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Romney Forced to Fire 2nd Crucial
Campaign Backer
September 6, 2007
By BHDC Staff
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Romney / Lichfield news ...
 Big
scoop coming from Radar: Mitt Romney, just days after ousting
disgraced Sen. Larry Craig from his Presidential campaign, has had
to fire another well-connected state campaign organizer due to
tawdry dealings — this time involving abuse and fraud toward
troubled teens.
“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,” according
to Radar’s report.
Lichfield is Utah’s largest
political donor, and organized a fundraiser in February in his
hometown of St. George that made nearly $300,000 for the Romney
campaign. Members of the Lichfield family have donated $17,000 to
Romney thus far.
But besides being rich, Lichfield
was also named in a June 2007 complaint filed in federal court in
Utah by the families of 133 children who allege kids under his
supervision ”were subjected to physical, sexual, and emotional
abuse.”
Radar notes that 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.”
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