McKinsey and Company have given the all-clear to former employee Pete Buttigieg to provide more details regarding some of his old clients at the management consultant firm.
“After receiving permission from the relevant clients, we have informed Mayor Buttigieg that he may disclose the identity of the clients he served while at McKinsey from 2007 to 2010,” a McKinsey representative said in a statement on Monday afternoon about the South Bend, Indiana mayor, and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.
But the representative added that any information the Buttigieg, 37, makes public “still must not disclose confidential, proprietary, or classified information obtained during the course of that work, or violate any security clearance.”
Buttigieg and fellow White House hopeful Elizabeth Warren, 70, have clashed over their respective ties to McKinsey, each calling for greater transparency from the other.
“There are some candidates who want to distract from the fact that they have not released the names of their clients and have not released the names of their bundlers,” Warren, a Massachusetts senator, said last month.
Earlier Monday, Buttigieg’s campaign manager Mike Schmuhl announced the candidate, starting on Tuesday, “will open fundraisers to reporters, and will release the names of people raising money.”
“No other candidate for president has released the entirety of their tax returns since their education concluded. No other current candidate for president has released the names of people raising money for their campaign. There are important differences in this race among Democratic candidates, from creating a choice of affordable health care choices for all to removing cost as a barrier to college for those who need it, but transparency shouldn’t be one of them,” Schmuhl said.
Last week, Buttigieg disseminated a summary of his work during his three years at McKinsey, a firm he joined after he graduated from Harvard College and finished his Rhodes scholarship at Oxford University.
Over the weekend, Warren revealed she has raked in $1.9 million from corporate legal clients since 1986 under pressure from Buttigieg to publish her tax filings from before 2008 to show her private earnings as an attorney. She declined to do so via releasing her tax returns.
