A Tennessee man was charged Wednesday in an alleged extortion scheme involving former GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s income tax returns during the 2012 presidential campaign. Michael Mancil Brown, 34, was charged with six counts of wire fraud and six counts of extortion, according to a federal grand jury indictment in Nashville. Brown is accused of sending an anonymous letter to an accounting firm in Franklin, Tenn., last August, demanding $1 million in digital currency Bitcoin in exchange for the supposed tax returns. The alleged scheme had come in the final months of a fierce presidential campaign and amid calls for Romney to release his tax returns.
