Posted on 10/03/2010 2:10:01 AM PDT by Scanian
The more we learn about this business of Meg Whitman, Republican gubernatorial candidate in California, supposedly hiring an undocumented worker as a domestic the more we have to ask ourselves, how on earth did Gloria Allred ever become known as a hotshot attorney?
The letter from the Social Security Administration that Allred cites as damning proof of Whitmans wrongdoing does no such thing. Read for yourself:
"This letter does not imply that you or your employee intentionally provided incorrect information about the employees name or SSN. It is not a basis, in and of itself, for you to take any adverse action against the employee, such as laying off, suspending, firing, or discriminating against the individual. Any employer that uses the information in this letter to justify taking adverse action against an employee may violate state or federal law and be subject to legal consequences. Moreover, this letter makes no statement about your employees immigration status."
If anything, that letter would scare most folks off from doing anything even if the employee didnt produce the requested proof of legal status. Its essentially a case of damned if you do and damned if you dont. But Allred apparently didnt read that paragraph because she says in her email which is reproduced immediately below the SSA document at the TMZ site:
A mismatch of a Social Security number to an employees name is a clue that the employee may be undocumented.
Notice that legal weasel word may. Also notice that Allred makes this contention in direct contradiction to an explicit warning that such information is not to be used as a basis for making any such inference. What part of basis do you suppose grandstanding Gloria doesnt understand? My legal training is limited, but Greta van Susteren, who is a lawyer, absolutely ate Allreds lunch last night on her show. (Video at link)
Allred has misrepresented the truth and her supposed client. If this domestic worker being exploited has any sense at all shell hire another attorney and sue the hell out of Allred for legal malpractice and placing her in legal jeopardy. And for this kind of legal sloppiness Gloria gets the big bucks?
Someone should tell Gloria and the Democrats that when the only thing youre hitting is your foot, put the gun down and step away
Whitman hired the housekeeper through an accredited employment service which specifically verified her legal immigration status.
That is all that needs to be known about the case.
Hotshod? Prada?
This wannabe-code-pink critter is an attorney??
I imagine it won't take 5 minutes for Breitbart to find out who is funding this.
Also I find it amusing that after decades of pounding Californians with the rights of illegals they expect us to be offended that Meg Whitman paid her illegal housekeeper $25/hr for 9 years. I pay my housekeeper $8/hr. I'd be a housekeeper for $25/hr!
It's racist to ask for papers for everyone but Meg Whitman? Idiots.
Whitman worked for Jerry Brwon, nuff said. What happeneds to this housekeeper after November 2nd, The fact that her illegal status was brought to light may never have happened if she wasn’t offered alternative if she did. where is the outcry from latinos? This is abuse for political gain.
That paragraph is sickening. It's the feds basically telling an employer that "we know your employee is illegal but don't you dare do anything about it."
She knows Janet Napolitano became famous as Anita Hill’s attorney. Allred’s antics are a part of her campaign to become the next Secretary of Defense.
She's unprincipled, a media whore and always represents the scumbag side of any issue. I'd say she'd fit in perfectly almost anywhere in the Odumbo administration. Maybe she's trolling for the ballerina's position?
While I was still working at the Social Security Administration Headquarters in Woodlawn, Md some 20 years ago, they had a meeting at which the then Commissioner made the ruling that: “The term alien will no longer be used within the administration unless you are referring to little green men from Mars!” I really believe that they don’t want the “undocumented guest workers” who are paying into the system, as well as their employers, revealed as it would cut down on the funds coming into the Ponzi scheme.
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