Pete Buttigieg released names of clients while he worked at McKinsey

WASHINGTON – South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg released his list of McKinsey and Company clients on Tuesday after facing mounting scrutiny regarding his lack of transparency about his employment with the management consulting firm, including from fellow Democratic candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

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The list of clients included Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Loblaws, Best Buy, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, the Energy Foundation, an environmental nonprofit, the U.S. Postal Service, and the U.S. Department of Defense.

It was announced on Monday that Buttegieg would be released from a nondisclosure agreement with the company that prevented him from detailing his past work.

Buttigieg first asked McKinsey in June to release him from the NDA he signed after working there for three years after graduating from Harvard and Oxford.

“Now, voters can see for themselves that my work amounted to mostly research and analysis. They can also see that I value both transparency and keeping my word,” Buttigieg, who is running for the 2020 Democratic nomiation, said in a statement. “Neither of these qualities are something we see coming out of Washington, especially from this White House. It’s time for that to change."

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In an interview with The Atlantic, Buttigieg sought to defend himself from working at McKinsey, calling it "a place that is as amoral as the American business community in general, or at least the corporate community, can be" and distanced himself from some of the more controversial work that the consultancy has done, claiming he "never worked or was asked to work on things that I had a problem with, but it’s a place that I think, like any other law firm or firms that deal with companies, just thinks about client work and doesn’t always think about the bigger implications.”

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