I also have never accused Mr. Romney of being a felon.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/08/20/remarks-president-white-house-press-corps
THE PRESIDENT: Well, first of all, I'm not sure all those characterizations that you laid out there were accurate. For example, nobody accused Mr. Romney of being a felon.
You know this is going deep under Romney's skin.
I plan to repeat it as many times as possible before the election just as one of those wonderful little affirmations that Stuart Smalley used to do.
I can categorically state that Mr. Romney has never been convicted of a felony.
It just makes me feel all warm inside to have a President who can chew gum, walk and stick a little time bomb into Romney's psychic at the same time while he is just truthfully answering an innocent question.
Romney is going to find himself just standing there at the debate wondering what the hell just happened and why the hell he was screaming on national TV.
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The Board of directors is the legally responsible "brain" of a corporation, so any felony crimes committed by a corporation were actually committed by the directors and executives.
During Bain's hostile takeover of Damon Clinical Labs, RMoney stole millions in Medicare fraud, then unloaded the corporation whose new owners had to pay the CRIMINAL FINES caused under RMoney's watch.
http://mitt-romney-kills-jobs.blogspot.com/2011/06/mitt-romney-medicare-fraud.html
Mitt Romney's 'Jobs Record' Is A Sham
June 02, 2011 9:02 am ET
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
ROMNEY PROFITED ON FIRM LATER TIED TO FRAUD DAMON CORP. FINED AFTER SALE BY BAIN
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-7745902.html
Publication:
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
Publish date:
October 10, 2002
New York Times Articles
Corning Will Plead Guilty to Medicare Fraud
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/10/us/corning-will-plead-guilty-to-medicare-fraud.html
By MILT FREUDENHEIM
Published: October 10, 1996
In the one of the biggest Medicare fraud settlements involving a clinical laboratory company, Corning Inc. agreed yesterday in Boston to plead guilty to Federal fraud charges and pay $119 million in criminal fines and civil penalties.
The Government said the settlement covered ''literally millions of fraudulent claims'' at Damon Clinical Laboratories Inc., which Corning acquired in 1993. Corning said the claims involved marketing and billing practices at the laboratories before Corning acquired them.
Like a number of other laboratory companies, Damon admitted to billing Federal Government agencies for blood tests that were not considered medically necessary but were performed along with legitimate tests requested by physicians. The United States Attorney's office in Boston said Damon, formerly based in Needham, Mass., had agreed to plead guilty to charges of conspiring to defraud the Federal Health Care Financing Administration. Damon agreed to pay a criminal fine of $35.3 million and to pay back $83.7 million to Federal health programs.
Corning subsidiary pays $119 million and is barred from the Medicare program to settle fraud cases
Oct. 9, 1996 -- Damon Clinical Laboratories Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Corning Inc., has agreed to pay $119 million in criminal and civil fines to settle a case involving two whistleblower lawsuits and criminal charges. The whistleblowers and the government charged that the company had submitted false claims to Medicare and other federal insurance programs for laboratory tests that were not ordered and were not medically necessary.
Damon agreed to pay a criminal fine of $35.3 million and to pay the government $83.7 million to settle the whistleblower lawsuits.
Top 100 Corporate Criminals of the 1990s
http://motherjones.com/politics/1999/09/top-100-corporate-criminals-1990s
13) Damon Clinical Laboratories, Inc.
Type of Crime: Fraud
Criminal Fine: $35.2 million