Posted on 11/01/2011 6:57:34 PM PDT by Steelfish
Cain Accuser Got a Year’s Salary in Severance Pay By JIM RUTENBERG, JEFF ZELENY and MIKE McINTIRE November 1, 2011
WASHINGTON — The National Restaurant Association gave $35,000 — a year’s salary — in severance pay to a female staff member in the late 1990s after an encounter with Herman Cain, its chief executive at the time, made her uncomfortable working there, three people with direct knowledge of the payment said on Tuesday.
The woman was one of two whose accusations of sexual harassment by Mr. Cain, now a Republican candidate for president, led to paid severance agreements during his 1996-99 tenure as the association’s chief. Disclosure of the cases has rocked Mr. Cain’s campaign just as he was surging in polls.
Further challenging Mr. Cain, a lawyer for the second woman called on the restaurant association to release her from a confidentiality agreement signed as part of her settlement, raising the prospect that she could publicly dispute Mr. Cain’s account of what happened. The lawyer said the confidentiality agreement had left her unable to respond to Mr. Cain’s dismissal of the complaints against him as a “witch hunt” or to his denials of any inappropriate behavior toward the women.
“He’s basically saying: ‘I never harassed anyone. These claims have no merit,’ ” said the lawyer, Joel P. Bennett of Washington, who represented the woman in her initial agreement. “And I’m sure my client would have a comeback to that.”
The precise nature of the encounters between Mr. Cain and the two women remained murky. He has said over the past two days that he joked with one of the women about her height, but he has not addressed what happened with the first woman — the one who received the $35,000 payment.....
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she accepted the agreemnet and money,
so now how can she speak out?
...and Bill Clinton raped, groped women by the handful and he’s lauded as some elder statesman.
Makes me want to puke.
Not a bad extortion take. Jesse Jackass would be envious.
Amen!
That's what they've got?
"Uncomfortable?"
This is going to end so badly for Myth.
He misunderestimated Herman.
A DNC payoff MUCH bigger than the settlement, maybe?
Somebody’s scared of Cain.
Hmmm....now *who* would resort to such sleazy, underhanded tricks?
The trouble with sexual harassment complaints are that they are a dime a dozen in today’s world. There are a lot of worthless employees out there who, when they realize that their days with a company are numbered, come up with a “discrimination” or “sexual harassment” complaint as a way of leaving with with little more walking around money. They are usually just given some money and told to go away.
Force the NRA to release her from the agreement. Even if she has to pay the money back, she will quickly hire an agent and sell her story for far more than the agreement was worth.
The story is not going to go away until all this dirty laundry is aired out anyway. Cain may as well get ahead of it and tell the NRA it is fine with him to let the women tell their stories. If there is nothing to these accusations, then it it's all just part of the vetting process and one that Cain will come through with flying colors. If there is something more here, it is going to destroy him campaign anyway. Either way, there is no way we are not going to find out the whole story one way or the other.
Yes. This.
She can end the agreement, return the 35K and rake in fees from the media and book writers in excess of 35k. So, why not?
She’s not going to pay a penny back. Don’t you see what is going on here? Anita Hill 2, 3, etc.
Your post made me very uncomfortabe.
Fortunately, I’m not greedy.
A thousand bucks and I’ll forget all about it.
;D
When does 60 minutes do a special with Mr and Mrs, Cain so she can stand by her man and help launch his presidential campaign?
Yep....the only sexual harassment complaints that are legitimate are the ones which the MSM lauds and ignores. Like the muslims and honor killings and polygamy and boy rape.....not a word from NOW.
Clinton raping and dropping his drawers and hiring government employees whom he is having sex with......he should be in prison. MUCH MUCH worse than anything Cain ever did.
and Zero-—ignored for his cocaine use and his homosexual flings with larry Sinclair, etc. All ignored.....hmmmmmmm Whom to believe?????????
Every Clinton accuser was treated like dirt, openly derided by Carville, etc., ignored by the press, mocked.
These women will be treated as heroines and victims, and Mr. Cain will be treated as a filthy liar.
That's the bottom line there. She settled for cheap back when he was an unheard of CEO. Now that he's a presidential candidate her story is worth a whole lot more. The story hasn't changed, just the monetary value of it.
They just want to try Cain in the court of public opinion!!!
Herman, stop talking about this crap!!!
she accepted the agreemnet and money,
so now how can she speak out?
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From a cue card.........given to her by the GOP Establishment or Obama’s campaign.
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