"In other words, Romney is telling the voters he had no idea what Bain was doing after February 1999 even though he was listed as sole owner and stockholder while drawing a six figure salary from them for years after and four other mysterious business entities were incorporated in conjunction with Bain during that time. Remind me again why we’re supposed to trust his “business experience” if he didn’t even know what his corporation was doing in his name?
The Romney campaign announced it will demand the Globe retract the story, but they’re just reporting what the documents say and asking the appropriate questions. There is an easier way for Romney to resolve the discrepancies between his campaign statements and his legal filings. Rather than trying to browbeat the media into covering up for him, he could just release the last ten years of his tax returns as every serious candidate for president has done since his own father set the precedent."
Romney can remove the clouds of smoke surrounding these events by getting the documents out to the public now and by following up with direct and honest answers to the questions raised by the conflict between what Romney and Bain are saying now and what the contemporaneous documents disclose. Romney should not drag this out. Even if the truth is painful, get it all out now!