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trailmonkee

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Mon Sep 24, 2012, 08:22 PM Sep 2012

Daily Kos: Did Romney Receive ‘Amnesty’ From Federal Tax Evasion? [View all]

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Source: CBS NEWS/Daily Kos

WASHINGTON (CBS WASHINGTON) – A hypothesis test on Daily Kos explores the suspicion that Mitt Romney is one of 5,000 wealthy Americans who were given “amnesty” for tax evasion.

Christopher Tucker’s article titled, “Dark Secret in Romney’s Missing Tax Files: Amnesty from prison for Top-1% Tax Cheats?” tests the accusation in a scientific method that he hopes other journalists use to avoid the media causing more, “unacceptable decay of our democratic institutions.”

The article highlights Romney’s hostility towards requests for transparency about his past tax records. As of Sept. 21, he had only released his tax records for 2010-11, which many critics have used to support suspicions that he has exploited a myriad of tax loopholes, and off-shore tax havens

Tucker offers the following falsifiable prediction:

“Mitt Romney is hiding the fact that the he was one of the 5000 wealthy American tax-dodgers that Swiss bank UBS turned over to US authorities, as part of a USDOJ-brokered 2009 deal, which both fined UBS for hiding rich American’s money in a massive tax-evasion scheme, and offered the 5000 rich Americans “amnesty” (from criminal prosecution, trials & prison time), if they paid back the tax revenues they stole from US Treasury during the previous years.”

Read more: http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/09/24/daily-kos-did-romney-receive-amnesty-from-federal-tax-evasion/



This is just the latest story and the first I have seen from a major MM news source (CBS DC)... this thread links to several other stories that connect the dots on the whole Amnesty thing: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021404680
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tax evasion, schmax evasion.... mike_c Sep 2012 #1
Except when he is orange isn't High Definition great? gordianot Sep 2012 #7
hoping interest in this spreads!!! robinlynne Sep 2012 #2
I like the sound of that "barely escaped prison." Does sound kind of presidential. dimbear Sep 2012 #3
So true Sophiegirl Sep 2012 #4
lol Cha Sep 2012 #10
Draft Dodger and a Tax Dodger Berlum Sep 2012 #5
And vote frauder NBachers Sep 2012 #14
This is a poorly written article. jerseyjack Sep 2012 #6
What the public eye hates is a tax cheat and tap dancing amnesty taking merchant of Bluenorthwest Sep 2012 #8
some better articles on the subject here.... trailmonkee Sep 2012 #9
Are you familiar with the 2009 Tax amnesty program? Ash_F Sep 2012 #12
The point is that humbled_opinion Sep 2012 #15
That doesn't sound like true falsifiability to me. BadgerKid Sep 2012 #11
It's something that RMoney can easily put to bed tavalon Sep 2012 #17
there is most certainly a list of amnesty takers... trailmonkee Sep 2012 #25
The Other Issue in the Tax Returns chuckstevens Sep 2012 #13
I wonder if a copy of that UBS list of tax cheats could be obtained aint_no_life_nowhere Sep 2012 #16
It's important to remember that many people believe Grammy23 Sep 2012 #18
I think I smell a rat sellitman Sep 2012 #19
I asked that question here back in July Samantha Sep 2012 #20
tnx trailmonkee Sep 2012 #22
I think Harry Reid might know someone who knows, and who told him, but he can't say. MADem Sep 2012 #21
2008, 2009 financial disclosure nycbiscuit Sep 2012 #23
You know Cantaloupe Man did! We all do. nt valerief Sep 2012 #24
Locking, sorry, this is not breaking news, but speculation/analysis. Rhiannon12866 Sep 2012 #26
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