Posted on 11/09/2011 1:45:28 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Karen Kraushaar, who settled a sexual harassment complaint against Republican presidential frontrunner Herman Cain in 1999, filed a different complaint at her next job four years later, accusing a manager of sending out a sexually suggestive email and asking to be allowed to work at home after a car accident.
Kraushaar made the complaint, which did not involve a claim of sexual harassment, while working at the Immigration and Naturalization Service in 2003. Her lawyer was Joel Bennett, the same lawyer who had handled her harassment complaint against Herman Cain at the National Restaurant Association.
Kraushaar was injured in a car accident at an intersection in late 2002. After the accident, Kraushaar asked to be allowed to work from home. She filed the complaint when her repeated requests to work at home were denied, according to a former supervisor. The former supervisor told ABC News that Kraushaar wanted a "large payout" of tens of thousands of dollars, a year-long fellowship at Harvard, a raise and the reinstatement of sick leave.
Miami Herald/Getty ImagesImmigration and Naturalization spokesperson... View Full Size Miami Herald/Getty ImagesImmigration and Naturalization spokesperson Karen Kraushaar offers an official statement after a meeting with the Miami family of Elian Gonzalez in this March 29, 2000 file photo. Herman Cain Responds Watch Video Herman Cain Fires Back at Accusers Watch Video My Dinner With Herman Cain Watch Video Kraushaar, now 55, told the Associated Press she considered the complaint "relatively minor" and she later dropped it.
"The concern was that there may have been discrimination on the job and that I was being treated unfairly," said Kraushaar, who also said she did not remember the specifics of her demands in the complaint. Bennett told the AP he could not comment on the complaint because it was confidential.
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When reporters asked Bennett Wednesday if there was a "pattern" of complaints from Kraushaar, he said, "My client is 55 years old and she has been employed for approximately 30 years. During the course of employment sometimes people have complaints or grievances, and our position is that any other complaints or grievances that she's had in her lengthy employment career are irrelevant to whether or not this specific complaint in 1999 was baseless."
Kraushaar's former supervisor at the INS, who was named in Kraushaar's complaint, characterized the 2003 complaint to ABC News as "frivolous," and said Kraushaar may have been offered a few extra sick days as compensation.
The supervisor alleged that Kraushaar had a "poor work ethic."
The supervisor, a self-described Democrat, decided to speak out about Kraushaar's complaint because of "doubts about her credibility."
And here is how Herman Cain remembered their encounter:
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Herman Cain has characterized Kraushaar’s complaint against him as baseless, and says that all he remembers is making an innocuous gesture while she was in his office with the door open and his secretary just outside.
“I referenced this lady’s height and I was standing near her, and I did this saying, you’re the same height of my wife, because my wife is five feet tall and she comes up to my chin,” Cain explained to CNN.
“This lady’s five feet tall and she came up to my chin. So obviously she thought that that was too close for comfort. It showed up in the actual allegation.”
Is this what he “remembered” or is the taken directly from the sexual harassment complaint against him?
I don’t know what the truth is about this whole thing but I do know troublemakers when I see them. And yes, they all come with their own set of poor work ethics. They are sometimes referred to as “deadwood”. Most employers will do anything just to make them go away.
CAIN 2012
And they tend to gravitate to government jobs.
RE: Is this what he “remembered” or is the taken directly from the sexual harassment complaint against him?
It was what he remembered from over a decade ago.
The story was she filed a complaint against Cain, which Cain disputed. The Human Resource department investigated the incident and found it to be without merit.
In order to avoid more hassles, they decided to allow her to leave with a package ( a settlement if yo will ) which the NRA agreed with her in exchange for SEALING the issue.
Herman Cain claims he never signed on to the settlement.
Most recently, the NRA waived the confidentiality agreement.
She apparently wanted to stay mum, but someone close to her (apparently Kraushaar’s brother) outed her name to the press.
So, here we are.
What he have not heard from Kraushaar is HER SIDE of how the incident occured.
Doesn't anyone proofread anymore?
The woman is a serial moron, with little to no self esteem.
The pattern behavior of these suspect women doesn’t surprise me in the least, and neither does the crying and whining of the usual suspect, weak kneed, pansy ass cannabilistic GOP.
THe NRA's statement on Friday confirmed Cain's claim. They said he was never party to the agreement. It was between Kraushaar, Bennett and 2 corporate NRA attorneys.
The NRA has waived this Kraushaar's non-disclosure - she can tell EXACTLY what happened if she wants.
Thanks. At one time I read that Cain had been briefed on the actual complaint, but I had not seen any reference to it.
I guess we will soon see it and judge for ourselves.
Probably in negoiation with Lifetime Movie Network right now. Just sayin'.
Cain said it was what he "remembered" -- and he speculated that it was what initiated the complaint.
Cain doesn't have any idea what's actually in the complaint, remember -- because he was not part of the investigation and not a party to the agreement.
In any event, this article pretty well devastates Ms. Kraushaar's credibility -- she's a complainer and a shirker, looking to live off litigation rather than actual work.
I’m curious. What was the cause of the car accident?
We’ll have to see on that. I recall all the women that accused Clinton were attacked with the exact same rhetoric. I refuse to be a Carville clone.
As Rush might say...”a random act of journalism”...
If her recollections are correct and his are wrong don’t you think her lawyer would be competent enough to take her claim to the EEOC? Obviously he was willing to accept the offer made by HR when going to the EEOC would have meant a better pay out for both of them.
Cindie
Oops, I meant that to go to magritte. Sorry!
Cindie
Yeah cuz anyone who hasn’t come to the same conclusion as you are “Carville clones”, huh? Why do you bother responding to people who are so obviously beneath you?
Cindie
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