Lawsuits hit a Romney money man
Ever since the McMartin case in the eighties where an entire family who ran a pre-school were charged with sexual abuse and later exonerated of all charges after coached witnesses, etc., were exposed as a fraud, one should hear allegations in a different light. Even after the trial more attempts to persecute the family in witch hunt fashion continued. It is too easy to render a verdict in the press. This story will have to cure for a while before this blog states ‘that’s gonna leave a mark’.
Could this be the first significant ding in the Romney armor in a campaign season? Now we should here the typical sound bites. Romney spokespersons will suggest you can’t know everyone working for the campaign that well. Spokespersons for the opposing camps may contend everyone should be background checked enough to uncover potential problems. But if the opposition is smart they will leave it alone lest Romney gets revenge when it is there turn. And it will be their turn. It will be everyone’s turn at some point during this painfully long but not boring campaign season.
Stanford Matthews
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Lawsuits hit a Romney money man
By Alexander Bolton
June 20, 2007
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) has collected hundreds of thousands of dollars through the fundraising efforts of a supporter targeted by several lawsuits alleging child abuse.In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, 133 plaintiffs have alleged that Robert Lichfield, co-chairman of Romney’s Utah finance committee owned or operated residential boarding schools for troubled teenagers where students were “subjected to physical abuse, emotional abuse and sexual abuse.”
June 20th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Though I can’t speak to the Romney situation, your reference to McMartin was an interesting one for reaching a verdict through the media. My good friend was the Asst. DA who prosecuted the case and you should know that the “verdict” in the media was an undue sympathy for a man who committed horrendous crimes against children. I’m not sure who you’re referring to as the “coached” witnesses, but I assume you’re speaking of children who had been seriously abused by this man and were frightened to be in the same room with him. Yes, they were coached to get through it, but not coached to lie. The jury and the public believed that this mentally challenged man “couldn’t possibly harm” these children in that way…they must be making it up. When in fact he DID do those things to those poor kids and then walked away scott free. That was not justice, regardless of what happened in the media.
June 20th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Kyle Sapp, aka, Kyle Zirpolo
2 deadlocked juries
one defendent, never convicted, 2 years in jail
another defendent, never convicted, 5 years in jail
you get the idea
same flavor as the OJ trial
verdicts with more questions that before the trials