Fact Check: Story about Mitt Romney and missing child is true
Posted: April 29, 2012 - 1:03am | Updated: April 30, 2012 - 7:43am
By Carole Fader
Times-Union readers want to know:
Is it true that Mitt Romney closed down his firm, Bain Capital, and flew 30 workers to New York to look for the missing daughter of one of his colleagues?
The fact-finding groups PolitiFact.com, Snopes.com and Truthorfiction.com all rate this as true, and media reports of the day confirm much of the details of the viral email.
Although the message has been filling mailboxes, brought to light again now because of Romney's candidacy, the story has been circulating since he campaigned for the presidency in 2007. It came up then because of a television ad that showed the colleague, Robert Gay, crediting Romney with helping reunite him with his daughter, according to PolitiFact.com, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-finding project of the Tampa Bay Times.
Read more at Jacksonville.com:
http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2012-04-29/story/fact-check-story-about-mitt-romney-and-missing-child-true#ixzz29sjMPO26Old story being recycled.
