Sen. Rand Paul's hunt for political patrons took him to Manhattan this week and into the symbolic epicenter of Wall Street wealth: the Goldman Sachs headquarters.

Paul spoke Monday to a closed-door audience at the firm's 200 West offices as part of an internal company speaker series known as Talks@GS. Paul appeared before a couple hundred Goldman officials, company spokesman Andrew Williams said, and the moderated Q&A session was broadcast internally throughout the company.

 For Paul, the appearance is another example of how a candidate who first ran as an antiestablishment tea partier (his 2011 book was titled The Tea Party Goes to Washington) has wrapped his arms around the moneyed class.

Paul has been canvassing the New York donor set heavily as part of a widely expected presidential run in 2016.