I see the anti-Hillary brigade is on another tear...

[brooklynite]

38. "Elizabeth Warren's Money Machine"

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/296227/elizabeth-warrens-wall-street-money-machine-kevin-d-williamson

Elizabeth Warren has called Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown the “poster boy for Goldman Sachs.” Her aide Alethea Harney had this to say: “Unlike with Scott Brown, middle-class families won’t have to wonder whether Elizabeth Warren will choose them over Wall Street.” And why might Scott Brown, who does not have particularly deep ties to Wall Street, choose distant financiers over the voters in his backyard? The answer, Professor Warren says, is filthy lucre, i.e. campaign donations. “The Wall Street guys have been meeting aggressively to say, ‘How many different ways can we fund Scott Brown to make sure Elizabeth Warren does not go to the United States Senate?’” she has charged. A Massachusetts Democratic spokesman, Kevin Franck, made a similar charge: “It’s no surprise that Wall Street and the big banks continue to finance Scott Brown’s campaign, because he continues to put their interests first, ahead of middle-class Massachusetts families.”

Senator Brown shares with President Barack Obama the distinction of being a recipient of very generous campaign donations from Goldman Sachs, his third-largest contributor behind two Massachusetts mainstays: Boston-based Fidelity and Boston-based Liberty Mutual. If these donations make Senator Brown the “poster child for Goldman Sachs,” then we must think of a comparable epithet for Professor Warren, whose campaign also takes in a great deal of money from Wall Street — or, in the interest of more precise metonymy, from the sewers beneath Wall Street. I am in general not much of an admirer of Wall Street bankers, but the bankers are scholars and gentlemen compared to Wall Street lawyers, who combine the rapacity and cleverness of the financier with the paid-by-the-hour-plus-a percentage complacency associated with the legal profession. With apologies to Matt Taibbi, Wall Street lawyers are the sort of people who give vampire squids a bad name.

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But Cleary Gottlieb’s beneficence is not limited to Ivy League law schools. At least one lawyer in the firm has donated to the Warren campaign, and Cleary Gottlieb has an apparent interest in Massachusetts Democrats: It was a very generous benefactor of John Kerry’s presidential campaign. Beyond that donation to the Warren campaign proper, the firm’s relationship with Democrats is much deeper: Two of its attorneys by themselves have given more than $60,000 to the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, which will of course help Professor Warren. One gave another $9,200 to the DSCC, another gave $10,000 to the DNC Services Corp. The firm donates to the abortion fanatics at Emily’s List, which Catholic Massachusetts might note is Professor Warren’s largest single contributor, and the firm has made very generous contributions to the campaigns of such notable Democrats as Barack Obama, Kirsten Gillibrand, Al Franken, Mark Warner, and others. (Republicans? I found two donations to Mitt Romney. Check out the data yourself, if you’re so inclined.)

I highlighted those lines because the lawyer in question ("Wall Street Lawyers" as the article points out) is my wife. Don't recall Senator Warren having any issues cashing her check.