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Fri Feb 2, 2024, 10:39 AM Feb 2024

Mike Roman is in the spotlight after his allegations

By Jon Swaine, Shawn Boburg and Josh Dawsey
February 2, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. EST

... During the 2008 campaign, Roman worked for the presidential campaigns of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). The campaigns paid him and a small consulting firm he had formed a total of more than $142,000 in pay and expenses, according to campaign finance reports ...

... Roman and his partner, Adrienne McAllister, fell behind on repaying their mortgage. In July 2009, their lender moved to foreclose on their modest Philadelphia house.

Two months later, McAllister filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy ... McAllister reported in her bankruptcy filings that she and Roman owed more than $12,400 in overdue mortgage payments and that she owed thousands in other debts. She would file for bankruptcy four more times over the next decade, even as Roman in some years received six-figure incomes ...

Roman and McAllister have seven children together, according to court records and social media posts. They have long referred to each other online and to some friends as husband and wife ...

... across her five bankruptcy petitions, McAllister described Roman as her “live-in boyfriend” or the father of her children ... Roman would later give his marital status as “single” to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office when he was booked on the charges in Georgia ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/02/02/mike-roman-trump-georgia-election-case-fani-willis/

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