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A top Wall Street dealmaker left an elite New York investment bank after his bosses found out he allegedly had an affair with a younger co-worker on his team.. Adam Taetle stepped down as senior managing director at Evercore — the firm founded by deep-pocketed Democratic Party operative Roger Altman — following an HR probe into the relationship... The reportedly randy rainmaker — a married father of three — exited the firm amid claims of “having a sexual relationship with a female junior employee on his team ... Evercore was founded in 1995 by Altman after he quit the first...

A senior Treasury official whose diary casts a bad light on the Administration's handling of the Whitewater affair will testify in Congress that his writings do not accurately reflect what occurred, Administration officials and Congressional investigators said today. ...Joshua L. Steiner, the Treasury Secretary's chief of staff, wrote that White House officials had put "intense pressure" on Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger C. Altman to remain involved in overseeing the Federal handling of Whitewater. Then, when Mr. Altman told senior Clinton advisers in February of his decision to remove himself from the matter, they "told RA that it was unacceptable," the...

by Mark Finkelstein June 1, 2006 For the second day running, Chris Matthews has run a Hardball segment entitled "Does Hill Fit the Bill?" It's his way of asking whether Hillary Clinton would make a good presidential candidate, and, presumably, by play-on-words, whether she's up to the political standard set by Bill. While Matthews hasn't squarely answered his own question, he clearly seems skeptical about Hillary's personal and political qualities. His first guest on the topic this evening was the urbane Roger Altman, Hillary adviser and a Deputy Treasury Secretary in the Clinton administration. Matthews grilled Altman on Hillary's hawkishness....

If John Kerry becomes President he will find himself on the horns of a dilemma - which close friend to ditch when he chooses a new Secretary of State. According to today's Washington Post, Kerry would pick his national security team within a few weeks after winning the White House and two of his closest friends, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) or Richard Holbrooke reportedly want the job of running the State Department.

Exactly 16 years ago, Lawrence Summers and I argued on this page that modern Democratic presidents, in statistical terms, had been better for American business than their Republican counterparts. We further predicted that these superior Democratic results would continue. And we questioned why the U.S. business community, in light of this record and this outlook, remained overwhelmingly Republican. Another presidential election is at hand, and this is the right moment to review those predictions. In the interim, we have conveniently experienced eight Republican presidential years and eight Democratic ones. Mr. Summers, as president of Harvard, cannot debate these issues now....

THEY are a motley team, the four members of John Kerry's war room for economic policy. Remember Roger C. Altman, the high-ranking Treasury official in the early Clinton years, forced out for being too loyal to his boss in the Whitewater investigation? He is one of them. Gene Sperling, a White House insider in all eight Clinton years, is another. Then there are two less-known 30-somethings: Jason Furman, a Harvard-trained economist, hired so recently that he is still working out of his Greenwich Village apartment, and Sarah Bianchi, who was Al Gore's policy adviser in 2000 and is now Mr....

THEY are a motley team, the four members of John Kerry's war room for economic policy. Remember Roger C. Altman, the high-ranking Treasury official in the early Clinton years, forced out for being too loyal to his boss in the Whitewater investigation? He is one of them. Gene Sperling, a White House insider in all eight Clinton years, is another. Then there are two less-known 30-somethings: Jason Furman, a Harvard-trained economist, hired so recently that he is still working out of his Greenwich Village apartment, and Sarah Bianchi, who was Al Gore's policy adviser in 2000 and is now Mr....

It's no surprise that John Kerry's plan to punish ``Benedict Arnold'' companies and create 10 million U.S. jobs in the process is reminiscent of former President Bill Clinton - a pair of his top economic aides helped come up with it. Among advisers who reportedly helped craft the Kerry plan are ex-Clinton aides Roger Altman and Gene Sperling. Altman, chairman of New York investment firm Evercore Partners, served as Deputy Treasury Secretary and Resolution Trust Corp. under Clinton. He also was president of First American Bankshares when it was sold to the notorious Bank of Commerce and Credit International, or...