{"id":979,"date":"2012-09-07T00:22:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T04:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/?p=979"},"modified":"2012-09-07T00:22:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T04:22:42","slug":"fishington-cheesington-obtains-romneys-turbotax-files-from-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/07\/fishington-cheesington-obtains-romneys-turbotax-files-from-hacker\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishington Cheesington Obtains Romney&#8217;s TurboTax Files From Hacker!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_980\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/turbotax_home_and_business.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-980\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/turbotax_home_and_business-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"TurboTax Home &amp; Business Software Box\" title=\"TurboTax Home &amp; Business Software Box\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/turbotax_home_and_business-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/turbotax_home_and_business-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/turbotax_home_and_business.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surprising that someone with untold wealth would use an off-the-shelf tax preparation software rather than an accountant. But he is a fiscal conservative&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_570\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/anonMonitorCraig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-570\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/anonMonitorCraig-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Computer monitor with &quot;Anonymous&quot; logo\" title=\"anonMonitorCraig\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/anonMonitorCraig-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/anonMonitorCraig.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anonymous AKA Billy&#8217;s computer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(La Jolla, CA)  The Fishington Cheesington Post, with help from the Anonymous hacker group (AKA high school sophomore Billy Pemberton of Peekskill, NY), has obtained Mitt Romney&#8217;s 2010 TurboTax files stored on his computer&#8217;s hard drive.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Mr. Romney listed income from offshore bank accounts was not surprising.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/romneySchedB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/romneySchedB-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"Mitt Romney&#039;s Tax Schedule B\" title=\"Mitt Romney&#039;s Tax Schedule B\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/romneySchedB-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/romneySchedB.jpg 955w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But more surprising was that, despite income, interest and dividends of more than 24 Million dollars, he had an income tax refund of more than 2.9 Million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/romneyTaxSwissBank.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/romneyTaxSwissBank-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"Romney&#039;s TurboTax screen shows Swiss bank accounts\" title=\"Romney&#039;s TurboTax screen shows Swiss bank accounts\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/romneyTaxSwissBank-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/romneyTaxSwissBank.jpg 889w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How did he do it?  Well, it seems Mitt, like many Americans, has fudged his deductions quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, he has claimed a fictitious dependent named &#8220;Seamus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/romney1040Page01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/romney1040Page01-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"MItt Romney Form 1040 page 1\" title=\"MItt Romney Form 1040 page 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/romney1040Page01-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/romney1040Page01.jpg 952w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Mitt Romney did give more than $400,000 to the Mormon Church, he also listed a dubious deduction of 100 dog kennels to the Salvation Army.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_984\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/romneyTaxCharity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-984\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/romneyTaxCharity-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"Turbotax screenshot of Romney&#039;s charitable deductions:\" title=\"Turbotax screenshot of Romney&#039;s charitable deductions:\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/romneyTaxCharity-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/romneyTaxCharity.jpg 885w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">That&#8217;s a lot of dog kennels for a long dead dog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Billy at this point is asking the Romney campaign to send the sum of $4,000 to his Paypal account or he will release the rest of the tax returns.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But you know what?  I&#8217;m throwing a house party next Saturday night while [next-door neighbor Jim] Holmertz&#8217;s parents are away, so if he&#8217;d buy for us we could work something out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(La Jolla, CA) The Fishington Cheesington Post, with help from the Anonymous hacker group (AKA high school sophomore Billy Pemberton of Peekskill, NY), has obtained Mitt Romney&#8217;s 2010 TurboTax files stored on his computer&#8217;s hard drive. The fact that Mr. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/07\/fishington-cheesington-obtains-romneys-turbotax-files-from-hacker\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,135],"tags":[316,331,88,350,344],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-comedy","category-troutboysblog","tag-anonymous","tag-presidential-election","tag-romney","tag-tax-havens","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}