Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Romney pescato a mentire

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2012/07/11/government-documents-indicate-mitt-romney-continued-bain-after-date-when-says-left/IpfKYWjnrsel4pvCFbsUTI/story.html
 
 
Government documents filed by Mitt Romney and Bain Capital say Romney 
remained chief executive and chairman of the firm three years beyond the 
date he said he ceded control, even creating five new investment 
partnerships during that time.
 
Romney has said he left Bain in 1999 to lead the winter Olympics in Salt 
Lake City, ending his role in the company. But public Securities and 
Exchange Commission documents filed later by Bain Capital state he 
remained the firm’s “sole stockholder, chairman of the board, chief 
executive officer, and president.”
 
Also, a Massachusetts financial disclosure form Romney filed in 2003 
states that he still owned 100 percent of Bain Capital in 2002. And 
Romney’s state financial disclosure forms indicate he earned at least 
$100,000 as a Bain “executive” in 2001 and 2002, separate from 
investment earnings.
 
The timing of Romney’s departure from Bain is a key point of contention 
because he has said his resignation in February 1999 meant he was not 
responsible for Bain Capital companies that went bankrupt or laid off 
workers after that date.
 
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Contradictions concerning the length of Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital 
add to the uncertainty and questions about his finances. Bain is the 
primary source of Romney’s wealth, which is estimated to be more than 
$25o million. But how his wealth has been invested, especially in a 
variety of Bain partnerships and other investment vehicles, remains 
difficult to decipher because of a lack of transparency.
 
The Obama campaign and other Democrats have raised questions about his 
unwillingness to release tax returns filed before 2010; his offshore 
assets, which include investment entities based in Bermuda and the 
Cayman Islands and a recently closed bank account in Switzerland; and a 
set of “blind trusts” that meet the Massachusetts standards for public 
officials but not the more rigorous bar set by the federal government.
 
Romney did not finalize a severance agreement with Bain until 2002, a 
10-year deal with undisclosed terms that was retroactive to 1999. It 
expired in 2009.
 
Bain Capital and the campaign for the presumptive GOP nominee have 
suggested the SEC filings that show Romney as the man in charge during 
those additional three years have little meaning, and are the result of 
legal technicalities. The campaign declined to comment on the record. It 
pointed to a footnote in Romney’s most recent financial disclosure form, 
filed June 1 as a presidential candidate.
 
“Since February 11, 1999, Mr. Romney has not had any active role with 
any Bain Capital entity and has not been involved in the operations of 
any Bain Capital entity in any way,’’ according to the footnote. Romney 
made the same assertion on a financial disclosure form in 2007, during 
his first run for president.
 
 
RICHARD CARSON/REUTERS
Romney spoke at the NAACP convention in Houston Wednesday.
 
According to a statement issued by Bain Wednesday, “Mitt Romney retired 
from Bain Capital in February 1999. He has had no involvement in the 
management or investment activities of Bain Capital, or with any of its 
portfolio companies, since that time.”
 
A former SEC commissioner told the Globe that the SEC documents listing 
Romney as Bain’s chief executive between 1999 and 2002 cannot be 
dismissed so easily.
 
“You can’t say statements filed with the SEC are meaningless. This is a 
fact in an SEC filing,” said Roberta S. Karmel, now a professor at 
Brooklyn Law School.
 
“It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to say he was technically in 
charge on paper but he had nothing to do with Bain’s operations,” Karmel 
continued. “Was he getting paid? He’s the sole stockholder. Are you 
telling me he owned the company but had no say in its investments?”
 
The Globe found nine SEC filings submitted by four different business 
entities after February 1999 that describe Romney as Bain Capital’s 
boss; some show him with managerial control over five Bain Capital 
entities that were formed in January 2002, according to records in 
Delaware, where they were incorporated.
 
A Romney campaign official, who requested anonymity to discuss the SEC 
filings, acknowledged that they “do not square with common sense.” But 
SEC regulations are complicated and quirky, the official argued, and 
Romney’s signature on some documents after his exit does not indicate 
active involvement in the firm.
 
A spokesman for the SEC said the commission could not comment on 
individual company filings or address the meaning of Romney’s name and 
title on the documents.
 
Karmel, the former SEC commissioner, said the contradictory statements 
could have legal implications in some instances.
 
“If someone invested with Bain Capital because they believed Mitt Romney 
was a great fund manager, and it turns out he wasn’t really doing 
anything, that could be considered a misrepresentation to the 
investor,’’ she said. “It’s a theory that could be used in a lawsuit 
against him.”
 
Romney first deployed the defense that he left the firm in February 1999 
as a candidate for governor in 2002, when Democrat Shannon O’Brien 
featured a laid-off worker from a Kansas City steel mill that went 
bankrupt in 2001, after Bain Capital had reaped a handsome profit from 
its investment in the company. “Romney has taken responsibility for 
making the initial investment but has said he could not be blamed for 
management decisions at the company,” the Globe reported at the time.
 
Romney’s exit from Bain Capital also served as a ready-made rebuttal 
when in May President Obama’s reelection campaign began its public 
scrutiny of Romney’s business record with an ad focusing on former 
laborers at the same mill, GST Steel. But the SEC filings examined by 
the Globe indicate Romney remained at the helm of Bain Capital when the 
steel mill declared bankruptcy, in February 2001.
 
And financial disclosure documents Romney filed in Massachusetts show 
that he was paid as a Bain Capital executive while he directed the Olympics.
 
When he was named chief executive of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee 
on Feb. 11, 1999, Romney declared that he would not accept the job’s 
$285,000 annual salary until the Games were over and he had proven his 
turnaround worth.
 
Romney continued to draw a six-figure salary from Bain Capital, 
according to State Ethics Commission forms.
 
In Romney’s 2002 race for governor, he testified before the state Ballot 
Law Commission that his separation from Bain in 1999 had been a “leave 
of absence” and not a final departure.
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Namib
 
Chacun appelle "idées claires" celles qui sont au même degré de 
confusion que les siennes propres (M. Proust)
 

 
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omg, i politici mentono! Non ero così scioccato da quando mi hanno
detto che Babbo Natale era morto nel '53 :D

 omg, i politici mentono!
 
Agli yankee secca, però.
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 Agli yankee secca
 
gli yankee sono impegnati di ipocrisia puritana (a prescindere che
millantino di essere battisti, o pastafariani o raeliani...), agli
yankee seccano le balle sulle scemenze, sulle cose serie LE
PRETENDONO. Per esempio, se Romney dicesse "votatemi pure e continuerò
a togliere le tasse ai ricchi e i servizi ai poveri". Sarebbe onesto,
dici che lo apprezzerebbero?


 
Bene, e' in buona compagnia, puo' fare il presidente USA.
 
 

 gli yankee sono impegnati di ipocrisia puritana
 
Mi presti il tuo mandolino? Il mio l'ho sfasciato sulla zucca di un 
ripetitore di stereotipi culturali.
 
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Namib
 
Necessaria sunt immutabilia (A. G. Baumgarten)
 
 

 Bene, e' in buona compagnia, puo' fare il presidente USA.
 
si vuol prendere la Rice come vice, così ognuno ha il suo bel
maggiordomo nero....

 ha scritto nel messaggio 
news:56610df2-5990-48bb...@s1g2000vbj.googlegroups.com...
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    si vuol prendere la Rice come vice, cos� ognuno ha il suo bel
    maggiordomo nero....
 
Il nero va di moda, in politica poi ............