Wednesday, June 20, 2007
The Hill reports today
on a little secret I've been tracking down among Mitt Romney's
fundraising minions: Robert Lichfield, a co-chair of Romney's Utah
finance team, is at the center of a scandal involving the World Wide
Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS). WWASPS operates
or funds a bunch of "tough love" academies that have been accused of
all manner of nastiness -- a Google search will get you to the
anti-WWASPS sites.
Lichfield is a key player and is named in the lawsuits, but The Hill
doesn't mention that he's far from the only Romney maximum-contributor
linked to the WWASPS scandal. There's J. Ralph Atkin, partner with
WWASPS' Teen Help; Richard Darrington of Darrington Academy; Brent
Facer, Lichfield's partner and WWASPS trustee; L. Karr Farnsworth of
Cross Creek Manor and former WWASPS President; Jason Finlinson of
Academy at Ivy Ridge; Dace Goulding of Orion Behavioral and Darrington
Academy; Robert's brother Narvin Lichfield of Carolina Springs Academy;
and Robert's brother-in-law Don Peart of Majestic Ranch.
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