This is how Feinstein gets rich.. /blogentry/98331 emilyg's Blog: This is how Feinstein gets rich.. en-us Lottery Post RSS Generator Original Blog Entry: This is how Feinstein gets rich.. /blogentry/98331 /blogentry/98331 Sat, 17 Jan 2015 04:47:22 GMT emilyg Ever wonder how lowly paid lawmakers leave office filthy rich?

Sen. Dianne Feinstein is showing how it's done.

The US Postal Service plans to sell 56 buildings so it can lease space more expensively and the real estate company of the California senator's husband, Richard Blum, is set to pocket about $1 billion in commissions.

Blum's company, CBRE, was selected in March 2011 as the sole real estate agent on sales expected to fetch $19 billion. Most voters didn't notice that Blum is a member of CBRE's board and served as chairman from 2001 to 2014.

This feat of federal spousal support was ignored by the media after Feinstein's office said the senator, whose wealth is pegged at $70 million, had nothing to do with the USPS decisions.

When the national debt is $18 trillion, a billion seems like small change.

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