[stevepaa]

JP, that is quite a stretch for you. No money was stuffed into her pockets.

Blum Capital Partners, which is headquartered in San Francisco, utilizes private equity and strategic block transactions to invest in both public and private companies.

A representative sample of our investment portfolio includes:

CB Richard Ellis (world's leading commercial real estate services firm);

Janus Capital Group Inc. (asset management with expertise in growth and risk-managed funds);

ITT Educational Services, Inc. (leading provider of technology-oriented postsecondary degree programs);

Avid Technology, Inc. (leading provider of digital media creation tools for film, video, audio, animation, games and broadcast professionals - as well as for home video and audio enthusiasts);

Kinetic Concepts (global medical device company with leadership positions in advanced wound care and therapeutic sufraces).


Gee, a huge investment firm owns stock in a lot of companies, and some win defense contracts. However, there is not even a hint she engaged in any deceit.

Klein said that he regularly gave Feinstein's chief of staff, Mark Kadesh, lists of Perini's current and upcoming contractual interests in federal legislation, so that the senator would not discuss, debate, vote on or participate in matters that could affect projects in which Perini was concerned.

"Earmarks, you know, set asides, you name it, there was a system in place which on a regular basis I got notified, I notified her office and her office notified her," Klein said.

"We basically identified any bid that Perini was going for and checked to see whether it was the subject of already appropriated funds or funds yet to be appropriated, and if it was anything that the senator could not act on, her office was alerted and she did not act on it." .

According to Klein, the Senate Select Committee on Ethics ruled, in secret, that Feinstein did not have a conflict of interest with Perini because, due to the existence of the bid and project lists provided by Klein, she knew when to recuse herself. Klein says that after URS declined to participate in his conflict of interest prevention plan, the ethics committee ruled that Feinstein could act on matters that affected URS, because she did not have a list of URS' needs.


Go search for another windmill. This is merely a mirage.