TPG Sues Ex-White House Aide Who Allegedly Threatened to ‘Take Down’ Firm
The White House in Washington.
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TPG Global LLC sued the former White House press aide it hired as a spokesman, alleging he threatened to “take down” the company after learning he wouldn’t be promoted and stole confidential documents that he doctored and sent to The New York Times.
Adam Levine, a deputy press secretary for President George W. Bush who joined the buyout company in 2008, called himself a “weapon of mass destruction” who could inflict harm by disclosing sensitive information and planting damaging stories about TPG, the company said in a revised complaint filed Wednesday in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas.