Democratic candidate Warren reveals details of past legal work, showing
$2 million in compensation since 1980s
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[December 09, 2019]
By Humeyra Pamuk and Amanda Becker
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic
presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren released information on Sunday
about her past legal work, showing nearly $2 million in compensation
from dozens of clients over the decades, as a dispute intensified with
her rival Pete Buttigieg over transparency.
Warren, a leading candidate among the 15 Democrats vying for the party’s
nomination to take on President Donald Trump in the November 2020
election, had already put out 11 years of tax returns in April and
called on other candidates to follow suit.
Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has said in recent days
that Warren, a U.S. senator from Massachusetts, should release older tax
documents detailing her corporate legal work.
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In return, Warren has called on Buttigieg to allow media coverage of his
private donor events and to disclose information about his past work at
the consultancy company McKinsey. Warren does not hold big-ticket
fundraisers and has focused her campaign on combating Washington
corruption and corporate greed.
Buttigieg's campaign said on Saturday it was working on making the
details of his employment at McKinsey "fully transparent" and called on
Warren to match that by releasing her tax returns covering her corporate
legal work.
On Sunday, in a 15-page document, Warren's campaign provided examples of
her legal work, some of which dated back to 1985, in capacities
including as a counsel, consultant and expert witness, giving
information about the cases and how much she was compensated.
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The document included dozens of cases, some of which Warren took on
a pro-bono basis and was not compensated for. In some cases, she
worked with a group of consultants. The document showed a total of
nearly $2 million in compensation.
A Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll on Thursday showed that support for
Warren dropped nationally to its lowest level in four months, as she
came under attack over her proposal to extend government-paid
healthcare to all Americans, deemed too costly by her rivals for the
nomination.
Warren, 70, is still among the leaders in opinion polls in Iowa,
which kicks off the Democratic nominating contests on Feb. 3, and in
other early voting states. Buttigieg, 37, who had campaign stops
this weekend in Iowa, has surged into the lead in recent opinion
polls there.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll, conducted on Wednesday and Thursday, found
the level of indecision had jumped among Democrats and
Democratic-leaning independents after an already wide slate of
candidates experienced considerable recent turnover ahead of next
year's election.
(Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk and Amanda Becker; Editing by Peter
Cooney)
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