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Romney revising disclosures for overseas accounts
Mitt Romney could face new questions about his overseas investments after a campaign official acknowledged to NBC News that his campaign is revising his federal ethics forms to report more than a half dozen offshore holdings, including income from a multi-million dollar Swiss bank account that was not disclosed last year.
The tax returns released by the Romney campaign this week showed that the Ann Romney Blind Trust had reported $1,783 in interest income from a bank account held at UBS in Switzerland in 2010. But interest from the Swiss bank account -- as well as holdings in other offshore investments in the Cayman Islands, Bermudas and Ireland that appear in the trust fund's tax returns -- were not disclosed in Romneys financial disclosure form filed with the Office of Government Ethics last August.
A Romney campaign official emailed Thursday afternoon that Romneys financial disclosure form is now being amended with the government ethics office to address this minor discrepancy and to deal with some other minor issues. The Romney campaigns decision to amend the forms, and additional details about the failure to report the overseas holdings, was also reported Thursday by Los Angeles Times.
The number and size of Romneys offshore investments have lately emerged as a major campaign issue, putting the former Massachusetts governor on the defensive over his wealth (estimated at up to $250 million) and forcing his campaign to release his 2010 tax returns this week. When the campaign released the returns on Monday, it arranged for R. Bradford Malt, a longtime lawyer for the Romneys, to brief reporters in a conference call about them.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/26/10244809-romney-revising-disclosures-for-overseas-accounts
Major Nikon
(36,818 posts)How stupid does Willard think everyone is?
Amonester
(11,541 posts)the national spotlight...
Thieves.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)Hhahhahaha.