Harold McEwen Ickes (Harold M. Ickes), a New York lawyer and lobbyist, served from 1994 until late in 1996 as Deputy Chief of Staff in the William Jefferson Clinton Administration. Ickes' firm -- Ickes and Enright Group -- is part of Washington D.C.-based lobbying firm Griffin Johnson Dover & Stewart.
Ickes chaired Clinton's presidential campaign in New York in 1992. Before that, Ickes was a senior advisor to David Dinkins' successful mayoral election. He returned to private life in 1997. Ickes' father (Harold LeClaire Ickes (1874-1952)[1]) served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1933-1946) during the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration.
Ickes was linked to a series of scandals and investigations at the Clinton White House:
Travelgate
See Harold Ickes' Deposition made June 14, 1996, to the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, U.S. House of Representatives.
Monica Lewinski Scandal
Labor Union/Teamsters Campaign Funding
Ickes is said to have "represented many labor unions over the years. Some of those unions -- the Laborers, Local 100 of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union in New York, Teamsters Local 239 in New York, and the District Council of Carpenters in New York -- have extensive ties to organized crime, according to federal prosecutors. In fact, Ickes's ties to corrupt unions were so extensive that the White House deemed it impossible to nominate him for a job that required Senate confirmation and placed him instead in the position of deputy chief of staff."[2]
"In the financial disclosure statement that Ickes was required to file upon entering the White House, he says he left his law firm (Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein) in December 1993. Ickes listed two Laborers union organizations among the 199 clients he handled between 1989 and 1993. Those organizations were the Laborers and Employers Cooperation and Education Trust and the Laborers New York State Political Action Committee. Both were groups that engaged in lobbying and political activity for the union."[3]