re: #397 Killgore Trout

Yes they have: Do Bain SEC documents suggest Mitt Romney is a criminal?

TPM is also hyping the story this morning but neither TPM or Huffpo, unlike the WaPo fact checker, link to the documents for reference. What Huffpo and TPM don’t tell us is the results of the investigation.

This article is about criminality, not responsibility

The SEC documents, especially the ones Romney signed, do raise some questions. One can certainly argue that because Romney did not fully extricate himself from Bain till after his Olympic sojourn ended, he should bear some responsibility for what happened in that period. But that is an entirely different matter than suggesting that he is a potential criminal. It is more of a PR problem, which the Obama campaign is trying to exploit to build a larger case that Romney is secretive.

We were tempted to award this claim Four Pinocchios, but the documents with his signature leave some room for inquiry.