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Former Barney Frank staffer now top Goldman Sachs lobbyist
By: Timothy P. Carney
Examiner Columnist
04/28/09 6:30 PM EDT
Goldman Sachs’ new top lobbyist was recently the top staffer to Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., on the House Financial Services Committee chaired by Frank.
Michael Paese, a registered lobbyist for the Securities Industries and Financial Markets Association since he left Frank’s committee in September, will join Goldman as director of government affairs, a role held last year by former Tom Daschle intimate, Mark Patterson, now the chief of staff at the Treasury Department.
This is not Paese’s first swing through the Wall Street-Congress revolving door: he previously worked at JP Morgan and Mercantile Bankshares, and in between served as senior minority counsel at the Financial Services Committee.
It’s one cozy government criminal enterprise. They flit from agency to agency and nobody gets indicted. Instead they just get rich. ON OUR DIME. At our expense and it never ends.