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Dianne Feinstein Series
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein was the chair of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee from 2001 to 2005, and during that time she micromanaged $1.5 billion in construction projects around the world that were contracted to her husbands companies.
Tags: MILCON; Daddy Warbucks; CBRE Richard Ellis; Michael Klein; Perini; URS; conflict of interest; senator; appropriations
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Captivating a Nation
When Joseph Roger O'Dell was convicted of Helen Schartner's murder in 1986, he was sentenced to death in the electric chair. But a few years later a wealthy socialite divorcee named Lori Urs fell in love with him, and his fortunes changed. Urs campaigned nationally for his release, and when that didn't produce results, she went oversees -- the Roman Catholic country of Italy. There, O'Dell became a "hit" -- a symbol against the death penalty. Italian parliamentarians even passed measures denouncing the act. The U.S. Supreme Court stayed his execution on December 1996. This article discusses the facts, fables and implications of this trial on the eve of O'Dell's argument before the Supreme Court.
Tags: Crime; Capital Punishment; Roger O'Dell