Pick your poison.  One is marked "Arsenic", the other "Cyanide":

A firm that was one of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s top financial boosters in March is owned by a former Fidelity Investments trader who settled a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation in 2008.

Seaspray Partners LLC of Palm Beach, Florida, gave $400,000 on March 1 to Restore Our Future, a political action committee that supports Romney, according to a report filed yesterday with the Federal Election Commission. It was the sixth-largest gift last month to the super-PAC backing the former Massachusetts governor.

That's nice.  Scott DeSano, who runs the firm, resigned from Fidelity in 2007 and settled an SEC investigation in 2008 alleging that he improperly accepted gifts from prospective clients.

Now why would you do something like that?  What possible motivation is there for such an action?  Oh, let your imagination run riot.

Update 4/25: Bloomberg has retracted the original article and amended the linked article with the following:

Because of a “clerical” error, the super-PAC’s public report included the wrong address for contributor SeaSpray Partners LLC, said Brittany Gross, Restore Our Future’s spokeswoman, in an e-mail. “We will be filing an amended report” to the FEC “in the coming days to reflect the correct address for the company,” she said.

Gross declined to give more information about the real SeaSpray donor while saying it “has nothing to do with” Scott DeSano, the business owner who was identified in a Bloomberg April 20 article. DeSano didn’t return a reporter’s calls before publication. After the article was published, he told Bloomberg he didn’t make the contribution.

The Market Ticker strives to be accurate; we, however, are constrained by what's reported through other media and in the public record, including FEC reports.  Since this retraction was posted by Bloomberg The Market Ticker also retracts any allegation that DeSano was involved, since that -- and the erroneous FEC filing -- is where the information came from. 

Unfortunately there is no longer any way to know who gave the $400k (or whatever it actually was, since the filing was wrong.  Mr. DeSano should not be associated with either this or Corzine, since the reports linking him to the original activity have been retracted by the source.

You don't have to use your imagination for this one though:

Jon Corzine -- under federal and congressional investigation following accusations that the securities firm he headed illegally took clients' funds before collapsing -- is among President Obama's top re-election campaign bundlers, raising at least $500,000, according to the campaign’s filing Friday with the Federal Election Commission.

Naw, in this case the issue is "in your face" to the tune of a clean billion dollars of client money that seems to be "missing."  And I put "missing" in quotes because it's not missing; nobody "loses" a billion smackers.

Oh no, they know exactly where the money is.  But receiving stolen property (in this case cash) appears not to apply to certain privileged people, and thus they haven't been forced to give it back.  Nor has anyone gone to jail for stealing it.

Now there are those, I'm sure, who argue that this isn't really stealing, but I'm also very sure that the farmers and ranchers who got hosed in the bum would disagree vehemently with that assertion.

In any event what we have here is a political class infused with sleaze and payoffs of one sort or another; if you believe there's any material difference between them you're simply nuts. Both of these candidates are not only interested in seeing you, the common man, get hosed, but they're also very interested in destroying what is left of your right to personal protection of your life and liberty.

Gee, I wonder why those two things go together?

I think I'll vote for this guy:

Beelzebub: When you just can't vote for the lesser of evils any longer.