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[g5jamz]

http://washingtontim...s-in-on-crisis/

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.

[PanthaSan]

That bitch!

[LiQuiD]

Considering that banks weren't required over the past decade to pay those FDIC premiums, I guess they had to get the money from somewhere...

Read more here

[Fiz]

good she's awful

[Htar]

Bleh, both parties are corrupt. Every election the American people should vote the incumbents out.