LEHMAN BROTHERS as FEC employer text: $8.8 million

A historic firm name still on itemized receipts

LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. LEHMAN BROTHERS is the form committees stored when filers typed that two-word name. The $8,758,084 total is those itemized individual gifts. It is not a NAICS 5231 brokerage rollup, not Barclays or successor PAC spending, and not underwriting volume.

People who typed LEHMAN BROTHERS HOLDINGS, BARCLAYS, INVESTMENT BANKER, or SALOMON BROTHERS INC sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into LEHMAN BROTHERS. Alumni who still type the historic name remain among the 745. The FEC field is not a current employment census.

745 donors and 16,849 lines

745 unique donors produced 16,849 LEHMAN BROTHERS contribution lines totaling $8,758,084. That is on the order of 23 itemized receipts per donor. Unique-donor count sits between thinner GOLDMAN SACHS & COMPANY and larger FIDELITY INVESTMENTS clusters in this dollar band. The packet does not publish a mean gift as its own FEC field.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and successor PAC filings are outside the $8,758,084 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear. Repeat names among 16,849 lines are expected.

Salomon, First Boston, and Morgan Stanley stay separate

SALOMON BROTHERS INC, FIRST BOSTON CORP, MORGAN STANLEY & CO INC, and GOLDMAN SACHS & COMPANY are separate employer-name keys. Combining them with LEHMAN BROTHERS would invent a historic-broker recode. This page stays at $8,758,084 for LEHMAN BROTHERS only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside the firm — managing director, trader, retired — as typed. BANKER as an industry key still holds people who put the title in the employer box instead of this company name.

Donor table without bankruptcy inference

The LEHMAN BROTHERS donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a 2008 filing, a successor merger, or a motive to that line. Coverage spans the years those receipts were disclosed.

Follow committees on the table for party and office. This guide does not assign a partisan percentage to the historic name. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts only.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $8,758,084, 16,849 contributions, 745 donors, top employer LEHMAN BROTHERS. Labels are FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Unitemized gifts, state races, and successor PACs are omitted.

Compare SALOMON BROTHERS INC and FIRST BOSTON CORP on the industry index. Occupation breakdowns show titles beside LEHMAN BROTHERS. Cite $8,758,084 from FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a NAICS securities table.

Successor firms and other historic brokers stay out

LEHMAN BROTHERS is not LEHMAN BROTHERS HOLDINGS, not BARCLAYS, and not SALOMON BROTHERS INC or FIRST BOSTON CORP. Those strings sit on other keys. The $8,758,084 total, 16,849 contribution lines, and 745 donors describe this two-word historic name only. MORGAN STANLEY & CO INC and GOLDMAN SACHS & COMPANY remain sibling firm-name rows. BANKER is a title-style key.

Unitemized gifts, state races, successor PAC filings, and underwriting volume stay outside the $8,758,084. Occupation pages show titles beside LEHMAN BROTHERS. Alumni who still type the historic name remain in the 745. The FEC field is not a current employment census and not NAICS 5231.

Open the LEHMAN BROTHERS donor table for disclosed names and committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution, not a 2008-filing or successor-merger inference. Cite $8,758,084, 16,849 contributions, and 745 donors from FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Labels are FEC employer/occupation self-reports. Do not add other historic brokers to this two-word name.

Researchers who want a historic-broker recode must list SALOMON BROTHERS INC, FIRST BOSTON CORP, and successor legal names as separate additions. The $8,758,084 figure does not absorb those rows. It stays on LEHMAN BROTHERS as 745 donors and 16,849 lines. BANKER remains a title-style key. Follow recipient committees on the LEHMAN BROTHERS donor table. Party share is not computed on the industry headline. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault, self-reported employer text, not NAICS 5231 and not a current HR roster.

Questions

How much have LEHMAN BROTHERS-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $8,758,084 to the LEHMAN BROTHERS employer string, from 16,849 contributions and 745 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a successor-firm PAC and not a NAICS securities total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted from that figure.

Is this a current company PAC?

No. The $8,758,084 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to LEHMAN BROTHERS as stored on FEC receipts. Successor-firm PAC filings are other categories. The FEC field is not a current HR roster. Figures here are limited to that FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Does this include Salomon or First Boston employees?

No. SALOMON BROTHERS INC and FIRST BOSTON CORP are separate employer strings. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text LEHMAN BROTHERS. Staff who typed only BANKER sit in that occupation-style row instead. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts only.

How many unique donors listed LEHMAN BROTHERS?

The rollup counts 745 donors and 16,849 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count — on the order of 23 itemized receipts per donor. This is not a current employee headcount. Coverage is itemized federal receipts only. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.