Psych! Made ya look!
Okay, so I didn't.
But I did find something nearly as good: The Tyler Charitable Foundation's 990 Tax Forms, which you can find at The Foundation Center's 990 Finder. I had a hunch that there might be a smoking gun, and I found one. Well, more than one, actually.
More below the squiggle.
A Tale of Two Companies
Part One: ChipPAC
If you'll recall, I wrote a diary entitled "If Romney Wasn't at Bain from 1999 to 2002, He Forgot to Tell ChipPAC". ChipPAC is a problem because it outsourced jobs, and it flagrantly boasted about doing it at the time Bain Capital invested in the company. Moreover, as I demonstrated in that diary, W. Mitt Romney's signature was on those SEC filings.
It turns out that, in 1999, the Tyler Charitable Foundation, formerly known as the Ann D. and W. Mitt Romney Foundation, also invested in ChipPAC. As can be found on page 28 of the 45 page filing, the Foundation divested several times in 2003:
CHIPPAC INC Aug 05 99 Sep 25 03 1,454.00 8,825.36 43.27 0.00 8,782.09 LT
CHIPPAC INC Aug 05 99 Oct 08 03 1,751.00 11,030.77 52.11 0.00 10,978.66 LT
CHIPPAC INC Aug 05 99 Nov 25 03 2,203.00 16,340.86 642.39 0.00 15,698.47 LT
They made $8,782.09 in the first sale, $10,978.66 in the second sale, and $15,698.47 in the final sale, for a grand total of $35,459.22 in profit off of ChipPAC.
The following year, The Tyler Charitable Foundation made even more by selling ChipPAC stock on January 27, 2004 for a mere $96,934.50, as can be found on page 27 of 45:
CHIPPAC INC Aug 05 99 Jan 27 04 12,148.00 97,288.74 35424 0.00 96,934.50
In total, the Tyler Charitable Foundation, formerly the Ann D. and W. Mitt Romney Foundation, made $132,393.72 off of ChipPAC's outsourcing of American jobs.
In what appears to be a complete coincidence, Bain Capital sold stock in ChipPAC on August 21, 2003 and August 28, 2003, approximately one month before the Tyler Charitable Foundation also began divesting from ChipPAC. And on November 3, 2003. And on November 24 and 25, 2003 (the latter being the same day the Tyler Foundation also sold ChipPAC stock). At that point, I stopped looking.
A complete coincidence, I'm sure.
The story, however, does not end here.
Part Two: Stericycle
Here's where things get fun. I also did a diary a couple weeks ago entitled "If Romney Wasn't at Bain from 1999 to 2002, He Forgot to Tell Stericycle". In that diary, I noted that W. Mitt Romney had signed the documents for Brookside Capital Partners Fund's acquisition of Stericycle stock on November 22, 1999.
Mind that date, it will be important.
Stericycle is a problematic investment for W. Mitt Romney, because, as John King noted in his article article entitled "John King: Why is 1999 so important in 2012?",
The investment in question: Stericycle, a medical waste company that, among other things, disposed of aborted fetuses.
How could the Stericycle investment be used against Romney?
Bain's involvement in a company that disposed of aborted fetuses could make a powerful final week direct mail piece or attack ad on Christian radio. (emphasis mine)
Would it surprise you that the Tyler Charitable Foundation, formerly the Ann D. and W. Mitt Romney Foundation,
also invested in Stericycle? If you scroll down to page 30 out of the 45 pages of this document, it's the very first line:
STERICYCLE INC Nov 12 99 Oct 27 04 921 .00 40,411.33 7,404.84 0.00 33,006.49 LT
On
November 12, 1999, ten days
before Brookside's investment, the Ann D. and W. Mitt Romney Foundation invested in Stericycle. They held it until October 27, 2004, then sold it for a profit of $33,006.49.
Brookside, it appears, sold their Stericycle stock on November 14, 2002, two years prior, raising the rather curious question as to why the Ann D. and W. Mitt Romney Foundation held onto it for another two years.
Before anyone points out that these investments are in a "blind trust", let me remind you what W. Mitt Romney himself said about blind trusts in 1994:
The blind trust is an age-old ruse.
If Bain and Romney's own charitable foundation invested in ChipPAC and Stericycle, what do you think the odds are that Romney himself was personally invested in these companies?