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Scott Brown's Beef

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By PETER KADZIS  |  October 9, 2012

Incumbent Republican Senator Scott Brown is hell-bent on branding his Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard professor of bankruptcy law, with a scarlet letter: H — for hypocrisy.

Brown's beef? Appeal-court work Warren performed for two corporations: LTV Steel, a conglomerate with coal interests, and Travelers, an insurance giant with a sprawling portfolio that includes asbestos settlements.

Brown charges that Warren abandoned her flock of little people for billable hours: $212,000 for her Travelers' work alone. He caresses this number as if it's a magic amulet, a talisman that will conjure Warren's defeat. "Nearly a quarter of a million dollars," Brown says, breathless at the prospect.

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