Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) called for an investigation into whether AIG and other medical benefits providers denied costly treatment for civilian contractors injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a letter Tuesday to Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who chairs the Subcommittee on Domestic Policy of the House Oversight Committee, Cummings said he was “absolutely disgusted to read about the atrocities that individuals are being forced to endure as they attempt to get treatment for the injuries they received while serving our country.” The LA Times and ABC News reported last week that providers of medical benefits were unwilling to fund basic medical needs like artificial limbs, surgery, and psychological counseling. (LA Times)Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) introduced a bill to increase FDIC funding by $25 billion shortly after a firm chaired by her husband Richard Blum received a large real estate contract from the agency, the Washington Times reported Tuesday. Blum’s private investment company also reported to the SEC that it bought more than $10 million worth of new shares in CB Richard Ellis Group, the firm which received the government contract, around the time the bill was introduced. In a statement, Feinstein said that the story “makes inaccurate and unfair suggestions of impropriety that are simply not supported by facts” and that she supported the bill to address California’s rising number of foreclosures. (Washington Times/San Francisco Chronicle)
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