According to an investigation by the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant and the Dutch financial journalism organization called Follow the Money, Bain Capital apparently dodged some €80 million ($102 million) in taxes by using a loophole in the Netherlands— some of which found its way into Mitt Romney's pocket.
Matt Taibbi is hardly the first to compare Mitt Romney to Gordon Gekko, and he's not the first to argue that Bain Capital's corporate takeovers were insidious, but he goes further in his latest long-form Rolling Stone takedown by connecting Romney's uncompromising pursuit of profit at Bain with his changing political stances.
Mitt Romney's been getting hammered for his time as the head of Bain Capital for months, and he's sick and tired and not taking it anymore. It prepared him for the Presidency, he says, and he's making his case in a new Wall Street Journal editorial.
Gawker's John Cook has posted 950 pages of financial documents related to Mitt Romney's investments during his time at Bain Capital, but the trick now is finding experts willing to read through them all and explain what they might mean.
Today in Ad Watch: Remember how in like every political story for the past year, reporters would caution that this election is all about the economy? Right now, that's not true. It's about welfare, Medicare, student loans, and mean ads.
"Oh, that was a moment of humor as we had just done what we thought was impossible," Mitt Romney says in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek today, defusing that now-infamous photo of him and his Bain buddies bro-ing out the best way he knows how: clunky awkwardness.
Today in Ad Watch: Usually Democrats are the ones reminiscing about the 1990s, but now it's Mitt Romney getting nostalgic for the Clinton years. Meanwhile, a pro-President Obama Super PAC beats up Romney with a sad story about a woman's cancer.
The idea that you can visit a doctor and become worse, seems like an outcome belonging to medieval times, but an investigation in The New York Times shows how profit incentives can drive hospitals to recommend more excessive procedures for patients even if the procedures are unnecessary and risky.
It may not seem like it now, but the dealings of HCA Healthcare, the largest U.S. hospital operator, could be one of the biggest political stories of August.
Mitt Romney's tax returns and his quit date Bain Capital were the big political stories for weeks, but now talk on that issue has gone silent. Did Romney manage to ride it out and deflect the damage? Or did President Obama fundamentally change how voters see him?
A majority of voters think they have all the information they could want on Romney and Obama in one poll. In another they are frustrated with negative campaigning. Meanwhile, Romney and Obama are tied. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Mitt Romney has said he doesn't recall attending Bain board meetings after he took a leave of absence on February 11, 1999, to run the 2002 Winter Olympics, but on Friday, the Boston Globe's Beth Healy and Michael Kranish report that he attended a Palm Beach meeting to celebrate the firms 15th anniversary after he'd already left for Salt Lake.
If Mitt Romney won't defend capitalism and those who've thrived in it, who will?
Politicians like to have a character to refer to in their stump speeches to dramatize their abstract disagreements with their opponent's position -- a widow without health care, a Wall Street banker with a fat bonus, a plumber -- but after unrelenting emphasis on Mitt Romney's career at Bain, President Obama has made his opponent and prop one and the same.
Supporters of President Obama have learned a valuable lesson from a laid-off steelworker in a popular anti-Bain ad who has gone off the reservation: just because someone doesn't like Mitt Romney doesn't mean they're an Obama supporter.
The Dark Knight Rises is ostensibly a fantasy. So why does it feel like one of the most political movies of the summer?
A lot of Republicans offered Mitt Romney advice this weekend on how to get past the stories about Bain capital and his tax returns, but Romney is not going to follow any of it.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker opened his internet doors to Reddit users in an "Ask Me Anything" session on Sunday. He explained, among other things, what went through his mind when he ran into that burning building.
Mitt Romney said he had no management role at Bain Capital after February 1999 -- and, by the way, he'd release no more than two years of tax returns -- in interviews with five networks Friday night.
This weekend's forecast calls for a lot more Mitt Romney on your television, as the presidential candidate has booked three network interviews tonight and hired two new communications staffers.
Today in Ad Watch: Mitt Romney airs his second attack ad on President Obama's attack ads, while Democrats say Republican governors who won't expand Medicaid because it's expensive are liars.
When Mitt Romney was running for Massachusetts governor in 2002, it was in his interest to make his exit date from Bain Capital a little fuzzy.
After battles over the precise nature of Mitt Romney's role at Bain Capital, it would appear his campaign biography is now that he was a successful business executive who built a fabulous job-creating machine which, the moment he stepped away from it, turned into the pits of Mordor.
In every campaign he's run in the last 10 years, Mitt Romney has claimed he made a clean break from Bain Capital in February 1999 as a way to defend himself from charges that he laid off workers and outsourced jobs overseas. But more and more evidence is mounting that the break wasn't so clean.
Mitt Romney was still making decisions at Bain Capital, and still getting paid for it, for at least three years longer than he's previously said, the Boston Globe reported on Thursday.
President Obama hasn't been able to convince Americans he's doing a better job on the economy, but he has managed to convince some of them that Mitt Romney did bad things at Bain Capital.
Mother Jones's David Corn has a report out this morning that pushes the continuing attacks on Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital forward not just because of the business it involves — disposing of aborted fetuses — but because it extends the length of time he worked at Bain.
Mitt Romney's campaign keeps shifting its response to attacks on his career at Bain Capital after President Obama's campaign seized on a Washington Post story calling the company a "pioneer" in lowering costs by moving jobs overseas.
Today in Ad Watch: Mitt Romney pounces on President Obama's comment that the private sector is "fine," a pro-Obama Super PAC launches several ads attacking Romney as a jerk, and Allen West shows his warm and fuzzy side.
Today in Ad Watch: Mitt Romney responds to President Obama's attacks on his jobs record, while the Republican National Committee makes Obama look like a whiner.
Today in Ad Watch: The wars of Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital continue with a new ad from President Obama's Super PAC and a response from Romney. Plus, Obama reaches out to seniors and veterans.
Today in Ad Watch: Karl Rove tries the soft sell on swing voters using a little CGI, while President Obama and Mitt Romney fight for reporters over Bain Capital.
Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn said on MSNBC Tuesday he had a problem with Mitt Romney and Bain Capital "raping companies and leaving them in debt," a poorly selected metaphor that even his friends don't much like.
This has been a very good couple days for Cory Booker. After the Democrat equated President Obama's attacks on Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital with Republican attacks on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- both are "nauseating," Booker said -- he has accomplished four things.
Why is President Obama’s reelection campaign doubling down on its attacks on Mitt Romney’s business record at Bain Capital, despite blowback from some supporters? Because they might work.
Yes, it was a press conference at the NATO summit, nominally about global politics and economics, but in an election year it's no surprise the second question for President Barack Obama was about Newark Mayor Cory Booker's criticism of his campaign's attacks on Mitt Romney.
It's like the Obama campaign is running a miniseries about Bain Capital, and this week's episode is about Ampad, which went bankrupt after Bain took it over.
Every time Mitt Romney has run for office, his Democratic opponent has made a big deal about his career at Bain Capital.
Meet the television star of the fledgling 2012 general election campaign: the sad sack.
Americans think the economy is getting better, but they think that Romney could do a better job of handling it. So it's no suprise that in the last 24 hours three different ads have been released focusing on Romney's record at Bain Capital as a job destroyer.
South Carolina ads target his time at Bain and as Massachusetts governor.
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