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To: Political Junkie Too
It would be awfully hard for the media to keep Rubin's name out of the story now, won't it?

I'm surprised that no one has looked at William B Harrison's leanings. He's the CEO of JP Morgan Chase and an old buddy of Erskine Bowles from prep school. See the following from http://www.nymag.com/page.cfm?page_id=5763

Stranger still was the firm's $60 million investment, in October 1999, in Intelisys (which became Metiom). At the time, the company was little more than an in-house software company incubated by Chase Manhattan. It aimed to develop software to feed the then booming business-to-business procurement market on the Internet. B2B, in the parlance of the time, was the hot investment theme. And since Bowles was a prep-school classmate of fellow North Carolinian and Chase CEO William Harrison, it was natural that Intelisys go first to Forstmann Little.

While Bowles was a board member of McLeod, tiny little Metiom, over which he presided as board chairman, was the company that absorbed the vast bulk of his time. For over a year, Bowles logged hundreds of hours trying vainly to use his comprehensive Rolodex to bring the company business.

It was an odd pairing. Bowles's $4.28 million salary at Forstmann Little was not far from Metiom's entire revenue. Forstmann had employed a similar strategy when he had recruited Donald Rumsfeld to whip his bedraggled General Instrument into shape in the early nineties. And Bowles did try to make some rain.

51 posted on 07/23/2002 5:55:38 PM PDT by Lessismore
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To: Lessismore
I'm surprised that no one has looked at William B Harrison's leanings. He's the CEO of JP Morgan Chase and an old buddy of Erskine Bowles...

Just like Enron -- the more the Democrats make an issue of it, and the more that people look deeper at the problem, the more they find Clinton's fingerprints and not Bush's.

-PJ

67 posted on 07/23/2002 6:10:16 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too
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