Posted on 07/30/2010 7:46:55 PM PDT by RDangerfield
This just in about the investigation of a woman’s sexual abuse allegations dealing with former Vice President Al Gore: . . .
“After evaluating the materials submitted by PPB I have concluded that I agree with the assessment that a sustainable criminal case does not exist,” Rees said in the memo released today.
Among other factors Rees cited in not prosecuting Gore based upon the allegations massage therapist Molly Hagerty made about Gore trying to force himself on her in a downtown Portland hotel suite on Aug. 24, 2006 was “other contradictory evidence, conflicting witness statements, credibility issues, lack of forensic evidence and denials by Mr. Gore.”
One of the case deficiencies, according to Rees, was that “Ms. Hagerty, who has red hair, states she called Mr. Gore immediately following the alleged incident and told him to ‘dream of redheaded women’ seemingly in contradiction to her assertions that she was terrified of Mr. Gore. Two days after the alleged incident Ms. Hagerty also sent an email to the Hotel Lucia stating that she appreciated the business referrals she received from the hotel. She did not mention any problem with Mr. Gore.’
1) Investigators say Hagerty failed to provide medical records, and other records that she promised to hand over.
2) Gore’s denial to local investigators of any wrongdoing at the Hotel Lucia in Portland includes his strong denial of newer sexual-misconduct allegations by massage therapists in Beverly Hills and Tokyo that were reported in the National Enquirer.
3) . . . Also, pants that Hagerty says she wore the night she went to give Gore a massage were tested by the Oregon State Police Crime Lab on July 12 and tested negative for seminal fluid.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wweek.com ...
Maybe SP can do a ManBearPig vs CrazedSexPoodle episode.
I bet Al’s second chakra is feeling relief now.
The Oregonian newspaper, which printed all of the masseuse’s charges, has now shared actual evidence discovered in the police investigation. It makes the woman’s case look even weaker and more concocted. You can read their story here:
*Prosecutors will not pursue criminal case against Gore in alleged sex abuse of massage therapist
Portland massage therapist Molly Hagerty called former Vice President Al Gore as she drove home from his hotel in October 2006, advising him to drink extra water and to “dream of red-headed women tonight,” according to a memo from the Multnomah County district attorney’s office.
Hagerty’s phone call seemed to contradict her assertions that she was terrified of Gore — who Hagerty claims had just groped her, kissed her, and made other unwanted sexual advances during the late-night massage — the memo said.
The contradictory behavior and a “lack of credible evidence” are among the reasons that prosecutors will not pursue a criminal case against Gore, the district attorney’s office said Friday.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/07/prosecutors_will_not_pursue_cr.html
Gore will never get rid of this stain. It’s not like he and “others like him” have never attempted to ruin somebody personally and politically. So, I gots no sympathy for him.
Half the country heard the accusation. Few will hear the exhoneration ans many will still believe it to be true.
Regardless, even the false accusation of “Crazed Sex Poodle” is now and forever a part of Algores biography.
Okay, I read the additional article in the Oregonian.
They say her phone call to Gore contradicts her claim she was terrified of him?
Actually, what she said was that she was terrified of him while they were in the hotel room alone.
Obviously, once she got out of the room she was no longer terrified that he would rape her. At that point, the question for her was whether to report the assault, or to pretend it never happened and get on with her massage business.
If she decided to pretend it never happened, and wanted to continue to get future business from the hotel, she wanted to make sure Gore was not going to complain to the hotel for her not releasing his “second chakra.”
Her problem is that it appears she decided to pretend it never happened, but then changed her mind. The strongest evidence on her side was that she contemporaneously told other people about it, and even called a rape hotline.
But I don’t blame the authorities for not going forward with the case. I mean what do you do with it? If I’m the local prosecuting attorney and I get handed this file, it’s a case that is almost impossible to win. If I charge him with a felony and need a unanimous verdict, that will be impossible if there are some democrats on the jury. Maybe I can get lucky with one honest democrat juror, but if there are at least a few democrat jurors, then no matter how strong my case is, I won’t be able to get a guilty verdict.
And even with an honest jury, it would be difficult to prove beyond a reasonable doubt with ONLY the he-said she-said testimony and her contemporaneous statements. There is no physical evidence and there is nothing in her statement that would lead one to think there would be any physical evidence relevant to the matter. Whether there is anything to the other allegations by the other massage therapists, and whether the other evidence is solid enough that the judge would allow me to introduce it to show a pattern of behavior, is a major open question.
And there is a lot for the defense to work with. They could make much of the fact that she was inconsistent in whether to report it or to pretend it never happened and make nice with Gore and the hotel. Her exaggeration of the pants evidence is another weak point, and whether she would have motives to fabricate the charge. And facing money-is-no-limit defense counsel, who knows what dirt they would find about my star witness, the flakey New Age massage therapist.
So even if everything she said in her statement to police about what happened in that hotel room did in fact happen exactly as she said, this case is as a practical matter nearly impossible to win.
Nailed it.
I haven’t followed this story all that closely (I don’t even know what the significance of “sex poodle” is!), but know that the Slimy One is imminently capable of everything he’s accused of doing.
Sooner or later I bet he’ll do a David Carradine...
So is is the globe warming up again? Just wait a few weeks and im sure we will hear from AG
I still believe her. I don’t doubt Gore would behave just as she described. Whether what he did rises to the level of a sexual assault, I don’t know. But I believe he is a disgusting pig. How many women accused Clinton of sexual assault? How many was he charged for assaulting? Money and power go a long way in our criminal justice system.
typical political lawyer ploy, have one discredited, so to make it difficult for the other accusers to file.
They always do this, its so as to put the accused as the victim and make them untouchable.
You would think that after the Duke Lacrosse fake rape case that more people here would have learned to reserve judgement.
Nope, I was never convinced anything would stick to this allegation anyway...
I’ve read all the thread so far, and am surprised at the lack of commentary from a lot of people in FR that I would have thought had figured this thing out like I did from the beginning...
There was never going to be anything come from this even if there woulf have been a little physical evidence of a crime...
And where really is the crime???
A former high ranking political official calls for a massage in his hotel room at a very late hour??? And then allegations like this surface after a longer than usual timeframe, from the woman who actually accepted the call to service this individual???
Where was his security detail???
I have not seen pictures of this woman, or how she advertises her “services”, but that, in and of itself could set her up for additional scrutiny if she pushes the envelope flap back a little too far in how she presents herself publically...
There are just too many things wrong with this, and I am not defending anyone, her, or Al Gore on this at all...
Portland (a few miles north of where I live) is a highly liberal city and at no time was there any chance of a indiction of Gore. If Gore had been a Republican he would have been sitting in a Portland jail cell right now regardless of the evidence.
Yes. She blew it with the false pants stain, etc.
However, if Gore did HALF of what she says happened to her, I'd be so stunned and intimidated, I'd probably do stupid things, too. She's been groped by the Vice President. How are you going to make any sense of that and obtain any justice for yourself?
They broke the John Edwards love child story.
“..We were all duped. As it turns out, the woman lied about just about everything....”
Wait a minute though...didn’t Algores good buddy. Teddy The Swimmer say something like...
“it’s the seriousness of the Charge”...
I think we should hold them to EXACTLY the same standards. Wouldn’tcha agree???
/sarc
Well we looked in to it and found out that Al Gore is a big, rich, important member of the American Left.
He can’t be bothered with your little laws, so he won’t be.
Have a nice day. :)
I have no idea why you wrote any of that. The masseuse admitted to police that she called him up afterwards and told him to dream of her.
She failed the polygraph that her own attorney ordered for her.
And lied about semen on the pants she held up on the cover of the National Enquirer.
So, how do you sum up all that by claiming:
“Well we looked in to it and found out that Al Gore is a big, rich, important member of the American Left. He can’t be bothered with your little laws, so he won’t be.”
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