Forbes and Newsmax are using "the tactics of the left."!!!!! /s
Surely no one is buying these straw man tactics from Romney.
What say you?
Just more blatant lies from Romney.
Seems he can’t help himself.
Better for a Republican to use the so called “Obama playbook” in the republican primary before it’s too late and Obama gets to use it instead.
Newt will take this information and beat it like a tin drum.
Florida, this juice is for you.
Romney truth file BTTT.
Have you not learned yet to ask Mitt anything about how he made money is unacceptable? IT does NOT matter how much tax payers got shafted because nobody can do it better than Romney. s/
Which political candidate did Wall Street overwhelmingly fund in the last presidential election? WHO got ‘bailed out’, and yet we continue to have the mass confusion of the ‘Wall Street’ crowd cheering on the performance art called ‘occupy wall street’.... Deception is well pass the point of return.
Check out video linking Willard with the the Damon Corporation, who pled guilty to Federal conspiracy charges as a result of tens of millions of dollars in systemic Medicare fraud committed under Romney’s and Bain’s control.
http://www.mittsbloodmoney.com/
This stuff will sink Romney, if he gets the nomination, like the Titanic.
Dirty, filthy Romney!
WISE UP, VOTERS!
I know you dealt with this yesterday, and picked out some things you found questionable. This information evidently originated from Forbes, who gave it to Perry, and now to Gingrich. Forbes, I suspect, doesn’t like Romney much.
If Romney was a mortician stealing gold teeth the nomenklatura would defend him as a ‘successful mineral reclamation investor’.
Like sockpuppet Obama, sockpuppet Romney can do no wrong for those who find amoral empty suits useful.
Mitt managed via a “blind trust” ???
By the end of the general election campaign (if Mitt wins - and I’m not so sure he will), we will know everything we need to know about Mormonism. Obama will make sure of that.
Ugly. It’s going to get real ugly.
http://www.baincapitalprivateequity.com/Investments/432/HCA
Bill Frist, medical doctor and former Republican Senate Majority Leader (2003 - 2007), said Tuesday that he’s for fixing not nixing ObamaCare.
Frist’s father and brother founded Hospital Corporation of America, the “largest private operator of health care facilities in the world.” His brother, nephews and other members of his extended family own significant stakes in the company, which is eyeing a public stock offering to resolve looming debt issues. With ObamaCare, hospitals forecast less uncompensated care (bad debt) and their stock prices have been rising accordingly. The “improved prospects for publicly traded hospitals appear to have inspired the owners of HCA to take the company public” again.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/01/frist_obamacare_beautiful_on_p.html
The RinoCrat Oligarchy have themselves invested in Bain...and their personal financial security is probably dependent on its success...which is in turn dependent upon a Romney Candidacy.
Think Madoff...but with legislative leverage to meet the calls....
http://www.deseretnews.com/m/article/680195957
Perhaps the most legally thorny was Bain Capital’s 1989 purchase of Damon Corp., a Needham medical testing firm that later pleaded guilty to defrauding the federal government of $25 million and paid a record $119 million fine.
Romney sat on Damon’s board. During Romney’s tenure, Damon executives submitted bills to the government for millions of unnecessary blood tests. Romney and other board members were never implicated.
More than a decade later, when Romney was in pursuit of the Massachusetts governorship, his Democratic opponent Shannon O’Brien accused him of lax oversight at Damon and failing to report the fraud.
Romney replied that he had helped uncover the illegal activity at Damon, asking the board’s lawyers to investigate. As a result, he said, the board took “corrective action” before selling the company in 1993 to Corning Inc.
But court records suggest that the Damon executives’ scheme continued throughout Bain’s ownership, and prosecutors credited Corning, not Romney, with cleaning up the situation. Bain, meanwhile, tripled its investment.
Romney personally reaped $473,000.
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In 1997, he balked again, at the acquisition of a Los Angeles video distributor and movie producer that would be renamed Artisan Entertainment and become famous for producing the movie “The Blair Witch Project.”
Romney worried that Bain Capital’s image would suffer from the perception it “had gone Hollywood,” according to Rehnert, the Bain partner who proposed he deal.
Romney had another problem. The studio had an extensive library of R-rated films, which The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints discourages its members from watching.
Rehnert calmed Romney’s image concerns by enlisting a Chicago firm to join the deal, sharing the risk and deflecting attention from Bain.
Romney, balancing his duty to make money for his investors with his religious beliefs, let the deal go through, but declined to co-invest his own money, which partners usually did.
“I didn’t want to profit from a studio that made R-rated movies,” Romney said recently.
By the time Bain Capital sold its interest in Artisan in 1999, it had more than tripled its investment.
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http://www.allbusiness.com/services/motion-pictures/4927634-1.html
Can an upstart born in porn become the premier independent film studio? That’s what the founders of Artisan Entertainment are betting, despite the odds.
Ever since last summer, when a group of investors took LIVE Entertainment private in a $150 million buyout, they have pledged to turn the newly named Artisan into a major Hollywood contender.
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At Bain Consulting, Curcio was a partner in the Los Angeles office, where he worked on entertainment mergers and acquisitions. In doing so, Curcio and his partners realized the industry’s potential.
“It’s a huge industry with high growth rates that historically do not invest well,” he said.
As a consultant, Curcio met Block, who at the time was with ICM.
“We looked at buying October Films, but then the price went up, and Universal bought them,” said Curcio. Then, Bain stumbled onto LIVE Entertainment, which at the time was trying to recapitalize.
LIVE had a checkered history. The company started as Caballero, a firm whose output included numerous pornographic videos. In the mid-1980s, Caballero sold LIVE Entertainment its children’s titles.
LIVE will be forever associated with the Menendez Brothers, whose father, Jose, headed the company in the late 1980s. When Jose and his wife, Kitty, were gunned down at their Beverly Hills home in 1989, the sons, who were later convicted of the crimes, suggested that a porn-film purveyor was the murderer.
Yeah, criticizing corporate fraud is just playing the politics of envy and is Anti-Capitalist.
A lot of Freepers think that any criticism of corporate practices is just leftist Anti-Capitalist propaganda.
They want us to ignore all the crap that Romney did when he was a "successful venture capitalist."