Posted on 10/24/2012 5:39:56 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Gloria Allred's Surprise For Mitt Romney Revealed! Posted on Oct 23, 2012 @ 05:15PM
By Jen Heger - Radar Assistant Managing Editor
Gloria Allred's October surprise for Governor Mitt Romney involves allegations about a child custody matter that the Republican presidential hopeful testified about involving his very good friend, and former CEO of Staples, Tom Stemberg and his divorce form one of his two ex-wives, RadarOnline.com is reporting.
The founder of Staples, who spoke on behalf of Governor Mitt Romney at the Republican National Convention in Tampa Bay, Florida last summer, has four sons from two different ex-wives, Maureen Sullivan Stemberg and Dola Hamilton Stemburg. Mitt Romney's hedge fund, Bain Capital, was an early investor of Staples. Tom Stemberg's sons are in their mid-teens and early twenties.
"Governor Mitt Romney gave sworn testimony about his observations of Tom's role as a father to his four sons," a source close to the situation told RadarOnline.com. Our source wouldn't provide any additional information because of Governor Romney's sworn declaration and gag order.
Stemberg's first wife, Maureen, had a documentary, The Maureen Sullivan Stemberg Story: A Portrait in Courage, which aired on Lifetime. According to a 2008 press release, "Maureen Sullivan Stemberg will provide an in-depth account in this first-time tell all tale of the interweaving relationships and strange bedfellow that business has made in her life. Such luminaries include former Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney - who was the former Republican nominee in the 2008 Presidential campaign, as well as one of the first major investors for Staples while he was employed by Bain Capital, Boston, MA. This story will include the injustice of the Mass. Probate Justice system. Other heavy hitting names have yet to be released in this as of yet untold story including Dola Davis Hamilton Stemberg."
Tom Stemberg's divorce attorney, Joel Kozel is expected to be at the family law courthouse in the Boston area on Wednesday morning as the Boston Globe petitions to have the court records unsealed.
As RadarOnline.com was the first to report exclusively, the Boston Globe will be in court for an emergency hearing "in an attempt to obtain a court order to unseal the sworn testimony given by Mitt Romney in a prior court case and to lift a gag order so that the parties can speak about Romney. Gloria Allred will be in court representing one of the parties in the case," a source close to the situation previously told us.
"Ms. Allred's client feels that the public needs to know about Governor Mitt Romney's role in this very important case. Governor Romney is running for President of the United States and this goes to a very important character issues," the insider revealed. It's unclear if Governor Romney will have lawyers present at the hearing on Wednesday morning.
The emergency hearing will take place at the Norfolk Probate & Family Court in Canton, Massachusetts, and Justice Jennifer Ulwick will oversee the proceedings which will begin at 9 a.m. EST.
Stemberg founded Staples and was the CEO for 16 years. According to the Huffington Post, "Bain Capital, the private equity firm that Romney helped found, was one of the early investors in Staples, and the former Massachusetts governor remained on the retailer's board for more than a decade. In claiming he helped create some 100,000 jobs in the private sector over the years, the Romney campaign has leaned heavily on the success of the office supplier, citing roughly 90,000 Staples jobs in their math."
Romney's pal was featured at the RNC last summer and addressed the delegates and said, "He (Mitt Romney) never looked at Staples as merely a financial investment. He saw the engine of prosperity it could become. Today Staples employs nearly 90,000 people. It has over 2,000 stores, over 50 distribution centers, and it is part of a competitive industry that helps entrepreneurs and small businesses get started on their own. You have to ask yourself, why would an administration that can't create any jobs demonize someone who did?"
According to a report from the National Employment Law Project Action Fund, Staples is one of the lowest wage employers in the country.
During a interview with PBS' Frontline earlier this year Stemberg said the first time he met Romney, "when you first walked in and saw Mitt, he looked like a guy who ought to be president of the United States. This guy, he looked perfect; he dressed perfect; he spoke perfectly. He asked the most poignant questions in a very, very nice way and didn't make you feel defensive and really drew the best or worst out of you. He was just really, really good."
Stemberg also said that Mitt Romney was no shrinking violet and wasn't concerned about his friend entering politics when he decided to run for governor of Massachusetts. "Nobody pushes Mitt Romney around. Having said that, if there's one person whom he will almost always defer to, it's Ann Romney," Stemberg told PBS.
Most polls indicate that the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney is a statistical dead heat.
Gloria Allred, Tom Stemberg, and representatives for Governor Mitt Romney didn't immediately respond to request for comment on this story.
Stay tuned to RadarOnline.com for developments on this story
SHEESH. Like after Billy Clinton lowere the bar, I really don’t want to hear some sad sob story. I could care less.
Also, it’s not fair to consider sealed documents about Romney until all Obama’s sealed records are released.
It won’t change anything for me.
It doesn’t matter what the facts are. What matters is what the media reports.
Let’s keep reminding ourselves: it’s the media, stupid.
Leftist kooks are grasping at straws this time around. I hear Romney once farted in public.
We can see just how much liberals respect other people’s personal privacy.
When it gets in the way of something they want.
So he has Bill Clinton’s vote in the bag, anyway! LOL
I wonder if there will be any other information contained in those divorce documents prepared by Michelle, allegations of being unfaithful (gay sex), disclosure of a SSN different from the one he is using today, disclosure of an alias or use of another name as his legal name...
Who knows? But now I hope the poster who said THEY heard it was about OBummer getting college aid by stating he was a foreign student. That would be MUCH better.
OMG NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ROMNEY KNEW SOMEONE WHO GOT DIVORCED?????? AND WAS ASKED TO TESTIFY??????????????????????????????????????????????
THE HORROR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know what the supposed injustice is..
rule for man... injustice..
rule for woman.... justice served against the evil man..
take your feminazi crap on down the road, most people just do not care
Leftist kooks are grasping at straws this time around. I hear Romney once farted in public.
>>>>>>>>>> If so I hope he was standing right, next to Allred when he did that (after a hefty dinner of beans and cornbread ;>)
I thought the left admired perjury?
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Yep, that's the story. He supposedly said the stock was not worth much and downplayed the value. It is said that he was working on taking it public at the same time he gave the testimony.
However, it does not make a lot of sense to me. If he did undervalue the stock, I would think that she would have gotten more shares not less.
BTW, This idiot sold off her shares right before they took the company public.
1. This shows the true desperation of the Obama camp. Their campaign polls obviously show a loss coming up.
2. If the judge unseals this trash, the story needs to be “corrupt judge appointed by Obama friend tries to steal U.S. election.”
If they filed years ago, didn’t he claim at one time to be born in Kenya?
Hey, don’t forget the fact that he was never divorced, too!
WTH??????....they can't even get their KNOWN facts straight? This is trash..............
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INSIDE TRACK Here’s the fax: Staples boss’ divorce gets uglier
Boston Herald (MA) - Monday, May 15, 1995
Author: Gayle Fee & Laura Raposa
EXCERPT
Maureen is appealing a probate court decision that said that her divorce settlement - reportedly the equity in the couple’s $700,000 Dedham house, some $100,000 in furnishings, 500,000 shares of Staples stock (worth roughly $13 million), $32,000-a-year in alimony, $24,000 in annual child support and other benefits - was unfair.
According to an article in the Boston Globe in 2005, Maureen received nearly 500,000 shares of Staples stock in the divorce ... but sold half her shares before the company went public.
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INSIDE TRACK - Suit doesn’t put much stock in lawyers’ advice
Boston Herald (MA) - Wednesday, October 25, 1995
Author: Gayle Fee & Laura Raposa
The ex-wife of Staples czar Tom Stemberg is suing legendary Boston divorce attorney Monroe Inker and one current and one former member of his law firm, claiming they gave her lousy investment advice when they told her to sell her Staples stock to pay her legal fees.
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She HAS a DOCUMENTARY??????????????????? Hey, wait until mine comes out this fall! How anout you guys? When are your documentaries coming out????? She HAD a documentary????????????????? This is insane! Some harpy hated her husband so much she did a DOCUMENTARY??????????????? Crazy!
I'm sure your own attorney would advise you to NOT hold your breath while waiting.
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