Why Won't Romney Release More Tax Returns (The New Yorker)

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16. Its most likely his investments betray him....

Some of these companies were warned by the US and have been investigated or are currently under investigation by the State Department and the Treasury Department whether their business connections violate U.S. sanctions against trade with Iran.

Moreover, in August 2010, United Against Nuclear Iran, a non-profit organization dedicated to monitoring Iran, has listed many of the above companies as ones to be closely monitored for their business dealings with Iran.

In 2007, when he was running against John McCain, Romney promised his trust would sell off any investments that conflicted with Republican positions on hot-button domestic and foreign policy issues such as abortion, stem cell research and nuclear weapons. But according to a detailed review of Romney’s financial records by The Associated Press, trading went on until 2010 when those interests were finally sold off for more than $3 million.

When the revelations were exposed, a Romney campaign spokesperson, Andrea Saul, used the same line of debunked “blind trust” pretext to spin it. She said the former Massachusetts governor had no control over the investments made by his blind trust. Here is the link to another one of my reports where Romney clearly says –in a video- “blind trust is an age-old ruse. You can always tell the blind trust what it can and cannot do.”

http://www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin/iowa/ajax.html?t=11271667#page:showThread,11271667

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/01/28/romneys-blind-trust-in-collective-amnesia-video/

And as once Governor Huckabee said: “If a man’s dishonest to get a job, he’ll be dishonest on the job".