Report: Clinton Was Paid $50,000 Per Month by Corzine’s Collapsed Firm

by Stephan Tawney on December 5, 2011

According to reports, former President Bill Clinton was paid $50,000 per month by Jon Corzine’s now-bankrupty firm MF Global. The firm and its leadership, including former Governor and Democratic donor Corzine, are now under investigation in relation to missing investor money.

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.

The contract, which lasted five months, was only canceled after Corzine’s resignation in November.

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.

It has been discovered that hundreds of millions of dollars are missing from investor accounts, and it has been alleged that Corzine and his associates were making investments using investor money without their permission. The firm was heavily invested in European debt.



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