‘Bullshit’: Pete Buttigieg confronts McKinsey criticism

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Pete Buttigieg pushed back on suggestions that his work at consulting firm McKinsey & Company was related to illegal schemes and mass layoffs.

“The proposition that I’ve been on front lines of corporate price fixing is bullshit,” Buttigieg, 37, said in an interview published Thursday. “I worked for a consulting company that had a client that may have been involved in fixing or was apparently in a scandal. I was not aware of the Canadian bread pricing scandal until last night.”

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