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
Probably Romney testified in favor of this guy.. wouldn’t be surprised to have ex-wife and maybe kids come out now and say the guy was terrible dad or something like that..
Hah! I hope this is it! Who cares? Mitt testified for his friend and business partner in a messy divorce case.
Gloria Allred is the anti Perry Mason...I don’t think she has EVER won a court case.
Interresting. If I was married to Wookie, I woould divorce her. And vice-versa.
Guess they got marriage counseling from Bill and Hillary Clinton!!
Some on Twitter are speculating she’s after felony perjury.
I thought the left admired perjury?
They also admire felons.
Yes, but in the Ryans case, it involved the candidate himself (Ryan). Here, Romney was only a witness. Unless he lied under oath on something that could easily be proven untruth, the link is not that strong.
Meanwhile the drip, drip, drip of Benghazi continues.
Seriously?
So in other words, if this is true, then it’s as stupid and as sleazy, and as totally unrelated to the candidate’s qualifications for president as Trump’s story about the Obama divorce is. Can things get any more ridiculous?
This is IT??!!
Gloria, Gloria, you’re really slipping.
I guess “juicy details” is in the eye of the beholder...
Gloria, $o Mitt te$tified in a divorce. What do you get out of thi$. Are you doing thi$ $o Obama get$ re-elected. I$ thi$ what you gain? Or i$ it greed that drive$ your finding$? My thought i$ that you are doing it a$ a donation. Not
What a shocker.lol.
I can smell the fear in the Demoncrats.
Please America,make an European happy by givig Mitt Romney a landslide. One that will make the Demoncrats be on suicide watch for ever.
Will stay up and watch the results...nothing more sastifying than watching Demoncrats lose.
This is a game-changer for me! How could you, Mitt?
That does it. I'm voting for Obama, now. Much better to have a lying Marxist who's suppressing our drive to become energy-independent, alienating our traditional allies, spending like a drunken Navy armada, bankrupting our nation and crushing our heirs with debt, than to elect somebody who had the temerity to testify for a friend in a divorce case.
He probably told the truth, too. Despicable!!!
Governor Romney is running for President of the United States and this goes to a very important character issues,
What about a former IL State Senator trolling for gay sex in exchange for providing cocaine to complete strangers?
Nah, nothing abnormal there...for a lib.
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$taples founder’s ex-wife: I’ll be out on the street
Boston Herald (MA) - Sunday, September 3, 2006
Author: MARGERY EAGAN
EXCERPT
Spokesman George Regan insisted Friday that Tom Stemberg is “a very generous man,” that their son has a “hefty trust fund,” that Stemberg has paid and will continuing paying her insurance - though no word on the house or increased support. He also said SullivanStemberg ‘s characterization of her ex-husband is unfair. “She’s shopped this story all over town,” Regan said. “There’s no story.”
“According to Hillbuzz, Trump’s revelation will noy be divorce papers, but will be about Hussein getting aid as a foreign student under another garbled form of his name Soetero.”
OH I do hope that is what The Donald has to put out there. It is EXACTLY how I figured OLoser got his college paid for a long time now. We know rather than point her crooked finger at Obama and call HIM dishonest (like she’s implying for Romney) she will have an EXCUSE for her White House god.
Unsealing divorce records is how Hussein got into the US Senate in the first place.
Yup
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ryan_%28politician%29
“I’m still waiting for the information from Trumph on Obozo.”
Trump’s news is all over the Daily Mail UK. He’s managed to unearth Bozo and the Wookiee’s divorce papers. Reason I think that is important in light of Gloria Allred’s nut case story is this:
Allred is saying “honesty/intergrity” is SOOOO important in a president. YES...OBAMA LIED FLAT OUT AND SAID HE NOR WOOKIEE HAD EVER FILED FOR DIVORCE.
How long I wonder before Allred points to her omessiah’s dishonestly being a problem? Hmmmm....
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...
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