Former Governor Mitt Romney has parted ways with controversial fundraiser Robert Lichfield, Romney’s Utah finance chair, according to an exclusive report from radaronline. This comes on the heals of the departure of Romney’s national finance co-chair, Alan B. Fabian, who was indicted in 32 million dollar fraud scheme.
Radaronline has the report:
Mitt Romney has asked his Utah finance committee co-chair, Robert Lichfield, who is affiliated with a controversial network of schools for troubled teens and has been dogged by allegations of abuse and fraud, to step down, Radar has learned.
Ken Kay, the president of the Worldwide Association of Specialty Programs (WWASP), a nonprofit group co-founded by Lichfield that provides consulting services to schools specializing in “behavior modification” for wayward teens, said in an e-mail that Romney has asked Lichfield to stop participating in fundraising activities for the campaign.
Lichfield was named in a June 2007 complaint filed in federal court in Utah by the families of 133 children who have attended schools associated with WWASP, alleging that they were subjected to physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. One plaintiff, Chase Wood, claims he was fondled, forced to eat his own vomit, and locked in a dog cage at the Cross Creek Center for Boys, a school that Lichfield founded in the late 1970s.
Lichfield was only one example of Romney’s poor personal judgment (and/or political amorality). But will we hear about any of this on the evening news?
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