Pete Buttigieg Releases List of McKinsey Clients

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Pete Buttigieg Releases List of McKinsey ClientsThe list is the latest in a series of disclosures his campaign has made after it was criticized for lacking transparency.WASHINGTON - Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday released the names of nine clients for whom he worked while employed as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, a period of his life that has come under increasing scrutiny in recent weeks.Mr. Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., put out the client list one day after the firm announced it would release him from a nondisclosure agreement he signed while working at McKinsey during his first three years after finishing his education.The client list includes:Blue Cross Blue Shield of MichiganBest Buythe Natural Resources Defense Councilthe Environmental Protection Agencythe U.S. Department of Energythe United States Postal Servicethe U.S. Department of Defensethe Energy FoundationLoblaws, a Canadian supermarket chain"Voters can see for themselves that my work amounted to mostly research and analysis," Mr. Buttigieg said in a statement released by his campaign Tuesday. "They can also see that I value both transparency and keeping my word."The list shows Mr. Buttigieg worked on projects in the health care and retail industries, along with federal government projects relating to the environment and the economies in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as nonprofit environmental groups.While Mr. Buttigieg has for years spoken about his efforts, while working at McKinsey, to create an entrepreneurial environment in Iraq and Afghanistan, and wrote in his memoir this year about a project on Canadian cereal prices, the most politically troubling element of his client list might be his tenure working for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan a health care firm that at the tim

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