In Emanuel emails, players ask favors big and small
In April 2014, investment banker Byron Trott sent an email to Mayor Rahm Emanuel's personal account in which he promised to co-host a political fundraiser, before making a series of requests that included asking that the mayor provide high-level access to a new executive at Trott's firm.
"Both Erskine and I are looking forward to hosting a fundraiser for you in June — our teams are working together on finding a date and a place for this as I write," Trott wrote, apparently referring to former Clinton White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, whom Emanuel served with as a top Bill Clinton presidential adviser. Bowles is an adviser to Trott's namesake investment bank, BDT Capital Partners.
"Given your broad support base, the only challenge will be to find some who haven't already maxed out!" wrote Trott, whose bank is housed in the Wrigley Building, which BDT also owns.
A little more than an hour later, mayoral aide Jasmine Magana forwarded the email to both the mayor's campaign fundraising coordinator, Anne Olaimey, and administration aides David Spielfogel and Abby Masters with the message: "The Mayor wanted me to pass on to you all."
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