Sandy Treadwell is asking U.S. Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-Greenport, to return $6,000 in campaign contributions she received from Lehman Brothers Holdings.

The Republican challenger said in a statement that Lehman chief executive Robert Fuld Jr.’s testimony before a Congressional committee Monday “clearly exposed the recklessness of Wall Street’s quest for profit at all costs, and worse, the continuing, inexplicable greed of high-ranking financial officers who put personal benefit far ahead of fiscal responsibility.”

Treadwell also asked Gillibrand and other members of Congress to stop accepting contributions from any financial firms that benefit from the federal bailout.

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