“..The Presidential campaign of Mitt Romney was rocked again yesterday as his private wealth came under fresh and unfriendly scrutiny in the media even as Democrats continued to exploit embarrassment created by comments from a conservative congressman in Missouri on rape and abortion.
The publication by the website Gawker of some 950 pages of documents offering glimpses into Mr Romney’s web of holdings – some in overseas territories like Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands -
- was a reminder of the candidate’s reticence fully to describe a fortune estimated at $250m – and the taxes he pays on his income.
The papers, some of which have been seen before – included letters and audits.
They are likely to fuel demands by Democrats that Mr Romney release tax filings far beyond the two years worth (one provisional) that he has made public so far.
Some of what the papers detail also appears to cast fresh doubt on claims he has made that he left Bain Capital – the private equity firm he founded – in 1999 -
- before it embarked on a firm-shuttering spree that cost thousands of American jobs…”
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