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Internship Timeline, 2015

April 13: Board chairman Robert Cavanaugh asks Eric Henry, the chief executive in the Hershey Trust Co., the bank that manages the charity's assets, about looking for a finance-industry summer internship for his son. Henry emails Legato Capital Management L.L.C. in San Francisco, which manages $25 million in Hershey assets.

April 13: Board chairman Robert Cavanaugh asks Eric Henry, the chief executive in the Hershey Trust Co., the bank that manages the charity's assets, about looking for a finance-industry summer internship for his son. Henry emails Legato Capital Management L.L.C. in San Francisco, which manages $25 million in Hershey assets.

April 15: A Legato top executive asks for the resumé of Cavanaugh's son.

April 16: Henry emails the resumé to Legatos. He also emails the resumé to John K. Milne, chief executive of JKMilne Asset Management. The Milne firm manages $584 million in Hershey charitable assets. Milne sends Cavanaugh's son an email saying he has his resumé.

April 21 or 22: Milne interviews Cavanaugh's son.

April 23: Milne offers an internship.

April 29: Legato makes a competing offer.

May 5: Cavanaugh's son accepts Milne's offer for a summer internship, which pays $26.44 an hour.

May 26: Cavanaugh's son begins the internship.

June 7: Cavanaugh informs a Hershey Trust vice chairman, retired Lt. Gen. Richard Zilmer, of the internship.

July 1: Weil, Gotshal & Manges is hired by the Hershey Trust board to investigate the internship.

Aug. 7: Cavanaugh's son finishes the internship. Total pay for the summer internship is about $13,000.

Aug. 27: Weil Gotshal releases a memo on the investigation, absolving anyone of a conflict. The cost of the investigation was $650,000.

SOURCE: Weil, Gotshal & Manges

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