The Obama campaign has been harping all morning on a Boston Globe report this morning that Mitt Romney appeared on SEC documents as the CEO of Bain Capital as late as 2002 even though he has repeatedly stated that he had no formal role with the company after 1999.

In a conference call with reporters this afternoon, members of the Obama campaign suggested that if Mr. Romney was falsely listed as the CEO of Bain when he was not, it could bee a felony; otherwise, they suggested that he has been lying to the American people about when he left the company throughout his political career.

“These kinds of statements are not lightly made and it is hard to imagine that Mitt Romney, a lawyer…was prepared to delegate to some level of sloppiness the filings he made with the Securities and Exchange Commission,” said Bob Bauer, the general counsel of Obama for America. “If in fact as he now claims that he in fact not active with the company, he was not the controlling person that is described here, that means that these statements are false and as I said there are very very serious legal consequences that would follow.” Read More