I’m confused. Daily Mail Online says the papers will be released.
The Daily Mail is correct. The judge refused to lift the gag order, so Allred’s client doesn’t get to speak, but the judge did grant the Boston Globe request to unseal the trial transcript. Now the Globe will comb through it and print whatever they can find that puts Romney in a bad light. Most likely, he low-balled the possible value of Staples, which had not then gone public, arguably depriving the wife of a “fair share” in what later became riches. The problem is that the wife was given hundreds of thousands of shares, which she sold for peanuts before the IPO. That was her (and her financial advisors’ call). If she set too much weight on Romney’s opinion as stated in court, that’s too bad, but it shouldn’t be Romney’s problem. Most start-ups do not pan out, and Romney may have been just speaking the truth as he saw it at the time.
Romney is playing Brer Rabbit here. What a fantastic opportunity. The Sullivan woman comes out looking like a gold digging malcontent, Allred looks like a chump, Mitt gets a few days to talk about the Staples success story, and the Obama campaign sinks deeper in desperation.