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Q: AT&T Inc. boss Randall Stephenson told employees Friday it was a mistake to hire Trump attorney Michael Cohen and ousted the telecom’s giant’s top Washington executive after his office paid Mr. Cohen $600,000 last year. 
  
 “Our reputation has been damaged,” Mr. Stephenson wrote in a memo to staff. “There is no other way to say it—AT&T hiring Michael Cohen as a political consultant was a big mistake.” 
  
 Mr.... ||||| AT&T has decided to join the growing coalition of people who regret paying President Trump’s lawyer. In a message to AT&T employees today, first obtained by CNN, AT&T President Randall Stephenson said “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.” Regardless, Stephenson insists that “everything we did was done according to the law and entirely legitimate.” 
  
 But while Stephenson says he takes “full responsibility” for the mistake, it actually seems like AT&T’s top lobbyist Bob Quinn is taking the hit. Stephenson also announced in his message that Quinn “will be retiring,” and that the company’s lobbying shop will now be reporting to AT&T General Counsel David McAtee. 
  
 If you’ve been following any of the net neutrality saga in recent years, you’ve probably seen Quinn’s name once or twice. As one of the telecommunications industry’s most vocal and aggressive lobbyists, he’s spent a lot of time railing against things like net neutrality and internet privacy rules. (Quinn has been defending dubious ISP bullshit since the days of AT&T blocking FaceTime over mobile internet, one of the company’s most egregious abuses.) While his title was technically “Senior Executive Vice President of External & Legislative Affairs,” he often acted as AT&T’s chief blogger, posting lengthy screeds about why internet advocates were hyperventilating and distorting the facts. 
  
 AT&T isn’t going to change its tune on sensible internet regulation just because Quinn’s gone, but we’ll probably see fewer spicy blog posts before his position is filled. 
  
 Here’s the text of Stephenson’s memo to AT&T staff: 
  
 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 [linked] 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. 
  
 And here’s the “more information” that Stephenson references: |||||
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AT&T is one of the companies that paid big money to Michael Cohen after President Trump's election to take advantage of his close ties to the president. "Big mistake," chief executive Randall Stephenson writes in a company email now in wide circulation in the media. What's more, the AT&T executive who authorized the payment of $600,000 is now out of a job, reports the Washington Post. The official word is that Bob Quinn, who was the company exec in charge of lobbying, is retiring, but the Wall Street Journal reports that he was forced out. Quinn paid Cohen's firm, Essential Consultants, the big fee in order to receive guidance in dealing with the FCC and the Justice Department, particularly in regard to the company's possible merger with Time Warner. “There is no other way to say it—AT&T hiring Michael Cohen as a political consultant was a big mistake,” writes Stephenson in the email. He said that while AT&T did nothing illegal, the hiring of Cohen was a "serious misjudgment" that has hurt the company's reputation. As the Post notes, it's not clear what guidance Cohen might have offered the company on complicated telecom matters. "(Our) team's vetting process clearly failed, and I take responsibility for that," writes Stephenson. The Verge finds Quinn's departure interesting for another reason: Quinn, writes TC Sottek, had been one of the telecom industry's most vocal opponents of net neutrality.