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-1_thumb Sidebar to Part Six: Senator Dianne Feinstein’s Educational Conflict Investor’s Club: How the UC Regents Spin Public Funds into Private Profit
-1_thumb Appendix Two: Financial Dossiers of Regents to Watch Investor’s Club: How the UC Regents Spin Public Funds into Private Profit
-1_thumb Appendix One: Research Methodology Investor’s Club: How the UC Regents Spin Public Funds into Private Profit
-1_thumb Part Eight: Blum Capital Partners Gets Lucky: UC owns stocks in all of the public companies in Regent Richard C. Blum’s portfolio Investor’s Club: How the UC Regents Spin Public Funds into Private Profit
-1_thumb Part Seven: Tapping the State Pension Fund: Against all odds—literally—a regent secures billions of dollars in CalPERS investments Investor’s Club: How the UC Regents Spin Public Funds into Private Profit
-1_thumb Part Five: Four Case Studies in Conflicts of Interest by UC Regents Investor’s Club: How the UC Regents Spin Public Funds into Private Profit
-1_thumb Part Four: Seven Private Equity Deals: How Regent Richard C. Blum benefited from $748 million worth of private equity and bond investments by UC Investor’s Club: How the UC Regents Spin Public Funds into Private Profit
-1_thumb Part Three: The Regents Club: Conflicts of interest are nothing new at UC, but they may be getting worse Investor’s Club: How the UC Regents Spin Public Funds into Private Profit
-1_thumb Part Two: The Smell Test: How to tell the difference between a conflict of interest and a coincidence Investor’s Club: How the UC Regents Spin Public Funds into Private Profit
Picture_1_thumb Senator Dianne Feinstein’s Education Conflict Investor’s Club: How the UC Regents Spin Public Funds into Private Profit
10_news1_blum_fin_thumb Part Six: Billion Dollar Babies: University of California invests $53 million in two diploma mills owned by a regent Investor’s Club: How the UC Regents Spin Public Funds into Private Profit
-1_thumb Are some UC Regents "gaming the system"? Investor’s Club: How the UC Regents Spin Public Funds into Private Profit

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