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
She wants full attention on her because today is Trump’s BIG reveal.
Or she needs to gas up her broom and is waiting for donations because fuel is so expensive.
Supermarket checkout rack trash.
Ho-hum
No judge in their right or wrong mind would entertain a motion to unseal the testimony. The real victims here could be the couple’s children, as they begin to learn the tawdry and unsettling details of their parent’s divorce.
If someone had told me in 2004 that a guy would be President of the United States because a family court judge ignored the welfare of a young boy and unsealed he-said/she-said testimony about the parents going to sex clubs, I would have called that nuts.
You're correct, but she doesn't have to be.
(see, I'm trying to be "inclusive").
in order for allred to appear in mass she has to consent to jurisdiction.
Thus if the judge upholds the gag order then allred is ALSO SUBJECT TO THE GAG ORDER.
this is one way to shut her up.
This is a distraction.
Has anyone seen the romney crowds?
Has anyone read the article about NC voting machines only registering votes as all votes for Obama?
There in lies reality. Regardless of anyone's *testimony* sounds like she took her own attorney's suggestion.
Now, back to the Benghazi travesty...where four American's died while this administration knew exactly what was going on.
So it's all about support for a bimbo who had a schlocumentary on the PMS channel? And the bimbo can't even get a press release right. Romney was never the Republican nominee, former or otherwise, in the 2008 Presidential race. There was only one Republican nominee (the guy who actually got the nomination). Romney aspired unsuccessfully for the nomination in 2008.
You guys bring up a very valid point, but you should also keep this point in mind: Dems have been trying everything against this guy that used to work, and finding out it isn’t working. This will likely be more in the same vein. Also keep in mind that in 2004 nobody outside Chicago knew what an incompetent twit Obama was, and the IL GOP put possibly the worst possible candidate up against him. This time he’s going down in flames and the candidate on the other side is kicking butt and taking names.
You know that it’s all about stopping the Mitt-momentum and having us take our eyes away from the ball.
Despicable.
That’s the plan.
Yes, but if Romney says, as his lawyer has said, “Go ahead and release my testimony, it’s fine with me if America sees it” there’s no reason to think there’s anything in there to hide.
Exactly. Thy know there is nothig there and nothing to fear, but the Obamites were hoping they would fight to keep them sealed.
... and guaranteed to have more front page/lead story coverage than the Benghazi cover-up in the "MSM".
This is Debate 3 rerun. They were so sure Romney would attack 0bama on Libya, but they were wrong. Now, they probably hoped Romney to fight them to keep the record sealed.
Even better.
Easy divorce is a major problem for our society, but one of the perverse benefits is that this woman is likely to remind a lot of men of their first wife, or the shrew who divorced one of their friends...and remind a lot of women of their bitter divorced friend or relative who blames every problem in her life on a man she divorced before the turn of the century.
It’s obvious that Allred has absolutely nothing. Won’t it be funny if Trump actually does have proof that Obama was a foreign student or worse? Talk about a plan blowing up in your face!
The Obama’s campaign has a habit of getting documents unsealed right before an election. That is of course as long as it isn’t documents concerning himself.
True enough. I met Jack Ryan a few weeks before they torpedoed him.
Ryan’s only defense would have been to accuse his wife of perjury and he not only wasn’t willing to do that, she was already saying that the public should put it aside and focus on what a great senator he would be.
If the GOP had been able to find a good candidate, I think Obama would have lost the Senate race and still be in the IL legislature. Romney and his campaign are competent in ways Keyes and his campaign never imagined.
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