Sunlight Foundation

Finance world big backer of Senator Reed

Publication: The Providence Journal

John E. Mulligan
October 12, 2008

WASHINGTON –– Sen. Jack Reed, a key supporting player in this month’s launch of a $700-billion rescue of the financial system, has taken a large fraction of his multimillion-dollar reelection fund from people in banking, securities, real estate and insurance — the industries with the biggest direct stake in the historic federal intervention.