Posted on 12/10/2003 7:11:32 AM PST by chance33_98
Schwarzenegger Changes Mind About Probe Into Groping Allegations
In an about-face, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said there will not be a private investigation into groping allegations made against him.
That announcement came the same day Hollywood stuntwoman Rhonda Miller filed a lawsuit against Schwarzenegger and a member of his campaign staff for defamation.
During the final days of his campaign for governor, Schwarzenegger said he would hire a private investigator to look into accusations that he groped as many as 16 women over the past three decades.
According to aides, Schwarzenegger now feels he is too busy trying to solve the budget deficit and he doubts a private investigation would make his critics happy.
The defamation charge stems from an alleged retaliatory incident after Miller went public with an allegation that Schwarzenegger groped her during the time she worked as a stuntwoman on the films "True Lies" and "Terminator 2." Almost immediately, the media began reporting that Miller had been convicted of several serious crimes.
The information on Miller was distributed by the Schwarzenegger campaign, which directed reporters to go to the Los Angeles Superior Court website and type the name "Rhonda Miller" into the search engine there. The search produced court records showing that a woman named Rhonda Miller had a long criminal record.
The records, as it turned out, were for a different Rhonda Miller. The Rhonda Miller who leveled allegations at Schwarzenegger has never been arrested.
Miller and her attorneys claim the Schwarzenegger campaign knowingly misdirected reporters in an effort to discredit her. The suit filed against the governor seeks unspecified monetary damages.
The woman and her lawyers assume that reporters have no responsibility for verifying their own sources, I see. Wonder which media outlet is in their pocket?
Prairie
You're right. We'd have been much better off had bustaMechA won.
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