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NOTE: In early 1989, Malek joined the Carlyle Group as a senior adviser. On
April 19, 1989, he led a group of investors to purchase the Coldwell Banker
Commercial Group, the nation's largest commercial real estate services company, from
Sears, Roebuck and Company at a price estimated at $300 million. . . .
In July 1989, Malek and a group of Carlyle investors bought Marriott's leading airline
catering division for an estimated price of $650 million. In 1991 Malek created Thayer
Capital Partners, of which he is still Chairman. From January 1, 2002 to December 31,
2005, Malek was a member of the Board of Directors of Fannie Mae. . . .
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Fred Malek, a heavyweight Republican
fundraiser and kingmaker, has singled
out former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt
Romney as the GOP’s leading contender
in the early stages of the 2012
Republican presidential derby.
In a largely
AP Photo
to his blog late last week,
Malek, a wealthy businessman who served as national finance co-chair of
John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, ranked Romney No. 1 on a list
of influential Republicans “who might both lead our party back and who
might be our nominee in 2012.”
Malek, who did not return an email requesting comment from POLITICO,
blogged that Romney has “the established organization, fundraising network,
time, and talent to get the nomination this time” and predicted he could “be
in the best position when the serious campaigning begins in early 2011.”
Though Malek conceded Romney “does retain an image problem with some
Republicans, who are not sold on his conservative credentials or upset with
him for changing his emphasis of issues from his time as governor to
presidential candidate,” he called Romney “self-aware and very smart.”

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frederic Vincent "Fred" Malek[1] (born December 22, 1936) is the former President of Marriott Hotels and
Northwest Airlines and former assistant to United States Presidents Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush.
Malek served as a National Finance Committee co-chair of John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign. In 2011,
he received the Horatio Alger Award.[2]
1 Early life
2 Political career
2.1 Nixon administration
2.2 BLS controversy
2.3 Bush administration
2.4 American Action Network
3 Business career
3.1 Marriott Corp.
3.2 Northwest Airlines
3.3 SEC administrative action
3.4 Virginia government reform commission
4 Other work
5 Personal life
6 Published works
7 References
8 External links
Malek was born in Berwyn, Illinois of Czech and Yugoslav descent,[3][4] the son of a beer truck driver.[1] He
was raised in Chicago. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science from West Point in 1959,[5] and served in
Vietnam with Army Special Forces as an airborne ranger. He received his M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business
School in 1964 and worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Co.. He and two classmates made a
pact to purchase a business together; two would work and support the third while he scouted out opportunities.
In 1967, he left McKinsey and, with his partners, purchased Triangle Corp., a struggling hand tool
manufacturing company in Orangeburg, South Carolina. [6][5]
Nixon administration
Malek served in the Nixon administration in several different roles, including Deputy Under Secretary of
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare under Secretary Robert Finch, as special assistant from 1970–73
and deputy director of Nixon's re-election campaign.[7] Malek served as deputy chief of the Committee to
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Re-elect the President in 1972.[8]
As an efficiency expert to Nixon, Malek helped restructure Nixon's staff and officials and streamline the
bureaucracy.[9] In his memoirs, Nixon described Malek as a "tough young businessman whose specialty was
organization and management."[10]
In the first Nixon administration, Malek designed and directed the "Responsiveness Program", a strategy to
replace civil servants with Nixon supporters and to steer government resources to benefit Nixon's 1972
re-election.[11][12][13] According to the Senate Watergate report, Malek wrote in a 1972 memo to Haldeman
that someone was needed to "take the lead in the program to politicize Departments and Agencies" and to
"supervise the patronage operation and closely monitor the grantmanship operation."[14] In advocating the plan,
Malek wrote of "substantial risks" to politicizing the Executive Branch and expressed concern that the plan
would "undoubtably backfire" if made public; therefore he recommended that "to minimize any links to the
President, there should be no directions on this project in writing."[15]
Malek was sworn in as Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget on February 2, 1973 and
served until 1975 when he resigned to re-enter the private sector.
BLS controversy
In 1971, Richard Nixon became convinced the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) had come under the control of
Democratic rivals and what Nixon termed a "Jewish cabal." He instructed aides Charles Colson and H. R.
Haldeman to identify a list of Democrats and "important Jewish officials" at the agency.[16]
Malek provided the data on Democrats after a check of voter registration rolls, but balked at fulfilling the rest of
Nixon's query. "I refused four times. The fifth time he came back and gave me a direct order through Haldeman,
so I gave him a number. I regret my compliance. It was a mistake."[17] Malek did not have access to BLS
employees' religious affiliations, so his list comprised those BLS employees with "Jewish-sounding names", and
two months after he sent the list, two of the officials on it were reassigned to "less visible jobs" within the Labor
Dept.[18] Slate columnist Timothy Noah, however, asserts that a September 8, 1971 memo from Malek to
Haldeman appears to contradict Malek's assertions of limited involvement, in which Malek states he has
recommended to the Secretary of Labor "fairly drastic moves" including the "compromise" reassignment of
three officials. Documents released by the Nixon library in January 2010 also appear to contradict Malek's
statement.[16][19][20]
Seymour D. Reich, chairman of Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations during the
1990s, said "Malek made a mistake 18 years ago when he agreed to a regrettable request by President Nixon."
But he added, Malek "has taken pains to assure the Jewish community that he realizes his error and that he
intended no harm. I believe he is sincere."[21] In 2010, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Ca.) called Malek "a man of
high principle" who "has proved many times over the years his loyalty to the highest principles of freedom,
human rights and international tolerance.".[22]
Bush administration
In September 1989, Malek was appointed by President Bush to coordinate plans for the 1990 economic summit
of industrialized nations. The appointment was seen as a test of whether Malek could successfully serve in the
administration. Malek had been a deputy chairman of the RNC in charge of the national convention in 1988 and
was said to be "on track" for chief of staff in the Bush White House, but resigned to dissasociate the Vice
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President from negative publicity from the Nixon administration controversy.[23]
The appointment proved a success, and in 1992 Bush appointed Fred Malek campaign manager for his
re-election. Malek was "responsible for nuts-and-bolts daily management." Malek ran the campaign with
fundraiser Robert Mosbacher and pollster Robert Teeter out of a rented office in downtown Washington.[24]
Malek also served as co-chairman of the finance committee for John McCain in 2008,[25] raising $500,000 for
his presidential campaign.[26]
American Action Network
Malek is founder, chairman and one of three primary financial supporters of the American Action Network, a
501(c)(4) conservative "think and do" tank established in January 2010 to assist the election of "center-right"
Republican candidates.[27][28] Malek also chairs the Executive roundtable meetings of the Republican
Governors Association, an organization supporting the election of Republican governors.[29]
Marriott Corp.
In 1975, Fred Malek joined the board of Bethesda-based Marriott Corp., where he oversaw Marriott's hotel
business, its design and construction division, and Sun Line Cruises. He was elected executive vice president of
Marriott in March 1978, adding to his duties oversight of Marriott's contract food services group.[30] Under
Malek's oversight of the hotel and resort division from 1981 to 1988, earnings increased nearly fourfold, or 18
percent a year, during a period that encompassed a recession, industry overbuilding and profit declines by
competitors.[31]
In early 1989, Malek j
y joined the Carlyle Group as a senior adviser. On April 19, 1989, he led a g p of investors
y p p group
to p
purchase the Coldwell Banker Commercial Group, the nation's largest commercial real estate services
p g
company, from Sears, Roebuck and Company at a price estimated at $300 million.
Northwest Airlines
Malek soon joined Los Angeles investor Al Checchi and Marriott's Gary Wilson in a $3.65 billion, all-cash
purchase of Northwest Airlines. The investor group, including representatives of the Bass brothers, and Bankers
Trust New York Corp. was joined in the leveraged buyout by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Elders IXL, which
contributed $480 million in equity. Malek and Checchi joined the airline's 10-member board.[32] Checchi named
Malek as president to replace president and CEO John Horn, and the two split the chairman duties held by
Steven Rothmeier.[33]
In July 1989, Malek and a g p of Carlyle investors bought Marriott's leading airline catering division for an
group
price of $650 million.[34] In 1991 Malek created Thayer Capital Partners, of which he is still
estimated p [
Chairman.[35] From January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2005, Malek was a member of the Board of Directors of
[
Fannie Mae.[36]
[36]
SEC administrative action
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On August 12, 2003, the SEC filed a civil fraud lawsuit[37] against former Connecticut state Senate Majority
Leader William DiBella for participating in a fraudulent scheme to invest $75 million of the state pension funds
with Malek's firm, Thayer Capital Partners.[37][38] The SEC said that Thayer failed to disclose payments to
DiBella who performed "no meaningful work" and was hired by Thayer at the request of the state treasurer.[39]
On May 18, 2007, DiBella and North Cove were found liable for aiding and abetting Silvester's intentional
violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and Thayer was found in negligence of Investment Advisers
Act of 1940. Thayer paid a civil penalty of $150,000, and Malek personally paid a fine of $100,000.[40]
Virginia government reform commission
On May 7, 2010, Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell appointed Malek to chair a 31-member commission to
find efficiencies and savings in government.[25] Critics objected to Malek's appointment based on both the BLS
g g [25]
j pp
and SEC administrative action and McDonnell responded that he did not know of these parts of Malek's
past.[19][39][41][42]
In 2008, Malek was nominated to the Board of Visitors of the United States Military Academy at West Point by
the President of the United States at the time, George W. Bush.[43] As of 2011, he holds the position of
Chairman of this board.[44] He has been a philanthropic support of West Point, underwriting the Malek Tennis
Center. “Harvard was extraordinarily helpful in teaching me to analyze problems on a purely academic front,"
Malek has said. "It did more than that, actually. But in terms of overall effect, it was not even close to the U.S.
Military Academy in making me who I am. West Point builds the entire structure of the man, the values of the
man. It develops you in the whole.”[5]
On Tuesday, May 29, 2012, Marymount University celebrated the formal renaming of its School of Health
Professions in honor of Fred and Marlene Malek. Mrs. Marlene Malek graduated from the school in 1979 and is
a member of the Marymount Board of Trustees. The School of Health Professions was renamed "Malek School
of Health Professions" to honor the Maleks' ongoing commitment to Marymount University.[45]
Malek is married to Marlene A. Malek. They have two children, and reside in McLean, Virginia.[46]
In 1959, at age 22, Malek was arrested along with five other men in Vicary's Park near Peoria, Illinois, after
police found their car spattered with blood, and a dog that had been skinned, gutted and spitted over a barbecue
pit in the park. Malek and the other men were charged with cruelty to animals, but the charges against Malek
were dropped after one of the others confessed to killing the dog and said he acted alone. Malek has claimed
that he did not participate in the incident.[38]
Malek is a "fitness fanatic" who has kept up healthy habits since West Point. A skiing accident in the mid-1980s
left Malek with an artificial hip, which forced him to switch from running to lifting weights, swimming and
bicycling.[31]
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Hidden Tragedy: The Failure to Make Government Work, Fred Malek, Free Press, 1979.[3]
(http://www.amazon.ca/Washingtons-Hidden-Tragedy-Failure-Government/dp/0029197902)
1. ^ a b Leubsdorf, Carl P. (1990-06-24). "Return to grace Summit chief sheds stigma of Nixon-era incident"
(http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DM&p_theme=dm&p_action=search&
p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0ED3D10D704D475A&p_field_direct-0=document_id&
p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM) . The Dallas Morning News. http://nl.newsbank.com
/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DM&p_theme=dm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&
p_text_direct-0=0ED3D10D704D475A&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&
s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved 2010-06-07.
2. ^ "Frederic V. Malek Named 2011 Horatio Alger Award Recipient" (http://horatioalger.com/news/11Malek.cfm) .
Horatio Alger Association. http://horatioalger.com/news/11Malek.cfm. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
3. ^ Cannon, Lou (1972-10-17). "The Hard Hats Are At The Throttle" (http://news.google.com
/newspapers?id=MT0gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mmYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5357,264369&dq=the-hard-hats-are-at-
the-throttle&hl=en) . Sarasota Herald-Tribune. pp. 4. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MT0gAAAAIBAJ&
sjid=mmYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5357,264369&dq=the-hard-hats-are-at-the-throttle&hl=en. Retrieved 2010-05-01.
4. ^ [1] (http://books.google.ca/books?id=Lo0nAQAAMAAJ&q=%22+parentshis+father+%22&
dq=%22+parentshis+father+%22&hl=en&redir_esc=y)
5. ^ a b c Zinsmeister, Karl (Spring 2011). "Spartan Donors" (http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/topic
/excellence_in_philanthropy/spartan_donors) . Philanthropy. http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/topic
/excellence_in_philanthropy/spartan_donors. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
6. ^ Nomination of Frederic V. Malek To Be a Governor of the United States Postal Service
(http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/print.php?pid=44015) , John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American
Presidency Project [online]. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California (hosted), Gerhard Peters (database).
7. ^ "Fred Malek" (http://www.afocr.org/bio-malek.html) . http://www.afocr.org/bio-malek.html. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
8. ^ http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresearchers/find/textual/central/smof/malek.php
9. ^ New York Times, November 15, 1972.
10. ^ RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, p. 624, Richard Nixon, 1990.
11. ^ nid=1356&dat=19750930&id=ByATAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lAUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2758,5691792
(http://news.google.com/newspapers) , Jack Anderson, "Success Story of Interior Nominee," Ocala Star-Banner,
September 30, 1975.
12. ^ [2] (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19740906&id=GRssAAAAIBAJ&
sjid=I8kEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1464,1330619) Ray Cromley, Times Daily, September 6, 1972.
13. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=x7nMs-JwAikC&pg=PA382&lpg=PA382&
dq=%22responsiveness+program%22&source=bl&ots=-lkHCcaR-H&sig=IbkYbKlH-QWVjoKqK8JNlJ01wHM&
hl=en&ei=LSsBTKSDMMKBlAfWt5jFCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&
ved=0CC8Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22responsiveness%20program%22&f=false
14. ^ The Senate Watergate Report, Chapter III, 1974, citing Malek memo to Haldeman.
15. ^ The Senate Watergate Report, 1974, Chapter III, citing December 23, 1971 memo from Malek to Haldeman.
16. ^ a b "Nixon's Jew count: The whole story!" (http://www.slate.com/id/2174788) , Timothy Noah, Slate, Sept. 26,
2007.
17. ^ "Adviser Makes Peace With Jewish Groups; In Line for New Bush Job" Christopher Connell, AP, September 11,
1989.
18. ^ "New Job for Aide Who Quit Bush Campaign", Bernard Weinraub, Sept. 10, 1989.
19. ^ a b Noah, Timothy (May 21, 2010). "What's the Matter With Virginia? Part 2: Fred Malek's anti-Semitic past
makes him unfit to chair a state government panel" (http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=read&id=2254653) .
Slate Magazine. http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=read&id=2254653. Retrieved 2010-06-10.
20. ^ "Memorandum from Malek to Haldeman" (http://nixon.archives.gov/virtuallibrary/documents/jan10/077.pdf) .
Nixon Library. February 11, 1971. http://nixon.archives.gov/virtuallibrary/documents/jan10/077.pdf. Retrieved
2010-06-10.
21. ^ Connell, AP, 1989.
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22. ^ Anita Kumar (10 May 2010). "Democrats attack McDonnell's selection of Malek as government reform
chairman" (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/05/post_679.html) . Washington Post.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/05/post_679.html.
23. ^ "New Job for Aide Who Quit Bush Campaign", Bernard Weinraub, New York Times, September 10, 1989.
24. ^ "Bush picks commerce secretary; GOP fundraiser to be nominated", Bill Mintz, Houston Chronicle, December
27, 1991.
25. ^ a b "McDonnell announces members of government reform commission" (http://www.virginiabusiness.com
/index.php/news/article/mcdonnell-announces-members-of-government-reform-commission/204307/) . May 7, 2010.
http://www.virginiabusiness.com/index.php/news/article/mcdonnell-announces-members-of-government-reform-
commission/204307/. Retrieved 2010-05-26.
26. ^ "John McCain Bundlers" (http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/bundlers.php?id=N00006424) .
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/bundlers.php?id=N00006424. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
27. ^ http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02
/american_action_network_who_is_putting_up_the_mone.php
28. ^ http://americanactionnetwork.org/content/about
29. ^ http://www.fredmalekblog.com/
30. ^ "Frederic Malek, Former Nixon Aide, Elected Vice President of Marriott", Washington Post, Chapin Wright,
March 13, 1978.
31. ^ a b "Malek Brings Cargo of Controversy to NWA", Minneapolis-St. Paul CityBusiness, Beth Ewen, October 9,
1989
32. ^ "Checchi's backers will get about 20% of Northwest", Denise Gellene, Los Angeles Times, June 24, 1989.
33. ^ "Labor Upbeat About Change in Management at Northwest", AP, Sept. 29, 1989 .
34. ^ "Marriott will sell catering unit to one of NWA's buyers", Gellene, Los Angeles Times, July 12, 1989.
35. ^ "Fred Malek: Chairman, Thayer Hidden Creek" (http://web.archive.org/web/20080309200032/http:
//www.thayercapital.com/professionals/malek.html) . Archived from the original (http://www.thayercapital.com
/professionals/malek.html) on 2008-03-09. http://web.archive.org/web/20080309200032/http:
//www.thayercapital.com/professionals/malek.html. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
36. ^ Fannie Mae News Release, November 10, 2005, "Frederic Malek to Retire From Board"
(http://www.fanniemae.com/newsreleases/2005/3641.jhtml?p=Media&s=News+Releases)
37. ^ a b SEC v. William A. DiBella and North Cove Ventures, LLC, Civil Action No. 304CV1342 (WWE) (District of
Connecticut) (http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr18829.htm)
38. ^ a b Colbert I. King, "Fred Malek, a Dog and the SEC (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article
/2006/03/10/AR2006031001843.html) " Washington Post March 11, 2006
39. ^ a b Helderman, Rosalind (May 26, 2010). "McDonnell Says he didn't know of Malek disputes: Made List of Jews
for Nixon". Washington Post: p. B1.
40. ^ SEC v. William A. DiBella, et al., Civil Action No. 3:04 CV 1342 (EBB) (District of Connecticut)
(http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2008/lr20498.htm)
41. ^ "McDonnell unaware of reform chairman's past" (http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1965663) . WTOP. May 25,
2010. http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1965663. Retrieved 2010-05-26.
42. ^ "Va. delegate says commission chair anti-Semitic" (http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1954037) . WTOP. May
10, 2010. http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1954037. Retrieved 201-05-26.
43. ^ Rutenberg, Jim (6 December 2008). "On His Way Out, Bush Leads Others In" (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12
/07/washington/07memo.html?_r=1) . New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/washington
/07memo.html?_r=1. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
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States Military Academy at West Point. http://www.usma.edu/bov.asp. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
45. ^ "Governor, University Laud Maleks' Philanthropic Efforts in Health-Care Arena" (http://www.sungazette.net
/arlington/people/governor-university-laud-maleks-philanthropic-efforts-in-health-care-arena/article_8ab16800-
ad84-11e1-b976-001a4bcf887a.html) . Arlington Sun Gazette. 4 June 2012. http://www.sungazette.net/arlington
/people/governor-university-laud-maleks-philanthropic-efforts-in-health-care-arena/article_8ab16800-ad84-11e1-
b976-001a4bcf887a.html. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
46. ^ Fred Malek is McCain's new moneyman (http://www.fredmalekblog.com/2008/02/13/mccain-momentum-sweeps-
virginia/) , Washington Examiner, Jeff Dufour, February 12, 2008.
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Brokering Power in Business and Politics (Washington Post, April 21, 2008)
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