Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D‑RI), a frequent critic of Wall Street, recently purchased thousands of dollars in shares of Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs, records show.
Whitehouse purchased up to $15,000 worth of shares in the investment banking company Goldman Sachs in late June, according to a financial disclosure report he submitted to the Senate this week. The stock buy comes on the heels of Whitehouse informing the upper chamber in his annual report last year that his wife, Sandra Whitehouse, owns shares in Goldman Sachs, while the senator himself disclosed having as much as $250,000 in shares and also Goldman Sachs mutual funds.
Whitehouse’s investment comes as the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee has long positioned himself as one of the loudest voices in the Senate criticizing Wall Street. He’s called to rein in interest rates for credit cards to “protect citizens from Wall Street greed” and accused Wall Street of unethically profiting from “Big Oil” allegedly engaging in price gouging.
Whitehouse held a …