Now there's a debate over when the GOP presidential candidate left his private equity firmand what it means.
The Romney campaign and Bain insist that Romney had not a thing to do with Bain after February 1999, though he signed filings and pocketed millions. But they won't answer specific questions about Romney and Bain during this periodjust as Romney won't come clean on his tax returns. (See this Vanity Fair blockbuster report on Romney's personal finances and what is still unknown about them.) He remains the opaque quarter-billionairewith mystery surrounding his wealth and the business career he touts as a steppingstone to the presidency. He has yet to be fully vetted.
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