Disgusting : Wall Streeters Mock Occupy and Poor People at Fancy Frat Party

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    A Raucous Hazing at a Wall St. Fraternity - NYTimes.com
    ►http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/raucous-hazing-at-a-wall-st-fraternity

    The chandelier-filled ballroom was teeming with 200 men in tuxedos — and a smattering of women — whose daily decisions can collectively make or break the global financial markets. Most were picking over a lavish dinner that included rack of lamb and crème brûlée. Others were preparing to sing bawdy show tunes.

    Kappa Beta Phi, an exclusive Wall Street fraternity whose members include big-name bankers, hedge fund billionaires and private equity titans, met at the St. Regis Hotel in Manhattan on Thursday night for its 80th annual black-tie dinner and induction ceremony.

    As always, the event was held in strict secrecy, with members being told that “what happens at the St. Regis stays at the St. Regis.”

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      Disgusting: Wall Streeters Mock Occupy and Poor People at Fancy Frat Party
      One of the things that makes Wall Streeters so unsympathetic is that, even when disdain for their greed has not just spread across America but across the world, they don’t seem to realize it. And if they do? Well, they don’t give a flying fuck.

      Last week, an exclusive Wall Street fraternity, Kappa Beta Phi, held a super-fancy black-tie dinner at the St. Regis Hotel in Manhattan, and a New York Times reporter was able to witness it. What he saw was behavior so appalling and unsympathetic to the plight of the poor it was almost a parody of itself:

      The Occupy movement was fodder for several after-dinner skits. In one, a documentary filmed during the protests, James Lebenthal, a bond specialist, joked with a protester whose face was appeared to be tattooed.

      “Go home, wash that off your face, and get back to work,” Mr. Lebenthal told the protester.
      ►http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/765357/disgusting:_wall_streeters_mock_occupy_and_poor_people_at_fancy_frat_party

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