The daughter of a "very good friend" of Bill Clinton who grew up near the Clintons' Chappaqua, New York, home is covering the presidential campaign for Bloomberg News, according to the New York Post.
Madeline McMahon is the daughter of Julie Tauber McMahon, who is widely believed to be the "Energizer" woman referenced in Ronald Kessler's book The First Family Detail. The "Energizer" was said to be so close to Clinton that the Secret Service was ordered to follow a special protocol for her visits to the Clinton's Chappaqua home, allowing her to enter and exit without being bothered for security checks.
The younger McMahon writes "Campaign Wrap" posts for Bloomberg Politics, often focusing on the Clinton campaign.
She is a 2014 graduate from Yale University where she worked for the Yale Daily News, according to the Post. She also spent a summer working as an intern for Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.).
The McMahon family's ties to the Clintons came back into the spotlight last month following a Wall Street Journal report that the Clinton Global Initiative steered $2 million to an energy company owned by Julie Tauber McMahon.
The CGI commitment raised eyebrows due to the close relationship between Clinton and McMahon. Chappaqua locals say that "wherever he went, she went," according to the New York Post.
Bill Clinton and Julie became neighbors a year after they first met. The former first family moved into a $1.7 million Chappaqua mansion less than three miles from Julie’s Colonial Georgian.
Eyebrows soon started rising in the neighborhood.
"Wherever he went, she went. If he went to the Palm, she went to the Palm. If he went out to the Hamptons, she went to the Hamptons," a neighbor says.
"I think [their relationship] was an open secret. [People] try to kiss her ass because of her connection to [Clinton]."
"The Energizer" was also recently brought into the fold by Republican Donald Trump, who wondered out-loud last month whether Bill Clinton would bring her with him to the White House.
The $2 million given to McMahon's company was brushed off by her neighbor Joanna Fischer, who said that McMahon is too wealthy to care about such a small sum of cash.
"The funniest part of it is, she doesn’t need his $2 million," said Fischer. "She’s from an extremely wealthy family. We spend that on clothes."
McMahon is the daughter of Joel Tauber, a longtime Democratic fundraiser. She first met Clinton during a 1998 retreat he attended at her father's home in Aspen, Colorado.
She filed for divorce with her former husband, a Goldman Sachs executive, in 1998. The divorce was finalized in 2001 after he netted around $30 million when the financial giant went public, according to the Post report.
Madeline McMahon also spent a summer working as an intern for Goldman Sachs.