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International software giant Oracle Corp. has debunked U.S. House candidate Rob Quist’s claim that 22 tax liens were filled against his Republican opponent and Bozeman-based RightNow Technologies from 2012 to 2015.

Quist and the Montana Democratic Party have for two months made the claim, now featured in Quist’s radio and television ads, that Republican House candidate “Greg Gianforte and his business had 22 tax liens.”

RightNow had sold to Oracle before the tax issue arose. Oracle told The Gazette that Gianforte was out of the picture when the “liens” related to employees withholding taxes in Indiana cropped up. The liens were actually warrants issued by Marion County, Indiana.

“Greg had left the company by then,” said Deborah Hellinger, of Oracle.

Quist, Gianforte and Libertarian Mark Wicks are competing to fill Montana's only U.S. House seat in a special election, which ends Thursday, May 25.

In the ad, Quist addresses his own tax and debt problems, looking into the camera and saying, “Greg Gianforte is attacking me on tax liens and debt when he knows I paid my debts and my taxes, every dime. Gianforte and his business had 22 tax liens, I have had three.”