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FRANKLIN, Tenn. The Secret Service said Wednesday it is investigating the reported theft of copies of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's federal tax records during a break-in at an accounting office in Franklin. Someone claiming responsibility demanded $1 million not to make them public.
An anonymous letter sent to Romney's accounting firm and political offices in Tennessee and published online sought $1 million in hard-to-trace Internet currency to prevent the disclosure of his tax filings, which have emerged as a key focus during the 2012 presidential race. Romney released his 2010 tax returns and a 2011 estimate in January, but he has refused to disclose his returns from earlier years.
Romney's accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, said there was no evidence that any Romney tax files were stolen.
"At this time there is no evidence that our systems have been compromised or that there was any unauthorized access to the data in question," PricewaterhouseCoopers spokesman Chris Atkins said. ................(more)
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riverbendviewgal
(4,254 posts)such a fake story
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)Rove would have come up with something a lot more convincing.
dems_rightnow
(1,956 posts)But there are some pretty stupid people out there. If it IS true, there's no way they will get paid without some jail time.
malaise
(269,219 posts)They know Dems have the goods on Rmoney's tax problems and are trying to silence Dems on the subject.
flamingdem
(39,332 posts)on the issue, somehow they're trying to get sympathy for Mitt.
Or they could float squeaky clean tax returns and say they're his.
It's totally suspicious and I'm sure those documents were in a safe
malaise
(269,219 posts)Very suspicious
Warpy
(111,383 posts)but you can bet even the hard drives Rmoney's tax returns are sitting on are in a big safe with a time lock.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)...the $1 million was to be paid in something called Bitcoins, a supposedly untraceable online currency.
Well....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014219678
Scuba
(53,475 posts)limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)flamingdem
(39,332 posts)sounds Nixonian somehow
AnneD
(15,774 posts)Sounds like a Rove disinformation or PSYOP campaign.
spanone
(135,900 posts)sounds bogus to me.....
like the local republican leader said...if it's really romney's taxes, why only a million? and why would they extort it from a local republican precinct....
but hey whaddo i know?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)No, I don't think it is BS that the Secret Service is investigating the matter.
trixicopper
(62 posts)Makes me wonder what Dr. Evil is up to these days.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)a computer somewhere. Copies of the returns were with the preparers, the last repug campaign, the people doing financial business with the Romney's and probably elsewhere.
Someone has the ability to get their hands on them.
SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)But I don't want the law broken to do it.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)if it turns out to be true, I'm sure we'll know all about it.
In the meantime we can continue to ask Senor Romney where are his tax returns and what is he hiding?!
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)In 1986, Rove helped Clements become governor a second time. In a strategy memo Rove wrote for his client prior to the race, now among Clements's papers in the Texas A&M University library, Rove quoted Napoleon: "The whole art of war consists in a well-reasoned and extremely circumspect defensive, followed by rapid and audacious attack."
In 1986, just before a crucial debate in campaign, Rove claimed that his office had been bugged by Democrats. The police and FBI investigated and discovered that the bug's battery was so small that it needed to be changed every few hours, and the investigation was dropped. Critics, including other Republican operatives, suspected Rove had bugged his own office to garner sympathy votes in the close governor's race.
tuvor
(15,663 posts)If there is something sneaky going on, I wonder how that would play out.