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By Dan Primack August 23, 2012: 1:33 PM eastern
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/23/gawkers-worthless-bain-files-2/
Gawker release the papers one hour before that.
and there are over 900 pages.
AUG 23, 2012 12:00 PM
http://gawker.com/5933641
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)riiiiiight
pnwmom
(108,959 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)or at least their money reporter was.
I looked at the reporters history and he's big on
the same shit Bain did.
Well let the games begin.
warrior1
(12,325 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)neither is Gawker on TV but is maybe more read than CNN
grasswire
(50,130 posts)gabeana
(3,166 posts)on this article they are calling out Primack as a hack
Enrique
(27,461 posts)he called out Romney on his Solyndra "inspector general" lie as hard as I've seen:
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/04/romney-wrong-on-solyndra-facts/
"An independent inspector general looked at this investment and concluded that the Administration had steered money to friends and family and campaign contributors."
Small problem: No inspector general ever "concluded" such a thing, at least not based on any written reports or public statements.
Romney seemed to be referring to Congressional testimony offered up by Gregory Friedman, inspector general of the U.S. Department of Energy, from March 2011. In it, he said: "We currently have 64 open investigations associated with the Recovery Act
Schemes under investigation include the submission of false information in applications for funding, fraudulent claims for rebates, claims for unallowable or unauthorized expenses, the directing of contracts and grants to friends and family, weatherization fraud to 7 include mischarging, and other attempts to fraudulently obtain Recovery Act funds."
Not only did Friedman never specifically cite Solyndra, but his office never brought charges related to any "directing of contracts and grants to friends and family." A spokeswoman for the DoE Inspector General's office declined to say whether any such investigation remained open, except to say that it never made the type of conclusion asserted by Romney.
In response to my inquiry, a Romney spokeswoman forwarded me a link to a Newsweek piece that mischaracterized Friedman's "friends and family" line (albeit without linking it specifically to Solyndra). She also noted that Obama supporter George Kaiser was the "single largest investor" in Solyndra, even though it actually was the private equity arm of a nonprofit, anti-poverty foundation founded by Kaiser.
When I wrote back for further clarification or perhaps a retraction the Romney spokeswoman went radio silent.
It's one thing to spin something to one's advantage. It's another to simply make things up to make the other guy look bad. Romney's Solyndra speech was an example of the latter. Disgraceful.
FirstLight
(13,357 posts)I am waiting for the detailed reporting from Rachel, Lawrence, ED, etc.... maybe even Krugman ...
personally, the more and more that comes out will show that he LIED about resident status, about leaving Bain in '99 and all of that is at least Perjury on the SEC and FEC filings, if not felony tax evasion........ I am waiting for the subpoenas to come next... by Nov, he is gonna be TOAST...it would be icing on the cake...he loses the election and then has to go to court to defend his stashing of millions....
Renew Deal
(81,847 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)It will be in the news and sorted, hashed, diced and sliced
for the next few weeks.
Which is good
BTW..........Where are his TAXES?..
I'm sure that will come up again after this.
Renew Deal
(81,847 posts)And that's how they know he hasn't paid.
DearAbby
(12,461 posts)Let us go through it and see if we agree with your assessment.