If nothing else has pissed you off about this administration this might get to you.The US has entered into a contract with a real estate firm to sell 56buildings that currently house U.S. Post Offices. The government hasdecided it no longer needs these buildings, most of which are located onprime land in towns and cities across the country. The sale of theseproperties will fetch about $19 billion.A regular real estate commission will be paid to the company that wasgiven the exclusive listing for handling the sales. That company is CRIand it belongs to a man named Richard Blum.Richard Blum is the husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein. (Most voters andmany of the government people who approved the deal have not made theconnection between the two because they have different last names).Senator Feinstein and her husband stand to make a fortune (est at between$950 million and $1.1 billion!!) from these transactions. His company isthe sole real estate on the sale. CRI will be making a minimum of 3% andas much as 6% commission on each and every sale.All of the properties that are being sold are all fully paid for. Theywere purchased with U.S. taxpayers dollars. The U.S.P.S. is allowed freeand c lea r, tax exempt use. The only cost to keep them open is the cost toactually keep the doors open and the heat and lights on. The UnitedStates Postal Service doesn't even have to pay county property taxes onthese subject properties.Would you put your house in foreclosure just because you couldn't affordto pay the electric bill?Well, the folks in Washington have given the Post Office the OK to do it!Worse yet,most of the net proceeds of the sales will go back to theU.S.P.S, an organization that is so poorly managed that they have lost$117 billion dollars in the past 10 years!No one in the mainstream media is even raising an eyebrow over theconflict of interest and on the possibility of corruption on the sale ofbillions of dollars worth of public assets.How does a U.S. Senator from San Francisco manage to get away withorganizing and lobbying such a sweet deal? Has our government become soelitist that they have no fear of oversight?And it's no mere coincidence that these two public service crooks havedifferent last names; a feeble attempt at avoiding transparency in thesetype of transactions.Pass this info on before it's pulled from the internet.Verified on Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/blum.asp
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