Cody Shearer?
Shearers career took a strange turn when the Clintons entered the White House in 1992. His entrée into the first familys orbit was Strobe Talbott, Shearers brother-in-law, who had been a friend of Bill Clinton since the presidents days at Oxford. Talbott served as a deputy secretary in Bill Clintons State Department; his brother-in-law took a different route, allegedly working with Clinton enforcer Terry Lenzner to investigate and, at times, intimidate women who accused Bill Clinton of sexual harassment.
But Shearers political intrigues in the 90s extended beyond U.S. shores. In the middle of the decade, for reasons that remain unclear, he traveled to Europe to negotiate with associates of Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian-Serb president known to have orchestrated the mass killings of Bosnian Muslims including the Srebrenica genocide during the brutal Yugoslav Wars. Representing himself as an agent of the State Department, Shearer told his Serbian contacts, which included members of Karadzics family, that he could reduce the severity of impending war-crimes charges if Karadzic surrendered. He claimed he was in contact not only with his brother-in-law, but also with then-secretary of state Madeleine Albright and even with President Clinton himself.