february 1999, when he says he left and retired to go work on the olympics. so these are issues that are going to have to be resolved. they can be resolved by looking at the tax returns in part, and by going to some of these other deals, and it just doesn t again, it s very fishy. go ahead, darrkaren, quickly. as david points out, it s not just the tax returns, but the nature of his awareness in what these companies were doing and what their interactions were in addition to the tax implications. and was he making tens of millions of dollars off this? did he know what was happening? we ve got to break it there. david, before you go to bet to find, can you find out how much stericycle is making from romney care in massachusetts? surely she have contracts in massachusetts that are basically funded by romney care. stay up a little later tonight, david. thank you both very much for joining me tonight. thank you. coming up, how supreme court really did rewrite the
that mitt romney signed a $75 million investment in a company call eed stericycle, which disposes of medical waste, including fetuses from abortion. that would make mitt romney an abortion profiteer in the eyes of abortion opponents. romney successful evaded questions about this the during the presidential campaign, because he claimed to have retired from bain capital after bain made the investment in stericycle. but nine months after romney supposedly retired from bain capital, he was listed as both an active participant in the investment in stericycle and had, quote, share voting and dispositive power over the investment. joining me now, the man who wrote today s investigative piece for mother jones, david corn, also an msnbc political analyst and also karen finney, former dnc communications director and msnbc political
both around stericycle, specifically, and around mitt romney s relationship to bain and to a number of deals after the period of which he is claiming that he no longer had an association with the company. i want to read a posting on an anti-abortion website about just how much they hate this company, stericycle. they say stericycle and other corporations like it must be stopped from furthering the abortion holocaust in our nation and around the world. the campaign to stop stericycle is committed to aggressively pursuing stericycle, along with its officers, service providers, and investors that would be mitt romney until they end their collaboration with the abortion industry. join us in the fight against this goliath. david, i ve lost track of when mitt romney was in favor of abortion and when he became against it. when he invested in stericycle had he become an abortion opponent yet? not yet, at least not
detailed look at romney tax returns, that would show up exactly where he got his income, over the relevant years, and how much of his income was from stericycle. that s exactly right. and as david points out in his reporting, in addition to those questions, there are new questions that seem to be raised in the responses that the romney from the romney campaign to david s piece, that raise questions about how what did he know and when did he know it? which are always the classic questions that get people in trouble. and, again, you know, this plays into a couple of narratives that are deadly for mitt romney. number one, that he will say or do anything to get elected. number two, what is he hiding in the tax records and why won t he come clean and honest and forthcoming? but number three, in the context of this campaign, lawrence, as we ve talking about on your show, we got a you know, reporters who are covering mitt romney have got to press these questions. these are very import