A message from Randall
To: All AT&T employees worldwide
Team,
Our company has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons these last few days and our reputation
has been damaged. There is no other way to say it – AT&T hiring Michael Cohen as a political consultant
was a big mistake.
To be clear, everything we did was done according to the law and entirely legitimate. But the fact is, our
past association with Cohen was a serious misjudgment. In this instance, our Washington D.C. team's
vetting process clearly failed, and I take responsibility for that. Here is more information on this issue, if
you're interested.
For the foreseeable future, the External & Legislative Affairs (E&LA) group will report to our General
Counsel David McAtee. Bob Quinn, Senior Executive Vice President - E&LA, will be retiring.
David's number one priority is to ensure every one of the individuals and firms we use in the political
arena are people who share our high standards and who we would be proud to have associated with
AT&T.
To all of you who work tirelessly every day to serve customers and represent the brand proudly, thank
you. My personal commitment to you is – we will do better.