Secret Service probing theft of Romney tax records

By Stephen Braun

Associated Press

Published: Wednesday, Sept. 5 2012 3:25 p.m. MDT

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks with reporters after stopping at Lui-Lui Restaurant on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012 in West Lebanon, N.H.

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The Secret Service says it's investigating the reported theft of copies of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's federal tax records before 2010. A letter sent anonymously to Tennessee political and newspaper offices demanded $1 million to prevent their disclosure.

WASHINGTON — The Secret Service says it's investigating the reported theft of copies of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's federal tax records before 2010. A letter sent anonymously to Tennessee political and newspaper offices demanded $1 million to prevent their disclosure.

Romney's accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, said there is no evidence any Romney tax files were stolen. The letter said the returns were stolen in late August during a Watergate-style break-in at the company's accounting offices in Franklin, Tenn.

A Tennessee Republican official, Jean Barwick, confirmed she received the letter and an encrypted flash drive, and said she turned them over to the Secret Service. She was not able to confirm that copies of any tax returns were stored on the flash drive.

Secret Service spokesman Edwin Donovan confirmed the agency is investigating.

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Y Ask Y

Provo, UT

C'mon, Mitt! Just follow your Daddy's example and release your tax documents, then nobody will have to steal them!

9:13 a.m. Sept. 6, 2012
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Solutions not Stones

Spanish Fork, UT

LDS Liberal,

I am sure that you are fair minded enough to support an individual illegally releasing (if they have not been destroyed) records pertaining to President Obama's past, no matter how embarrassing they may be. I mean, you More..

9:18 p.m. Sept. 5, 2012
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LDS Liberal

Farmington, UT

Either a hoax,
or a Dream come true...

Matthew 10:26 "So do not be afraid of them. There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known.
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Luke 8:17 For there is nothing More..

4:51 p.m. Sept. 5, 2012
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