Goldman Sachs Sends Its Regrets to This Awkward Dinner Invitation

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    Earlier this month, hundreds of New Yorkers received an unusual dinner invitation from the Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union.

    The Credit Union, a small lender serving New York’s poor, was holding a fund-raiser to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Among the chief sponsors listed on the invitation was Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

    Among the honorees: “Occupy Wall Street.”

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    On one side was Goldman Sachs, which told the credit union it didn’t want its name or money used to celebrate a protest movement known for placards like “Goldman Sachs is the work of the devil,” dinner organizers said. The investment bank’s giant glass-and-steel headquarters tower is just blocks away from the protest headquarters in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park