This must present a very complicated situation:
Perini Corporation: $2.5 Billon awarded 2005 Iraq contract
(Principal shareholder Richard Blum - Sen. Feinstein’s husband - co-owns 75 percent of Perini's voting shares. Sen. Feinstein serves on the Appropriations Committee and the Select Committee on Intelligence.)
http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/bio.aspx?act=pro&ddlC=45Profiting from war?
Stock History: Ticker PCR; Chart:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=PCR&t=5y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=Share price: Feb 2003, $3.00 - $4.00 – avg. volume of shares traded p/d 2400
Share price: March 2003, $3.00 - $4.00 – avg. volume of shares traded p/d 8500
Share price: Sept. 13, 2007, $53.90 – avg. volume of shares traded p/d 913,000
Sources:
http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/bio.aspx?act=pro&fil=IQSen. Feinstein’s Iraq voting record:
H.J. Res 114
October 11, 2002,
Authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq.
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00237Senate Regrets the Vote to Enter Iraq:
Jan 5, 2007
Knowing Then What It Knows Now, 2002 Senate Would Vote Against Giving President War Powers
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/Story?id=2771519&page=1In an ABC survey in October 2003:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2771576&page=1Of the 77 Senators who voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq in October 2002:
Along with 27 other Senators Feinstein indicates... would vote differently knowing then what they know now…
Oh Really?
She has consistently voted in support of continued Emergency Iraq Supplemental Spending Bills:
H.R. 1591
April 26, 2007
Iraq emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other purposes.
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00147What other elected officials owe favors and have possible conflicts of interest?
Who's been funding your Senators and US Representatives that keep voting YEA on Iraq funding?
Some companies raking in the dough with 2005 Iraq contracts; Lockheed Martin $19.4 Billion (2006 contributions: $2.1 mil), Boeing $18.3 Billion (2006 contributions $1.4 mil), General Dynamics $10.6 billion (2006 contributions $1.4 mil), Halliburton $5.8 billion (2004 Contributions $221,249), Perini Corp $2.5 billon (Senator Feinstein’s husband Richard Blum co-owns 75% of Perini voting shares - she serves on the Appropriations Committee), GE $2.2 billion - GE’s $43 billion media portfolio consist of NBC(2006 contributions 2.2 mil). Foreign companies are gobbling up too; about 20 Australian companies won contracts worth $1.9 billion.
http://www.warprofiteers.com/article.php?id=11257