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ALFONSE D'AMATO has received funds from Bear Stearns and GoldmanSachs.

Crain's New York Business, October, 1998 by Lipowicz, Alice

BUSINESS PICKS SIDES IN FIERCE US SENATE RACE: SOME FIRMS RISK CHOOSING BETWEEN D'AMATO, SCHUMER; OTHERS HEDGE BETS New York business interests are taking sides in the bitter contest between GOP Sen. Alfonse D'Amato and Democratic challenger Rep. Charles Schumer, even though backing one or the other could mean getting frozen out in Washington or Albany in the future.

The political action committees of Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and the Securities Industry Association have been contributing only to Mr. D'Amato's campaign in the past two years, according to election data compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics in Washington. "Our philosophy is to support the incumbent, who endorses the free-enterprise principles we feel...

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