Al D'Amato Quotes
Can you make me some money?
Stratton Oakmont “sold” the senator new issue stock on which he “made” $37,500 in a single day. Stratton Oakmont was found guilty of numerous violations.
Alphonse D'Amato, U. S. Senator (Republican, NY), Question asked of Stratton Oakmont brokerage official while the company was under investigation by the SEC and other agencies, 1993
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Although England had benefitted more from the industrial revolution than most nations, the English Aristocracy and its intelligencia saw business as inherently corrupt with minimal ethical standards and almost no transparency. See {629121} for a Christian religious version of this secular quotation.
Alfonse Marcello D'Amato is an American lawyer and former New York politician. A Republican, he served as United States Senator from New York from 1981 to 1999. He subsequently founded a lobbying firm, Park Strategies.