Posted on 10/01/2010 12:13:15 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Gloria Allred may be doing Meg Whitman a favor with her ridiculous stunt accusing Meg Whitman of knowingly employing an illegal alien housekeeper. The story is so full of holes that it is transparently bogus, and will serve to discredit not just Allred and the housekeeper, but possibly Jerry Brown, California's Attorney General.
Hugh Hewitt, law professor, writer, and talk show host, had Gloria Allred on his radio program yesterday, and probed some of the major weaknesses in the case, and wrote about it on Townhall. First, he sums up the charges:
Turns out that Whitman had hired a housekeeper a few years back, after being provided all the necessary documents. Whitman was very serious about complying with the law as any CEO of a major public company ought to be, if only to protect the thousands and thousands of shareholders who cannot afford to have corporate leadership turn out to be law breakers.
Whitman was defrauded. The housekeeper lied. Many years later the housekeeper admitted her lies to Whitman, and Whitman dismissed her.
First the law. Don't believe me. Believe Erwin Chemerinsky, the very liberal dean of the University of California at Irvine Law School. After Allred's press conference I had Erwin on my radio program to state the law, which he did very quickly: Whitman had to fire the housekeeper or break the law.
Then he presents his interview:
She last attacked a Republican candidate for governor when he was leading the polls shortly before a vote when she launched a broadside against Arnold in August of 2003. Her client, Rhonda Miller, alleged sexual harassment. Miller's suit was dismissed.
I began my interview with Allred by asking her how that case turned out. Allred objected to the line of questioning.
I played Erwin's answer to my straightforward question and asked Allred if Erwin had stated the law correctly.. Allred objected to the line of questioning.
I asked Allred if she could state the law. She objected to this line of questioning.
Allred hung up on me when it became obvious that I simply wasn't going to allow her to repeat her allegations without establishing first a theory of the law under which Whitman could be understood to have done anything wrong.
In sum: the only parties to have done anything wrong were the housekeeper, who used false documents to deceive Whitman, the victim, and the employment agency Whitman used to hire a qualified worker. By the way, Whitman paid this housekeeper $23 an hour -- a wage rate at which one could certainly hire a qualified legal worker. The normal reason employers hire illegals is to pay lower wages than a legal worker could command.
Whitman did what the law required of her when she learned of the fraud perpetrated against her. She fired the maid. Allred's press conference featured the maid crying, as if she had been somehow abused.
Jerry Brown, as California AG, now has knowledge of a fraud perpetrated against a Californian. It is his responsibility to prosecute the law breakers - the maid and employment agency. If anything, the case reveals that he has failed to protect Californians attempting to obey the law from fraudsters.
There is more than a month remaining until the election. That is ample time to turn this spectacle back against those who have perpetrated it. Allred is a longtime Brown supporter and donor. Her unwillingness to answer the questions posed by Hugh Hewitt speaks volumes.
This sort of scam could work if timed a few days before the election. So why did Allred launch it prematurely? Probably because the night before her press conference, Whitman cleaned Brown's clock in his debate with Whitman, and it was necessary to change the subject.
Meg Whitman has the brains and savvy to turn this stunt around. And the money necessary to get her story out.
The first picture with the tissue is better of the two with Allred leaning over to comfort her. You can imagine them practicing it with a director and script-writer in private (as all trial lawyers do with their clients) and getting those special prescription eye-drops that make you tear. Or maybe Bill Clinton gave them some tips on that, he could tear on cue within seconds.
And if this is true, then it is further evidence that the Whitmans did not know she was illegal. Because, if they did know she was illegal, there would be no point at all in telling the maid to check into the matter.
Heck, you don't need any special eye-drops to make you tear up. I made the mistake of wiping my eyes with a napkin that I had used to clean my fingers after eating several whole jalapenoes ...
... I thought that my eyes would NEVER stop watering ...
The picture with the tissue is better of the two with Allred leaning over to comfort her. You can imagine them practicing it with a director and script-writer in private (as all trial lawyers do with their clients) and getting those special prescription eye-drops that make you tear. Or maybe Bill Clinton gave them some tips on that, he could tear on cue within seconds.
But the ##smug, ##self-##satisfied look on Allred'$ fa$ce in thi$ one i$ pricele$$.
I discounted her eating peppers because of her background (she may be used to hot food) but didn't think of lacing the fingers with pepper. Better yet, lace the hankerchief so the more you wipe the more you cry.
I don't work with trial lawyers so this is new to me.
I guess she is a piece of chicken droppings.....
Meg could get couple million votes from this pic alone.
Tout Hollywood will vote for Meg. They all have latino help---and fear Allred will come after them next, ROTFL.
$23/hr is a very, very good wage in most parts of the country....I think LPNs start out about there....
Yes, she certainly does. However, never, ever, underestimate the power of stupid people voting in large numbers...
Yeah..
No that is faked outrage on Allred’s face, outrage over the abuse this poor undocumented woman had to withstand, a prisoner held hostage by a rich couple for $32 per hour. She only wanted to go back home (Mexico) but wasn't allowed to as a prisoner, then as a final outrage she was terminated for being illegal which forced her to go public with her story, that she wasn't fired soon enough by Whitman to be proper. Obviously Whitman should have defied the warnings in the SS mis-match letter that told her NOT to fire the illegal.
Allred's look in the picture reminds me of Hillary, or Pelosi complaining about Bush.
Yes, now that you mention it...
Have a great day!
i have several family members would be happy to work for $23 an hour and would start yesterday.
This illegal fat pig suffered in a prison on $50,000.00 a year, with free room and board. More like $70,000.00 per year.
I could cry......
What a couple of low life grifters.
Yes That so called Lawyer should lose her license.
RE Gloria Allred: Aww, she’s just doing what all good little Comrade Apparachniks do “for the cause”...
1. She’s a socialist parasite
2. She’s a Lawyer (redundant - see above)
3. She’s buddy-buddy with “Moonbeam Brown” - another socialist parasite
Why should we be surprised...
...after all...(ready, here it comes)...
Her name IS “All-RED”...(rimshot here)
(I crack myself up)....
That's $46,000 per year. That is the national average.
Aww...look...Tears...a sympathetic hug...
My wittle heart is bwaking...
What a crock of sh*t these people are.
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