Subject: ethics appearance question
From: "Cassandra Butts" <[email-masked]>
To: "John Podesta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:04:46 -0400

John, see the following from one our ethics lawyers who is working to vet
the vice president's team on the transition. He flagged the entry below from
Monica Medina's resume. While her former role at Fannie Mae doesn't
represent an actual conflict with the code of conduct, it raises an
appearance issue particularly as the McCain campaign continues to try to
link Barack to Fannie and Freddie. Given that our pre-election process is
not public, I think we can get away with including Monica at this stage, but
I would counsel that we reasses her involvement in a post-election
transition. I'd appreciate your feedback. Best, Cassandra

On Sep 30, 2008, at 7:26 PM, "Schapiro, Andrew H." <[email-masked]>
wrote:

In case you don't have this yet.  Monica is Ron Klain's wife.  I assume the
following entry from her resume is not a problem for this assignment, but
flag it in an excess of caution:
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*Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Fannie Mae 2003-2005 *Led unit
charged with supporting Board of Directors oversight of executive management
and corporate governance generally within the company, including $2.6 m
annual operating budget.

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*From:* Gitenstein, Mark H.
*Sent:* Monday, September 29, 2008 2:43 PM
*To:* [email-masked]; Chris Lu
*Cc:* ted kaufman; [email-masked]; Schapiro, Andrew H.
*Subject:* FW: transition

 Carol/Chris: We would like to have Monica Medina represent Sen. Biden on
the Energy/Environment Issue Group.  Attached find her resume and ethics
form.  Thanx Markg

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