Mitt Romney's Biggest Backers: Pyramid Schemers?

[eridani]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/mitt-romney-nu-skin-mormon-church

The execs who set up shell companies to funnel millions to a pro-Romney PAC are connected to the same Utah firm that regulators have sued for scamming consumers.

omney is probably best known for his work at the private equity firm Bain Capital. But the former Massachusetts governor and current GOP presidential contender also has close ties to a Utah-based company—one that doesn't have quite the cachet of the Wall Street power broker Bain. Instead, some of Romney's most loyal financial backers hail from a Provo, Utah-based company called Nu Skin that has had repeated run-ins with federal regulators for deceptive business practices and has been criticized as nothing more than a pyramid scheme.

[longship]

1. Dick DeVoss of AmWay fame. Big Rep supporter.

His damn family just about owns the city of Grand Rapids, MI. (And the former Blackwater, too.)

[liberal N proud]

2. This campaign is full of the surreal!

[jmowreader]

3. He's also being supported by Frank Vandersloot of Melaleuca

Melaleuca is an Idaho-based MLM run by Mormons.