FACT CHECK: Romney-Bain contacts outlasted exit

July 25, 2012 02:53 am

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Mitt Romney · Associated Press: US News · Go!

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said he had no active role in Bain Capital, the private equity firm he founded, after he exited in February 1999 to take over Salt Lake City's Winter Olympics bid. But according to Bain associates and others familiar with Romney's actions at the time, he stayed in regular contact with his partners over the following months, tending to his partnership interests and negotiating his separation from the company....