real estate boondoggles
Dianne Feinstein Is Bad for the Environment
Namely, the environment immediately surrounding her multimillion-dollar mansion, high in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco.
We previously linked to real estate porn of Senator Feinstein’s palatial residence. We now learn, via the San Francisco Chronicle, that recent landscaping changes by DiFi have infuriated city officials and her neighbors.
Details appear after the jump.
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Remainders: You Backed the Right Horse
- Diane Feinstein is richer than you. [SFluxe]
- Tom Kean has a plan to lower gas prices, if he could just get that damn computer to work. [Hotline Blog]
- Orrin Hatch has backed some pretty strange legislation, but what else do you expect from a guy who wears triple-starched tab collar shirts? [FireHatch]
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Separating Cunningham’s Assets From His Elbow
The U.S. Attorney’s office in San Diego is trying to seize the home of eminently indictable California Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham. This is not, mind you, the San Diego manse that Cunningham pawned of on his defense-contractor padrone Mitchell Wade, who then sold it at price $700,000 lower than what he paid his congressional protege. Nor is it “The Duke Stir,” the puckishly named DC-area house boat that Wade quartered Cunningham rent-free for 15 months; that one’s already been boarded and searched by the feds, plus the DC Yacht Club where it’s docked is reportedly seeking eviction proceedings against Cunningham. This, rather, is the luxe Rancho Santa Fe compound that Cunningham put on the market last week for a cool $3.5 million. The U.S. attorney’s office is seeking to get it forfeited to the feds since its “is derived from proceeds traceable to” alleged violations of federal bribery law. Should this tactic fail, though, there’s always the old grab-Mitchell-Wade-by-his-ankles-and-shake-a-few-hundred-grand-from-his-pockets approach. Hey, it’s got Cunningham this far.
Seizure of Lawmaker’s Home Sought by U.S. Attorney” [Washington Post]
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