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Gloria Allred Tries to Upend Mitt Romney, Seeking Allegedly Ugly Sealed Testimony From Staples Divorce Case 20 Years Ago

Categories: Election 2012

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Can Gloria Allred swing another election with dirt against the GOP?

Update:The judge weighs in on the Allred-Romney-Stemberg hearing. See at bottom.

Will the greatest October-surprise schemer in California history, attorney Gloria Allred, who trotted out Meg Whitman's housekeeper Nicky Diaz (actually in late September) before the 2010 election and instantly sank Whitman in the polls, all but handing Jerry Brown the governorship -- do it again?

Allred has jumped into the Obama versus Romney presidential election, appearing in court with Maureen Stemberg Sullivan, first wife to Tom Stemberg, the founder of fantastically successful Staples. Stemberg got his seed money from Mitt Romney's Bain Capital. Romney testified in the hideously bitter divorce two decades ago of Maureen and Tom. Super Glo has tapped into her incredible media hotline to, according to Radaronline, imply that Romney lied or otherwise ruined his chances to be president. She wants those sealed transcripts! Juicy!

The only problem is, Romney's people are saying that once they finish reading the long- sealed testimony (such sealing by the court is common in divorces among the rich), they probably will not object to the release of Romney's comments.

What?

Could Super Glo be delivering an October Clunker instead of an October Surprise?

The drama is unfolding far from Allred's home base in Los Angeles, in Canton, Mass. There, a probate judge will hold another hearing today on whether to unseal the 20-year-old testimony.

The key driver behind the request to unseal the documents is the Boston Globe. A Globe attorney, Jonathan Albano, yesterday told Judge Jennifer Ulwick that the public has a right to hear Romney's expert testimony from the early 1990s.

The always contentious and highly effective Allred says Romney was not an "expert" and implies that Romney was just being a duplicitous wing man for his still-close buddy Tom Stemberg.

Somehow, Super Glo came up with two booklets of the supposedly secret testimony.

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Jennifer
Jennifer

October surprise? She's a lesbian?

skookumjohn
skookumjohn like.author.displayName 1 Like

I am baffled by the allegations.  She says Romney lowballed the value of Staples shares before it went public.  If that were the case, she would have received MORE shares in the divorce settlement.  She's just sore because she pissed it all away, and has been on a 20 year legal jihad to dig more money out of her ex.  

abramsrl
abramsrl

 @skookumjohn It can be more complicated than that -- Everything is not necessarily split down the middle - one share of stock for hubby and one share of stock for wifey.  Connecticut is not even a community property state and there may have been pre-nups.  So who knows.  Low balling the stock may have been to hubbys' benefit; he then had to give her something else of equal value -- but if the stock had been low balled a few million, hubby would save a few million.

 

On the other hand, Allred could simply be wrong!

 

Guerro
Guerro like.author.displayName 1 Like

Please give the Taliban her address.  In the meantime I wish painful ovarian cysts upon her.

sam_a_vito
sam_a_vito

Wow!  This is huge.  Let's put this one right next to "Who cares" and "Too little too late you attention seeking freak".

LaKeishaJackson
LaKeishaJackson like.author.displayName 1 Like

So Gloria Allred's big revelation turns out to be about as much of a "bombshell" as Donald Trump's.  What a sad pair of attention whores....

mdterp
mdterp like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 2 Like

I want to dig up some dirt on this slime ball. She is disgusting.

docfjs
docfjs like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 2 Like

Why have we never heard details about Obama's shady real estate deal in Chicago?  

The Democratic smear machine is desperate and the liberal media/Boston Globe is their lap dog.

I think the general public is tired of this BS and has been much more skeptical since the con job they tried to put over about Bush concerning his military service.   Romney is looking more like Reagan every day.

abramsrl
abramsrl like.author.displayName 1 Like

 @docfjs Put your glasses on.  Romney is the anti-Reagan.  Right or wrong, Reagan stood his ground.   Right or wrong Romney changes his ground daily.

docfjs
docfjs like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 3 Like

This "woman" gives shysters a bad name.  

vdand
vdand like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 2 Like

Let's see.....We can't see any of Barack Obama's personal information regarding

his passport, college transcripts, records, etc because they don't mean anything, but we need a transcript from a divorce that occured 20 years ago.  This is truly grasping at straws. These people are truly desperate.  We aren't being given the information that was covered up by a sitting president where 4 lives were lost....and we are printing this garbage. Journalism is dead!!!!!

abramsrl
abramsrl like.author.displayName 1 Like

 @vdand Yes, journalism died the day Fox News was born,.

harrymurkin
harrymurkin like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 3 Like

Her October surprise is that she actually has a penis.

dp67101
dp67101 like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 3 Like

She's no better than an "ambulance chaser". Ask yourself this, wouldn't a decent person who really cared about their country try to use their notoriety to bring their country together?? Use her powers for good rather than being destructive? She cares about someones testimony in a divorce hearing, but is okay with all the "secrets" revolving around our president . A president should be an "open book" when it comes to the country he's representing (I don't care who he is).  Okay "anyVegey" a birth certificate has been released, but how do you get "racist" out of p_pettie statement and then to call that person stupid. There's no racism here and by you going off and cursing over simply someones opinion (we're all entitled to one last I heard) makes you sound....well...stupid.

john_perekovic2000
john_perekovic2000 like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 3 Like

she is not of the human race,,,she would kill her own mother for money

p_pettie
p_pettie like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 2 Like

This woman is a scum bag and was paid by obamafia's team try to destroy Mr. Romney.  Mr. Romney should agree only if obamafia agrees to release his real Birth Certificate and his colleges records..

abramsrl
abramsrl

 @p_pettie Anyone who wants Romney to win should stop this Birther insanity.  It just makes Dems go out and vote.  Birthers are dumber than Sh*t and I mean that in the nicest sort of way.

harrymurkin
harrymurkin

 @p_pettie Really ? How much bath salts have you taken today ?

You conspiracy theory believing nitwit ! 

p_pettie
p_pettie

 @harrymurkin My grandfather told me that I should not wrestling with pigs because I will get dirty and pig like it.  So, I'll let you go back to your sty.  Do not argue with me again, my grandfather also told me that don't argue with an idiot because people look at you might unable to tell the different.  I did not say anything about you, I just give my comment about gloria allred..what's your mental problem?

harrymurkin
harrymurkin

 @p_pettie Your grandfather obviously didn't teach you how to spell or how to form a sentence.

anyVegey
anyVegey like.author.displayName 1 Like

 @p_pettie he has already released his birth certificate. People like you are just too stupid and racist to give a shit.

p_pettie
p_pettie

anyVegey: What else the stupid like you can say..racist, n...is racist,...bl..ck stupid is the fact ...racist.  Unfortunately people like you had a right to vote, and re-produced..ugh.  Too bad that your mother did not abort you...however, I heard she said:  "Oh Vegey, from what I remembered that night when you were conceived,  you should be glad that you did not bark!

p_pettie
p_pettie

You are full of shit, give it to your own mother, she should abort you.  However, she probably think you are lucky that you don't bark.

john_perekovic2000
john_perekovic2000

 @anyVegey  @p_pettie

 wrong....certificate of live birth is not the same as a birth certificate,,you are the stupid one

p_pettie
p_pettie

John: I am sorry, I did not reply to you, I replied to anyVegey or anyShit-tey.

shirleyhorstelliott5
shirleyhorstelliott5

If she digs long enough and hard enough, she will surely find Mr. Romney vouching for a friend.  We can only hope he was right in doing so.

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