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pnwmom

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7. She didn't blast all 1,000 partners -- only the ones who are working in the DT administration.
Tue Jul 16, 2019, 02:41 AM
Jul 2019

From the article in the OP:

In the wake of those new charges, Harris called on senior Justice Department officials who previously worked for Kirkland & Ellis to recuse themselves from any matter related to Epstein’s case, saying that the law firm’s work representing the financier “calls into question the integrity of our legal system.”

Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen are alumni of Kirkland & Ellis.

But according to the AP, six partners from the Chicago-based firm held a fundraiser benefiting Harris the same day she made those remarks. Ian Sams, a spokesman for Harris’s campaign, dismissed concerns about the fundraiser on Monday, noting in a tweet that Kirkland & Ellis employs more than 2,500 attorneys and has more than 1,000 partners.


In a statement to the AP, Sams also noted that those involved in Epstein’s case in Florida years ago had not supported Harris’s presidential bid.

“The people involved in that case have not supported her campaign, and she wouldn’t want that support anyway,” he said.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden

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