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Title: Lawyer: Cain accuser wants to tell her side of story
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URL Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/inves ... 11/11/01/gIQA0bOIdM_story.html
Published: Nov 1, 2011
Author: James V. Grimaldi
Post Date: 2011-11-01 17:26:46 by Skip Intro
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Views: 8170
Comments: 25
One of the women who accused GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment wants to tell her side of the story but is barred by a confidentiality agreement, her attorney in Washington said Tuesday. Lawyer Joel P. Bennett called on the National Restaurant Association, where the woman and Cain worked in the late 1990s, to release the woman from her written promise not to talk about the allegations or disparage the trade group. “It is just frustrating that Herman Cain is going around bad-mouthing the two complainants, and my client is blocked by a confidentiality agreement,” Bennett said. “The National Restaurant Association ought to release them and allow them to respond. ” The association, which Cain headed from 1996 to 1999, has remained mum since the story broke in Politico on Sunday evening, citing a long-standing policy not to comment on personnel issues. Cain denied the sexual harassment allegations, saying they were “totally baseless and totally false.” Bennett represents one of the two women, who attended an Ivy League school and now works for the federal government. She has avoided the limelight since the allegations were aired, and she is staying with relatives while the media stakes out her home in suburban Maryland, Bennett said. If she is released from the confidentiality ban, “then it is whole new ballgame,” Bennett said. “If we didn’t have a written settlement agreement that says confidential and no disparagement, I think she’d be very comfortable coming forward,” the attorney told The Post on Tuesday. “Not because she would be so hellbent on doing something to Herman Cain — I don’t know that. “For all practical purposes, Herman Cain has already done that” — waived confidentiality, Bennett said. “But legally that might not constitute a waiver.” Because the case is more than a dozen years old, Bennett said he no longer has the file nor the confidentiality agreement. He said his client is sending it to him for review to determine how she might speak publicly. Bennett, who has practiced employment law for four decades since graduating from Georgetown University, said that he disagrees with Cain’s statements that the settlement agreement with his client was only for severance. “If there hadn’t been [sexual harassment] claims, there wouldn’t have been a settlement,” Bennett said. Over the weekend, as the story was breaking, Bennett said his client called him. At the time, he said that he had not even remembered the name of the association official who his client had accused. He said doesn’t remember going to the association offices and thinks the matter might have been handled over fax and phone, and quite expeditiously. Calls to the restaurant association and the Cain campaign were not returned.
Poster Comment: Come on Herb, tell the restaurant association to let you clear your name.
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#1. To: Skip Intro (#0)
You're RIGHT. Let's get all the Reggie Love stories out there for our corrupt POTUS to talk about, the mistresses and victims of the serial rapist "Bubba" Clinton, and any accusers of George W. Bush (also affectionately referred to by me as "Herr Dumbass"). Let's get it ALL out there...!
DUMMY DwarF: ...I'm eating a meatball... "Whenver the dwarf sees something negative about a Democrat, he tries to change the topic of the thread to something else. Usually a personal attack, followed by mutterings about correct 'grammar' 'spelling' whatever. Anything he can think of to avoid a discussion about a Democrat screwing up or looking bad. It's a decade long pattern." --Badeye observation-- This was just discussed on the NBC evening news with Williams. ;)
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
Let me guess... Cain put a pubic hair on her Coke can... I don't support Mr. Cain, but I have nothing against him on the personal level. I am withholding judgment on this until I hear both sizes of the story, in spite of the difficulty he has had being forthcoming in regards to this story.
Have you ever heard him when he used to substitute for Neal Boortz?
Not at all. And I have zero idea who Neal Boortz is.
Boortz is a talk show host out of Atlanta. He calls himself a Libertarian. I enjoy listening to him while I am driving around in the morning. Herman Cain used to supstitute host for him. He came across as very likable and charismatic. I don't agree with everything he is for but I think I like him. Newt Gingrich also used to fill in for Neal Boortz.
I don't watch TV or listen to the radio because i am unwilling to listen to advertising. I'll look for some of his stuff on You Tube or other venues and see what I think of him.
One of the woman's attorney said that Cain should have stuck with his denial. As soon as Cain gave ANY details the HE breached the confidentiality agreement and so the women are no longer bound to it...
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
The problem with your scenario, Junior, is that yours is from the minds of the insane.
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
Letting her speak is a win-win for Herb. If she denies the incident he'll be raking in a boatload of contributions, but if she confirms it he'll rake in even more.
From what I heard he was talking with this woman and the conversation got around to his wife.... He said to the woman "You're about the same height as my wife" and then proceeded to put his hand up to his chin as a gesture of describing her height. And the woman "supposedly" took this gesture as sexual harassment..... Go figure.....
Number of shallow, inadequate, hypocritical Leftards who have me on BOZO---3.......... That means I'm doing my job correctly !!!!!!!!! "CHANGE" you can step in..... Number of shallow, inadequate, hypocritical Leftards who have me on BOZO---3.......... That means I'm doing my job correctly !!!!!!!!! "CHANGE" you can step in..... You are actually onto something. I agree. This isn't going to harm Cain.
Is she a white woman?
Albino?
__________________________________________________________________________________________ Silly woman has announced she won't come forward overnight, skippy. As predicted btw.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
I wish the bitch would come forward. She would be laughed at when she told her story. That is why she is a coward.
She has a confidentiality agreement silencing her, Mr. I'm in a hurry to do a roof. If you don't have a clue, buy a vowel.
As predicted btw. Gee Boofer...you are so astute. I "guess" the fact that she is legally estopped from disclosure had nothing to do with it... /twit
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
Then she shouldn't have attempted character assasination 'anonymously' in the 1st place mikey.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
How's that Boof? She should of seen into the future and known what Cain would be doing in ten or twelve years?
Assuming that she was the one who made public Cain's lack of character to assassinate, she could only do it anonymously. My guess is that it was someone else who was within the restaurant association at the time and that the women, hearing Cain slander them, then went public in the only manner that they could.
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
She isn't, exactly as predicted. The simply fact is she has no legal recourse. Her complaint was investigated and found to be without merit. She then signed a legally binding contract, and accepted 5 figure compensation. Today her attorney announced she decided not to go public. Seems to me her attorney is more like Terrell Owen's agent than a real lawyer, btw.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
Whats a boof, mikey? She should have realized when she opened her mouth she would look ridiculous, and be subjected to a full and complete examination of her claim, and an investigation into her own life. And of course she'd have to pay back the money, and most likely damages if the NRA went after her for violating the confidentiality agreement.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
Come on Herb, tell the restaurant association to let you clear your name.
Capitalist Eric: Foreplay before the president's staff? 
#2. To: Skip Intro (#0)
#3. To: Skip Intro (#0)
Lawyer: Cain accuser wants to tell her side of story
Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel...
#4. To: jwpegler (#3)
#5. To: Ferret Mike (#4)
I don't support Mr. Cain, but I have nothing against him on the personal level.
#6. To: A K A Stone (#5)
#7. To: Ferret Mike (#6)
#8. To: A K A Stone (#7)
#9. To: Skip Intro (#0)
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#10. To: Capitalist Eric (#1)
#11. To: war (#9)
#12. To: jwpegler (#3)
Let me guess... Cain put a pubic hair on her Coke can...
My dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than the self appointed Messiah!!!
#13. To: Ferret Mike (#8)
I don't watch TV or listen to the radio because i am unwilling to listen to advertising. I'll look for some of his stuff on You Tube or other venues and see what I think of him.
My dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than the self appointed Messiah!!!
#14. To: Skip Intro (#11)
Letting her speak is a win-win for Herb. If she denies the incident he'll be raking in a boatload of contributions, but if she confirms it he'll rake in even more.
#15. To: A K A Stone (#14)
#16. To: Fred Mertz (#15)
Is she a white woman?
"Like a cornered animal, which turns instinctively to confront pursuing predators, Pol Pot viewed policy in terms of a fight to the death. The alternative was to be devoured."
- Philip Short
#17. To: Skip Intro (#0)
#18. To: Badeye (#17)
#19. To: A K A Stone (#18)
#20. To: Badeye (#17)
Silly woman has announced she won't come forward overnight, skippy.
#21. To: Ferret Mike (#19)
She has a confidentiality agreement silencing her, Mr. I'm in a hurry to do a roof. If you don't have a clue, buy a vowel.
#22. To: Badeye, war (#21)
#23. To: Badeye (#21)
Then she shouldn't have attempted character assasination 'anonymously' in the 1st place mikey.
#24. To: A K A Stone (#18)
#25. To: Ferret Mike (#22)
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