Convicted Tax Cheat Attended Romney 47 Percent Fundraiser

Convicted Tax Cheat Attended Romney 47 Percent Fundraiser
The candidate lambasted Americans who don't pay income taxes…in front of an audience that included one businessman who'd gone to jail for evading them.

When Mitt Romney assailed Americans who he claimed don't pay federal income taxes during his infamous 47 percent rant in May, one of the guests in the room for this intimate Boca Raton fundraiser was a convicted tax cheat who had gone to jail for failing to pay a quarter of a million dollars owed to Uncle Sam.

James Batmasian, an influential Florida developer and philanthropist, was among the well-heeled crowd at this $50,000-a-plate dinner, which was held at the home of private equity mogul Marc Leder. According to his wife, Marta Batmasian, a member of Romney's Florida finance committee, her husband had attended as her guest after she was "invited for being a donor at the required level." Weeks before the event, she had contributed $50,000 to the Romney presidential effort.

In 2008, James Batmasian pled guilty to a felony tax evasion charge for failing to pay more than $250,000 in federal taxes for employees at his company, Investments Limited. He was sentenced to eight months at a South Carolina federal prison and a subsequent two years of supervised release. Along with serving prison time, he had to pay the outstanding taxes and was also fined an additional $30,000. At the time, he was the largest property owner in downtown Boca Raton. Following his conviction, Batmasian, an attorney, was suspended from practicing law by the Florida Supreme Court.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201 ... ax-evasion

Now wait a minute... Let me see if I've got this straight... Here is a guys who cheated and was convicted for FAILING TO PAY MORE THAN $250,000 in FEDERAL TAXES... Sentenced to 8 MONTHS IN JAIL + TWO YEARS PROBATION, + PAYING THE BACK TAXES + $30,000 FINE.... And he's sitting there listening to Gov Etch-a-Sketch railing about the "47% of the population that are 'victims' and AREN'T PAY FEDERAL INCOME TAX"....(And he and his wife EACH PAID $50,000/plate to sit there)?!?!?!

Have I got that right?

You CAN NOT make this sh*t up.... rofllol rofllol

Just read my sig.

OMIGOD!!!! The election is going to turn on this!!!! Remember in 2008 when Obama lost the election because he cut a sweetheart land deal with a convicted felon for his Chicago home?

Can I get back my ballot and change my vote to Dr. Jill Stein since she is un-tainted like Romney, Obama, and Roseanne Barr?