Posted on 11/01/2011 6:03:22 PM PDT by Steelfish
November 1, 2011 Cain Accuser Wants to Tell Story, Lawyer Says By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and JIM RUTENBERG The lawyer for one of the two women who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment said Tuesday that she wanted to come forward but was bound by a confidentiality agreement with the National Restaurant Association.
The lawyer, Joel P. Bennett of Washington, said in an interview that his client was calling upon the association to release her from the confidentiality agreement so that she could speak publicly about what happened with Mr. Cain.
“He’s no longer an employee of the National Restaurant Association, so the National Restaurant Association could argue that well, he’s no longer an employee so it doesn’t bind” the women, Mr. Bennett said.
Appearing on Fox News on Tuesday evening, shortly after The Washington Post first reported Mr. Bennett’s comments, Mr. Cain declined to call on the restaurant association to release the woman from the agreement.
“I just found out about this today,” Mr. Cain said. “I can’t give you a definitive answer on that until we consult with our attorneys.”
Mr. Cain said that there could be “legal implications” if the women involved were released from the confidentiality agreements. He did not say what those implications might be. He also said he did not think that he had waived confidentiality by talking about the incidents.
“I never used the name,” he said. “I don’t believe that I have.”
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I have a really bad feeling about where all this is headed. I sure hope I am wrong.
Cain Accuser Wants to Tell Story [for a few hundred thousand bucks], Lawyer Says
Anita Hill, chapter 2.
Do we have a betting pool on how long until she hires Gloria Allred?
Don’t really care. Cain says the accusations were deemed baseless and that’s the end of it in my book.
I think it would be better to get her out now before the DNC fiction writers get to her.
if she received a monetary settlement, and accepted the settlement,
how?
And subsequently, the NRA has still not been contacted by this sheister lawyer. He runs to the WAPO and neglects to make a call to the NRA first?
Unless he raped her, I couldn’t care less. Cain should have handled this in the same vein as his smoking ad. He should have held a press conference immediately and said something like this: “I grew up in an age when complementing a woman was a nice thing to do, when calling her “honey” or “sweetie” was considered endearing, when women were happy to be told they looked pretty. The women I know still do like these things. If any woman I’ve ever treated with this kind of respectful complement was offended, I’m sorry, but it was never intended as anything more than a pleasantry. That’s all. Thank you.”
She made the deal, took the settlement, story over.
Nobody knows who she is and it should stay that way.
If some woman felt uncomfortable near a strong black man, the man can't help it.
Drag her ass out. If she’s a ‘RAT, you can’t bet she has got a lot of skeletons just like every other useful idiot that the ‘RATS drag out.
Guess she realized that she had only received the down payment on the monetary settlement.
If anyone brings up any confidentiality agreement, she's going to accuse Mr. Cain of "trying to take away my Constitutional Rights."
"As far as Herman Cain is concerned, I'm only 3/5's of a human being. I actually heard someone say he said that."
The Nazicrats and the Follitico are desperate to crucify Cain, for they know that Bammo is toast head to head with Hermann. My money is with him.
So now Cain is the defendant on sex harassment after he pulled the race card on a fellow republican. That’s rich
You have a person who never brought a lawsuit, took some money, agrees to keep quiet, agreed there was no claim proven.
Now the creep wants the money and to ruin Mr. Cain 12 years later.
How sweet. The person is a lying troublemaking piece of crap on the face of it. Now pressure people so you can get even more. I’d tell her to go to hell.
I can assure you she agreed to pay the money back if she ever brought this up. But hey why should that matter?
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