The fact there was a financial ‘settlement’ involved in two women leaving their employment with the NRA could mean many things besides a payoff for sexual harassment complaint. Has Politico ever heard the term ‘severance package’?
For example Poltico reported on just such an event involving ACORN in 2009...............Acorn has filed a lawsuit (POLITICO has the complaint) on behalf of itself, plus two employees caught on video tape handing out advice on how to avoid paying taxes on a brothel and hush up the employment of underage sex workers. Acorn claims Tonja Thompson and Shera Williams “suffered extreme emotional distress with attendant physical symptoms and injury to their reputations.” I guess Acorn ought to know; the group’s chief, Bertha Lewis, fired the employees and trashed them on the TV talk shows last weekend.
Acorn’s lawsuit seeks $500,000 in damages for each of the employees they fired, plus $1 million for each in punitives, presumably due to the damage to their reputations inflicted by Acorn. Of course, the real goal here is to intimidate the heroic filmmakers, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, along with Andrew Breitbart who publicized the shocking footage, with harassing litigation designed to drain their wallets and publicly slime them.
“The fact there was a financial ‘settlement’ involved in two women leaving their employment with the NRA could mean many things...”
—Yep. Common examples:
“...Attorneys settle cases all the time under confidential terms. I certainly have. The point is of settlement, instead of taking the risks of litigation which is as certain as a crap game no matter how innocent you are, a reasonable party will pay to make it “go away.” Does this mean culpability? Of course not! It means that instead of paying attorneys buckets of money to defend spurious claims, you pay to settle. It is the cost of living in this litigious world. And settlements of this type are routine in this country and are happening every day.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/10/when_did_you_stop_beating.html
“The fact there was a financial ‘settlement’ involved in two women leaving their employment with the NRA could mean many things besides a payoff for sexual harassment complaint. Has Politico ever heard the term ‘severance package’?”
—Ed Morrissey at Hot Air is thinking the same thing:
“However, it’s not clear from the story whether the settlements themselves are settled legal complaints, or merely small golden parachutes that don’t make any reference to the reason for the departure of the two women.”
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/31/cain-denies-sexual-harassment-claims/