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The United States Government has entered into a contract with one firm to sell 56 buildings that currently house U.S. Post Offices. The government has decided that it no longer needs these buildings (many of which are located on prime land in towns and cities across the country). The sale of these properties will bring in billions of dollars and, with that, millions of dollars in commissions for the one Company in charge of handling the sale and negotiation of the new leases. What makes this such a matter of concern to me is that the Company the Government has contracted with to conduct the sales (and the corresponding leases for the new locations of the displaced post offices) is owned by Richard Blum. What? Didn't that name mean anything to you? Maybe I should re-phrase and say that the person who owns the company solely in charge of this multi-million-dollar transaction is Richard Blum, the husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein. Anything strange about that?