PrintI missed this nice scoop from Mike Allen Tuesday:
Former White House press secretary Jake Siewert is preparing for a return to government as a top counselor to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Democratic sources said.
According to the sources, Siewert has been in talks with White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel about joining the Treasury staff, and an agreement is nearly complete.
Siewert was a longtime strategist with the National Economic Council and a veteran of the Clinton White House communications team before becoming the Clinton administration's last White House press secretary. Since 2001, he has been a senior executive at Alcoa, the nation's top nonferrous metals firm, most recently running mergers and acquisitions.
Siewert is a close friend of Geithner, and during the transition there was published speculation he would join the Treasury team at a senior level.
Hmmm... There was indeed published speculation--I think it's safe to say Allen owns the Siewert beat. (We kid because we love, Mike!)
(Via Tim Fernholz.)
--Noam Scheiber
COMMENTS (2)
From press sec. to mergers and acquisitions? Is he boy genius or just well connected?
From press sec. to mergers and acquisitions? Is he boy genius or just well connected?
Stash:
Since 2001, he has been a senior executive at Alcoa, the nation's top nonferrous metals firm, most recently running mergers and acquisitions.
george:
Gee, another Wall Street adulator is on board at Treasury. I can just imagine Tim and Larry and Rahm and Jake going well into the night regaling Obama and the bank CEOs with all their exploits when they walked "the Street".
And just today, Obama proposes $17,000,000,000 in cuts from the budget [some good, some bad] while proposing in turn that the banks need another $75,000,000,000.
Thank God TNR has The Stash ready, willing and able to expose this fraud for what it is.
Aside to Noam:
I forgot what you posted about the nature o ... view full comment
Stash:
Since 2001, he has been a senior executive at Alcoa, the nation's top nonferrous metals firm, most recently running mergers and acquisitions.
george:
Gee, another Wall Street adulator is on board at Treasury. I can just imagine Tim and Larry and Rahm and Jake going well into the night regaling Obama and the bank CEOs with all their exploits when they walked "the Street".
And just today, Obama proposes $17,000,000,000 in cuts from the budget [some good, some bad] while proposing in turn that the banks need another $75,000,000,000.
Thank God TNR has The Stash ready, willing and able to expose this fraud for what it is.
Aside to Noam:
I forgot what you posted about the nature of this fraud. Could you repost it? Thanks.
george walton