. ALL THE WHILE SHE’S IN THE BACK ROOM WORKING OUT NEW BIT
BY BIT AMNESTY WITH HER LA RAZA WHORES, PELOSI. BOXER, WAXMAN, ESHOO,
LOFGREN, HARMAN, FARR, SANCHEZ, ET AL.
THE OLD WHORE HAS PUBLICALLY MADE
COMMENTS ABOUT EVIL WAR PROFITEERS AND THEN WENT TO TOWN SERVICING BUSH WITH
HER !NO! IMPEACHMENT, FOR WAR PROFITS. ENOUGH TO BUY HERSELF ANOTHER MANSION,
THE 17 MILLION SAN FRANCISCO PLACE.IT’S TIME FEINSTEIN WENT TO PRISON!
On Thursday, after questions
from McClatchy Newspapers, Feinstein sent a letter to the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services that called the hospital association's
concerns "potentially serious." She asked program administrators to
investigate, saying the concerns are spreading beyond its determinations on
rehabilitation hospitals to other aspects of Medicare-financed
hospitalizations for the elderly, including short-stay hospital admissions.
Feinstein made no mention of
her husband's interest in PRG-Schultz, which she lists in her annual
financial disclosure reports. According to PRG-Schultz, Blum's investment
companies own 10.5 percent of its outstanding common stock, 53 percent of its
outstanding preferred stock and 28 percent of its notes and securities.
California House members
soon will follow with a joint letter of their own asking for an
investigation.
Rep. Lois Capps, D-Santa
Barbara, is taking the lead among Democrats. Her press aide, Emily Kryder,
said 15 members - more than a quarter of the state's congressional delegation
- have agreed to sign the letter so far.
"The review and
collection practices of PRG-Schultz threaten access to rehabilitation
services in California," the letter said. "We urge you to examine
the actions taken by PRG-Schultz International, Inc."
The auditing program was set
up as a demonstration project initially focusing on the three highest-cost
Medicare states - California, New York and Florida. Separate contractors are
used for each state. PRG-Schultz is the only for-profit contractor among
them, and Medicare administrators believe it has been the most controversial
because it alone has been zeroing in on rehabilitation hospitals.
Highly lucrative
On the brink of financial
collapse when it won the contract two years ago, PRG-Schultz has found the
job to be enormously lucrative. Government figures indicate that it had
rejected $105 million in California Medicare overcharges as of Sept. 30, the
end of the 2006 fiscal year.
Medicare managers said they
could not release figures for how much PRG-Schultz was claiming as
commissions for finding the alleged overcharges, saying the information was
proprietary. But based on bounties of 28 percent that were used in
establishing the program, PRG-Schultz's entitlement could be as much as $29
million.
The California Hospital
Association said in a letter to Medicare administrators in November that
PRG-Schultz should be suspended for improperly applying Medicare rules and
using unqualified personnel.
PRG-Schultz declined to
comment. But officials of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
steadfastly defended PRG-Schultz, saying it's applying rules on medically
necessary admissions that probably have been ignored in California for years.
PRG-Schultz "coming to
town is probably the first real look at these hospitals in many, many
years," said Melanie Combs, senior technical adviser for the federal
program.
"These rules have been
on the books since 1985," Combs said. "Maybe it's possible some
have been overlooking them. Maybe there have been consultants out there
helping hospitals to, quote, maximize reimbursements. And maybe perhaps some
of that has entailed looking the other way."
A call to Blum Capital
Partners - of which Blum is board chairman - asking for comment was not
returned.
PRG-Schultz reported a
first-quarter profit this year of $1.5 million, compared to a $10 million
loss for the same period in 2006.
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google feinstein and war
profiteering
red china, indian casinos, la raza
open borders, there really isn’t anywhere she hasn’t sold us out for a buck!
FEINSTEIN PROTECTS HER PAYING JOHN
FROM IMPEACHMENT:
Dear Sheep of America: Thank you
for your letter concerning impeachment proceedings against President Bush. I
appreciate the time you took to write and welcome the opportunity to respond. In
our recent elections, the American people expressed clear disapproval with the
path this country was on. They are tired of partisan politics and of an
Administration that pays little heed to the wishes of the American people. They
want-and deserve-a Congress that holds the Administration accountable and
fulfills its Constitutional responsibility to check and balance the Executive.
I share this sentiment and am determined to work hard and across party lines in
the United States Senate to promote issues that are of real concern to most
Americans, including the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan, homeland security,
global warming, and lobbying and election reform. At this time, however, I
believe that impeachment proceedings against President Bush will only divide
the country even further, frustrating our hopes for a meaningful change in
direction, while having little chance of success. I have been deeply
disappointed by many of this Administration's actions and have been outspoken
in those instances. Nevertheless, given the challenges our country faces I
believe that we need to focus on constructive and cooperative steps that would
lead us in the right direction. Again, thank you for your continued
correspondence. If you have any further questions or comments, please contact
my office in Washington, D.C. at (202) 224-3841. Best regards. Sincerely yours,
Dianne Feinstein THE WHITE HOUSE WHOREUnited States SenatorFurther information
about my position on issues of concern to California and the Nation are available
at my website http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/.
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Illegal-immigration blues WASHINGTON TIMES EDITORIAL As
neighboring states like Virginia make it increasingly difficult for illegal
aliens to get driver’s licenses, Maryland is increasingly becoming an island —
a state that stands alone as a weak point when it comes to maintaining the
integrity of driver’s licenses. Maryland is one of just five states that do not
require that driver’s license applicants be able to show they are in the United
States legally, according to the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA).
Bills introduced by Sen. David Brinkley, Frederick Republican (S.B. 621) and
Delegate Ron George, Anne Arundel Republican, requiring that applicants for
driver’s licenses provide a birth certificate or other evidence showing that
they are legally present in the United States, have stalled. With just 15 days
left before the conclusion of the regular 2008 session of the General Assembly,
chances for both bills are fading fast. In the 141-member House, Mr. George has
58 sponsors — all 37 Republicans plus 21 Democrats — for his bill (H.B. 288) to
require that effective Oct. 1, license applicants must be able to demonstrate
by that they are legally present in Maryland. The measure is being bottled up
in the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Delegate Joseph Vallario, Prince
George’s Democrat, who is strongly opposed. And Mr. Vallario would be unable to
do this without the active support of his legislative boss: House Speaker
Michael Busch, Anne Arundel Democrat. Mr. O’Malley is in a very difficult
political position. In January, the governor and Transportation Secretary John
Porcari had put forward a plan to replace the current license system with a
two-tier plan similar to the ill-fated one proposed last year by Gov. Eliot
Spitzer, in which persons legally in the United States could get a license they
could use to board airplanes or enter federal buildings. But Mr. Spitzer’s plan
had collapsed several months earlier, and Mr. O’Malley’s popularity ratings had
plummeted to the point that his popularity rating was lower than that of
President Bush. According to a Fox 5/The Washington Times/Rasmussen Reports
poll released in early January, Marylanders gave the governor a 33 percent
job-approval rating, slightly below Mr. Bush’s rating. The poll also showed
that 66 percent of respondents favored giving police the right to check the
immigration status of drivers when they are pulled over for a traffic
violation, while 76 percent said illegals should be barred from obtaining
driver’s licenses. But at the same time, however, the governor was coming under
pressure from CASA of Maryland — the state’s number one lobbying group for
illegal aliens — not to yield at all. For now, the O’Malley administration’s
legislative priority is killing off the Brinkley and George Bills. So, the MVA
has quietly released position papers which take no official position on either
bill, raising questions about the costs and "confusion" resulting
from the new regulations (welcome to government 101). Bureaucratic niceties
aside, the bottom line is this: if H.B. 288 and S.B. 621 die this year, the
governor believes that in 2009, with a Democrat in the White House, tougher
standards for obtaining driver’s licenses will whither on the vine.
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