Subject: Re: Fw: FYI
From: Cheryl Mills <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 13:48:42 -0500

K - will send this to them in a revised version and ask them their take on
it - doing now.

cdm

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:24 AM, John Podesta <[email-masked]> wrote:

> I like this, but think we need one more round with Doug, Justin and
> Terry to nail down that Doug and Justin will support this; then figure
> out who can run the personal office.
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Cheryl Mills <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
> > What do you think of the proposed structure I sent the saturday b/f last?
> > Attaching it again.  It essentially creates a full-time Personal office
> of
> > the President headed by a new CEO/COS.  That person -- who is
> unaffiliated
> > with any of the entities or Teneo -- b/cs the decisionmaker on the
> > allocation of the President's time and management and implementation of
> the
> > President's desires with respect to each activity.  Doug and Justin
> advise
> > that person but do not make final decisions or have final implementation
> > authority on any matters - which is consistent with what Doug has said he
> > seeks - the ability to recommend but for others to be accountable for
> making
> > the ultimate decisions.  This does turn on who we can hire to be
> effectively
> > an alter ego for WJC as this is role Doug played b/f Teneo -- Bruce never
> > did.
> >
> > Happy to do a call today or any day this week if we pick the time.
> >
> > cdm
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 6:12 PM, John Podesta <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> From: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
> >> Date: Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 6:12 PM
> >> Subject: Re: Fw: FYI
> >> To: [email-masked]
> >> Cc: Bruce Lindsey <[email-masked]>, Victoria B Bjorklund
> >> <[email-masked]>, Jennifer Reynoso <[email-masked]>, Terry
> >> McAuliffe <[email-masked]>
> >>
> >>
> >> We need to move to a resolution of this quickly.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:34 AM,  <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >> > John, Bruce, Terry, Victoria, Jennifer - fyi re: below. I've asked
> that
> >> > it make my father's clips (it wld historically not as I understand
> it).
> >> > On another note, I was in London Sunday and did a Foundation event
> >> > Sunday evening and two people separately voiced concerns directly to
> me
> >> > about Teneo, neither of whom I know well (one of whom is a friend of
> one of
> >> > Marc's old colleagues, ie we know only tangentially) and Sara Latham
> (whom
> >> > Victoria and Jennifer, I do know well - she worked for my Dad in the
> WH and
> >> > lives in London) voiced serious concerns to Bari - including telling
> her
> >> > Ilya has called Members of the House and Members of Parliament, "on
> behalf
> >> > of President Clinton," for Teneo clients (eg for Andrew Liveris and
> Dow
> >> > who's coming this month to London), without my father's knowledge and
> >> > inelegantly and ineffectually at best and at worse has now
> precipitating
> >> > people in London making comparisons between my father and Tony Blair's
> >> > profit motivations. Which would horrify my father. Sara also told
> Bari she
> >> > started working for Teneo, as Teneo, more than a year ago and then
> recently
> >> > stopped because she was so upset, partly because of what Doug and
> Declan
> >> > asked her to do/  pretend was happening for their clients at Davos-
> that's
> >> > all I know. I am hoping to connect directly with Sara this week, if
> only to
> >> > connect her belatedly into Victoria and Jennifer.
> >> > I'm speaking at an innovations in governance conference today here in
> >> > Oxford and flying back later this afternoon. I will raise all of this
> and
> >> > more with my father this evening. Wanted to update you all in the
> meanwhile
> >> > about my augmented concerns post London and the below. Thank you.
> >> > Chelsea
> >> >
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: "Bari Lurie" <[email-masked]>
> >> > Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 23:38:28
> >> > To: CVC<[email-masked]>
> >> > Reply-To: [email-masked]
> >> > Subject: FYI
> >> >
> >> > Claim: Clinton Collected $50K Per Month From MF Global
> >> > Former president's new firm Teneo Strategy was hired to boost
> >> > Corzine.by Neil W. McCabe12/05/2011
> >> >
> >> > A former MF Global employee accused former president William J.
> Clinton
> >> > of collecting $50,000 per month through his Teneo advisory firm in the
> >> > months before the brokerage careened towards its Halloween filing for
> >> > Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
> >> >
> >> > Teneo was hired by MF Global’s former CEO Jon S. Corzine to improve
> his
> >> > image and to enhance his connections with Clinton’s political family,
> said
> >> > the employee, who asked that his name be withheld because he feared
> >> > retribution.
> >> >
> >> > “They were supposed to be helping Corzine improve his image as a CEO—I
> >> > guess you can tell how that went,” he said. Corzine resigned as CEO
> and
> >> > chairman November 4.
> >> >
> >> > Before Corzine joined MF Global in May 2010, the firm was a smart and
> >> > well-run commodities broker, a culture that was turned upside-down by
> his
> >> > leadership style, he said.
> >> >
> >> > “The traders would be shaking their heads,” he said. “They would come
> >> > back to their desk and say, ‘Well, I thought we were going to do
> this—but
> >> > Corzine would come by and do something else all by himself,’” he said.
> >> >
> >> > The Teneo contract with MF Global lasted at least five months, he
> said.
> >> > “The board cancelled it after Corzine resigned.”
> >> >
> >> > The source, who is no longer associated with MF Global, said Teneo is
> a
> >> > dual-track company with one side devoted to merchant and investment
> banking
> >> > and the other side set up to provide image and strategy consulting
> services.
> >> >
> >> > Clinton is the chairman of the company’s advisory board. His duties
> and
> >> > compensation have not been released. The other member of the board is
> former
> >> > British prime minister Tony Blair.
> >> >
> >> > Two of the three founding partners are very close to the former
> >> > president and his wife, Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton. They
> are
> >> > Douglas J. Band, who is the former president’s counselor and has
> served on
> >> > his personal staff since 1995 and Declan Kelly, who earned the
> “Hillraiser”
> >> > status in the secretary’s 2008 run for president for bundling more
> than
> >> > $100,000 for the campaign.
> >> >
> >> > Another prominent member of the Clinton political family is Tom Shea.
> >> > Shea is a senior vice president for Teneo Strategy and served as
> Corzine’s
> >> > chief of staff, when Corzine was the governor of New Jersey.
> >> >
> >> > Kelly sold his public relations firm Financial Dynamics in 2006 to FTI
> >> > for $340 million, and stayed with that company until July 2009, when
> he
> >> > joined the State Department as the Economic Envoy to Northern Ireland.
> >> >
> >> > The source said, “Kelly was given a job they created out our whole
> >> > cloth.” The job did not exist previously.
> >> >
> >> > “He basically got to ride around developing a book of business, while
> he
> >> > waited for his non-compete clause to run out,” he said.
> >> >
> >> > Kelley and the former president traveled together networking and
> making
> >> > introductions at international conferences and events, he said.
> >> >
> >> > The Secretary of State also traveled with Kelly, including the October
> >> > 2010 U.S. – Northern Ireland Economics Conference, which Kelly
> organized and
> >> > at which the secretary was the featured speaker.
> >> >
> >> > The secretary announced that she accepted Kelly’s resignation May 11.
> >> >
> >> > Teneo landed its first major client June 1, when the Rockefeller
> >> > Foundation gave Teneo a $3,447,150, six-month contract to help plan
> the
> >> > foundation’s 2013 centennial.
> >> >
> >> > The foundation is another member of the Clinton’s extended family. It
> >> > gave Clinton its Lifetime Innovation Achievement Award July 27 and the
> >> > foundation is listed as a between $1 to $5 million contributor to the
> >> > William J. Clinton Foundation, along with several members of the
> Rockefeller
> >> > family who are listed as individual contributors.
> >
> >
>