The Beatles in the 1960s wrote "Lady Madonna". It was a bouncy irreverant swipe at the Christians Virgin Mary. The refrain goes " how does she manage to make ends meet?"
Well the same question should be asked of US Senator Diane Feinstein and her Midas-touch husband Dick Blum. In the last five years Feinstein and Blum bought personal residential properties valued at app. $ 31 million. The properties include a Wash. D.C. mansion, an Aspen, Colorado" ski chalet" and the latest is a $ 16.5 million mansion next to Gordon Getty's mansion in San Francisco. This home has a property tax of app. $180,000 per year. Sen. Feinstein's salary as a government representative is app. $ 140,000 per year. Well " how does she manage to make ends meet?" Enter Dickie Blum. He runs billion through his investment pools. Now those stakeholders either like Dickie's personality and competence or want access to his Jewish American Princess A.K.A Sen. Feinstein. Here is a hint to the answer. He had no investment business of any note prior to hooking up with Di-Fi.
Sen, Feinstein, is also is one of AIPACs ( American Israel Public Affairs Committee) largest recpients of cash. Estimates of Blum's income range as high as $100,000,000 per year. Remember when Dick with Feinsteins help almost sold the Naval base at Long Beach to the Chinese some years back? At the last minute the transaction made the papers and an outcry by everyone except Sen Boxer stopped the sale.
Disgraced criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff is very much in the news. But it takes " two to Tango". Feinstein is a lobbyists dance partner. What has she sold?
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