TMZ: Mitt Romney LIED under oath when he testified in the divorce of his good friend and screwed the friend's wife out of a lot of money in the process ... so claims the ex-wife of Staples' founder Tom Stemberg.
Multiple sources connected with the divorce tell TMZ ... during Tom's uber nasty divorce case with ex-wife Maureen, Mitt Romney gave a deposition and testified during the trial that Staples was worth virtually nothing. Romney testified that the company was worth very little and Tom was a dreamer and "the dream continues."
Romney characterized the Staples stock as "overvalued," adding, "I didn't place a great deal of credibility in the forecast of the company's future."
Partly as a result of Romney's testimony, Maureen got relatively little in the divorce, but we're told just weeks after the divorce ended, Romney and Tom went to Goldman Sachs and cashed in THEIR stock for a fortune. Short story -- Romney allegedly lied to help his friend and screw the friend's wife over.
Let me start this off by saying my thoughts on this story will literally be as non-partisan as humanly possible. In the interest of full disclosure, I dislike both major candidates running for president. The thought that someone would base their vote for the leader of the free world on a silly story like this is sickening.
Lets ignore that the subject of this story is running for president. Instead lets pretend for a second that the man who allegedly lied under oath about the value of a company was not Mitt Romney and was just some other suit wearing douche bag. This guy gets on the stand and gives his opinion on the company. Its pretty tough to prove whether he's lying or not as it is his OPINION on the future of the company. Even if he was lying, why does this woman deserve any of Staples' shares? Was she the one that started the business? Was she the person that put money into the venture capitalist group? Was she even the person that brought the investment opportunity to the group and/or encourage investment in Staples?
My left testicle has just as much to do with the success of Staples as this woman does, but because of social norms in this country she is entitled to half of her husbands wealth? The only thing she did that my testicle didn't was make her husband grilled-cheese sandwiches ever day when he got home from work. The suit wearing douche bag didn't screw anybody over, he simply helped a friend get what was rightfully his, and for that he should be commended.
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