Buzzfeed Politics digs up more shady behavior surrounding Romney's Bain years:
As for Romney, he had formally left [Bain & Company] about a year before the move, with Bain’s personal blessing, to start a sister company, Bain Capital. That meant he wasn’t involved in creating the [disastrous Employee Stock Ownership Plan], and didn’t personally profit from it; if he shared private opinions on the scheme at the time, they have not been revealed. (A Romney spokeswoman, Andrea Saul, declined to comment on the episode.) But Romney’s career did depend, if indirectly, on the ESOP deal.
The Dish 