Citing fees earned by White & Case for its work on behalf of former Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, the Democratic candidate seeking Indiana’s open U.S. Senate seat claims his Republican foe, current state treasurer Richard Mourdock, overpaid the firm for its representation of several public pension funds in their unsuccessful effort to scuttle Chrysler’s bankruptcy sale.

Democrat Joe Donnelly, a U.S. congressman who is battling Mourdock to fill the seat being vacated by longtime U.S. Senator Richard Lugar, is challenging Mourdock’s decision to spend state money on outside counsel hired three years ago to fight Chrysler’s bankruptcy sale to Italian automaker Fiat. (Mourdock—widely viewed as getting a lift from his Tea Party ties—earned his spot on the general election ballot by dealing Lugar an unexpected loss in last month’s GOP primary.) 

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