The Occupy Wall Street Crowd

It amazes me how rapidly the left turns on Wall Street, while refusing to recognize that Wall Street owns their leader and his party.  Using opensecrets.org, I searched for political contributions by Raj Rajaratnam, who is part of the Galleon insider trading scandal:

Rajaratnam, Raj New York,NY 10022	Galleon/CEO	8/28/08	$26,200	DNC Services Corp (D)
Rajaratnam, Raj New York,NY 10022	Galleon	8/31/08	$2,300	Obama, Barack (D)
Rajaratnam, Raj New York,NY 10022	Galleon	8/31/08	$2,300	Obama, Barack (D)
RAJARATNAM, RAJ NEW YORK,NY 10022	THE GALLEON GROUP/FOUNDER	11/6/07	$2,300	Clinton, Hillary (D)
RAJARATNAM, RAJ NEW YORK,NY 10022	THE GALLEON GROUP/FOUNDER	11/6/07	$2,300	Clinton, Hillary (D)
RAJARATNAM, RAJ NEW YORK,NY 10022		8/28/08	$-2,300	Clinton, Hillary (D)

Michael Kimelman was another trader recently convicted in this insider trading scandal:

Contributor	Occupation	Date	Amount	Recipient
KIMELMAN, MICHAEL LARCHMONT,NY 10538	INCREMENTAL CAPITAL, LLC/FINANCE	6/24/09	$1,000	Arcuri, Michael (D)

Or Bernie Madoff:

Contributor	Occupation	Date	Amount	Recipient
MADOFF, BERNARD NEW YORK,NY 10022	SELF EMPLOYED/INVESTOR	4/24/08	$2,300	Merkley, Jeff (D)
MADOFF, BERNARD L NEW YORK,NY 10022	BERNARD L. MADOFF INVEST.-SEC./CHAI	5/4/07	$25,000	Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte (D)
MADOFF, BERNARD L NEW YORK,NY 10022	BERNARD L. MADOFF INVEST.-SEC./CHAI	9/12/08	$25,000	Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte (D)
MADOFF, BERNARD L NEW YORK,NY 10021	BERNARD MADOFF INVESTMENT	7/20/07	$2,300	Lautenberg, Frank R (D)
MADOFF, BERNARD L NEW YORK,NY 10021	BERNARD L. MADOFF INVESTMENT/CHAIRM	7/10/07	$2,300	Saul, Andrew Marshall (R)
MADOFF, BERNARD L NEW YORK,NY 10021	BERNARD MADOFF INVESTMENT	7/20/07	$300	Lautenberg, Frank R (D)
MADOFF, BERNARD L NEW YORK,NY 10021		12/5/07	$-2,300	Saul, Andrew Marshall (R)
MADOFF, BERNARD L NEW YORK,NY 10022		3/18/09	$-25,000	Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte (D)
MADOFF, BERNARD L NEW YORK,NY 10022		3/18/09	$-25,000	Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte (D)
MADOFF, BERNARD L NEW YORK,NY 10022		3/18/09	$-25,000	Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte (D)
MADOFF, BERNARD L NEW YORK,NY 10022		3/18/09	$-25,000	Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte (D)
MADOFF, BERNARD L MR NEW YORK,NY 10021	BERNARD L. MADOFF INVESTMENT SECURI	5/24/07	$5,000	Securities Industry & Financial Mkt Assn
MADOFF, BERNARD L MR NEW YORK,NY 10021	BERNARD L. MADOFF INVESTMENT SECURI	8/20/08	$5,000	Securities Industry & Financial Mkt Assn
MADOFF, BERNARD L MR NEW YORK,NY 10021		2/27/09	$-10,000	Securities Industry & Financial Mkt Assn

Yes, there is a Republican in there, but look at where the big money goes.


And this is common across Wall Street.  Yes, there are contributions to Republicans, too, but the way the Democrats pretend it is them against the rich is just absurd.