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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVanity Fair: Where the Money Lives
A person who worked for Mitt Romney at the consulting firm Bain and Co. in 1977 remembers him with mixed feelings. Mitt was
a really wonderful boss, the former employee says. He was nice, he was fair, he was logical, he said what he wanted
he was really encouraging. But Bain and Co., the person recalls, pushed employees to find out secret revenue and sales data on its clients competitors. Romney, the person says, suggested falsifying who they were to get such information, by pretending to be a graduate student working on a project at Harvard. (The person, in fact, was a Harvard student, at Bain for the summer, but not working on any such projects.) Mitt said to me something like We wont ask you to lie. I am not going to tell you to do this, but [it is] a really good way to get the information.
I would not have had anything in my analysis if I had not pretended.
It was a strange atmosphere. It did leave a bad taste in your mouth, the former employee recalls.
This unsettling account suggests the young Romneyat that point only two years out of Harvard Business Schoolwas willing to push into gray areas when it came to business. More than three decades later, as he tried to nail down the Republican nomination for president of the United States, Romneys gray areas were again an issue when he repeatedly resisted calls to release more details of his net worth, his tax returns, and the large investments and assets held by him and his wife, Ann. Finally the other Republican candidates forced him to do so, but only highly selective disclosures were forthcoming.
Even so, these provided a lavish smorgasbord for Romneys critics. Particularly jarring were the Romneys many offshore accounts. As Newt Gingrich put it during the primary season, I dont know of any American president who has had a Swiss bank account. But Romney has, as well as other interests in such tax havens as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.
More: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/08/investigating-mitt-romney-offshore-accounts
It was a strange atmosphere. It did leave a bad taste in your mouth, the former employee recalls.
This unsettling account suggests the young Romneyat that point only two years out of Harvard Business Schoolwas willing to push into gray areas when it came to business. More than three decades later, as he tried to nail down the Republican nomination for president of the United States, Romneys gray areas were again an issue when he repeatedly resisted calls to release more details of his net worth, his tax returns, and the large investments and assets held by him and his wife, Ann. Finally the other Republican candidates forced him to do so, but only highly selective disclosures were forthcoming.
Even so, these provided a lavish smorgasbord for Romneys critics. Particularly jarring were the Romneys many offshore accounts. As Newt Gingrich put it during the primary season, I dont know of any American president who has had a Swiss bank account. But Romney has, as well as other interests in such tax havens as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.
More: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/08/investigating-mitt-romney-offshore-accounts
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Vanity Fair: Where the Money Lives (Original Post)
BumRushDaShow
Jul 2012
OP
malaise
(269,067 posts)1. You need way more popcorn than that!
Butter?
BumRushDaShow
(129,150 posts)3. !!!!
*cough* *cough* *choke*
ProSense
(116,464 posts)2. What is
...Even after examining that return, we have no idea what is in this company, but it could be valuable, meaning that it is possible Romneys wealth is even greater than previous estimates.
...Mitt hiding?
ProgressiveEconomist
(5,818 posts)4. Sounds just like Gordon Gekko mentoring Bud Fox in Oliver
Stone's "Wall Street" (1987):
"I taught you the value of information--and how to get it."
I hope Oliver Stone gives the Obama campaign copyright waivers for free use of footage from "Wall Street" in ads.
BumRushDaShow
(129,150 posts)5. I believe this Obama ad references this article