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Warren Defends Corporate Interests Against Victims Of Pollution In Unearthed Memo

Emily Zanotti
Warren Defends Corporate Interests Against Victims Of Pollution In Unearthed Memo
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released a list of cases Sunday, giving reporters and voters the first peek they’ve ever had into her career consulting with mass torts and class action litigants in the years during and following her tenure at Harvard Law — and at least one case is raising eyebrows among those who value Warren’s anti-corporate stance.

SFGate has unearthed a memo from Warren, written on Harvard Law School letterhead and compiled sometime in the late 1990s, gives a glimpse into the world Warren operated in before becoming an anti-corporate and anti-Wall Street crusader. In it, Warren defends the interests of corporate America against some of the very people she now claims to represent: a host of people affected by corporate unwillingness to abide by basic environmental regulations.

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