{"id":25188,"date":"2011-10-04T07:44:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T11:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=25188"},"modified":"2011-10-04T07:44:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T11:44:22","slug":"hedge-funds-pay-top-dollar-for-washington-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2011\/hedge-funds-pay-top-dollar-for-washington-intelligence.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Pay Top Dollar for Washington Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; At a breakfast fund-raiser last year at the Liaison Capitol Hill hotel, former lobbyist Paul Equale pulled up a chair next to Sen. Richard Durbin. As they chatted, the Illinois Democrat told him about a recent breakthrough in his efforts to push through a bill to cap debit-card fees.<\/p>\n<p>In Washington, such shop talk between political insiders is so routine that it hardly warrants mention. For Mr. Equale, however, it yields intelligence that fetches good money on Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424053111904070604576514791591319306.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong> (subscription\u00a0required)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; At a breakfast fund-raiser last year at the Liaison Capitol Hill hotel, former lobbyist Paul Equale pulled up a chair next to Sen. Richard Durbin. As they chatted, the Illinois Democrat told him about a recent breakthrough in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25189,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25188\/revisions\/25189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}