Mitt Romney

Tax Questions Tripped Up Romney's Run For Governor

Nick R. Martin | January 24, 2012, 2:16PM

It may be a touch of deja vu that Mitt Romney's campaign is being weighed down by questions about his taxes. A similar issue tripped him up during his 2002 run for governor of Massachusetts.

Romney was the Republican gubernatorial frontrunner that year when state elections officials investigated the fact that he received a major tax break on his $3.8 million mansion in Park City, Utah.

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Topics: 2012 elections, GOP, Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, Property Taxes, Republicans, Taxes, Utah

Amy Bishop

Alabama Professor Charged With Murder In Disputed 1986 Shooting

Justin Elliott | June 16, 2010, 6:03PM

Amy Bishop, the Alabama biology professor who allegedly shot three colleagues to death in February, was indicted today in Massachusetts for the murder of her brother at their Braintree, Massachusetts, home in 1986.

As TPMmuckraker has reported, the shooting of Bishop's brother Seth was presented as an accident at the time. She was not charged. But after the alleged Alabama shootings this year, media reports indicated the investigation of the 1986 incident was rife with irregularities.

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Topics: Alabama, Amy Bishop, Massachusetts, Seth Bishop, William Keating