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Fundraiser Sues Saying New York's Binghamton University Used Her as Sexual 'Plaything'
Foxnews ^ | 7/10/2009 | Staff

Posted on 07/10/2009 10:16:42 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA

NEW YORK — A fundraiser at an upstate university has sued two senior athletic department officials, accusing them of using her as a "plaything" and trying to make her ply big donors with her sexuality.

The plaintiff, Elizabeth Williams, is represented by the lawyer who won a highly publicized sexual harassment case against former New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas two years ago.

Williams' lawsuit, filed late Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan, alleges that after she took the fundraising position late last year in the Binghamton University athletic department, she "discovered that her new bosses viewed women as playthings and expected women in the department to raise money by exploiting their sexuality."

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1 posted on 07/10/2009 10:16:42 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA

What does she LOOK like? Pics? Guilty, or innocent? LOL.


2 posted on 07/10/2009 10:18:14 AM PDT by 2harddrive (then)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Pretty difficult to rule on the merit of her case without pics...


3 posted on 07/10/2009 10:18:19 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Red in Blue PA

“...and expected women in the department to raise money by exploiting their sexuality.”

Oh, Hells Bells. Who doesn’t, Honey? Every married woman here knows how to play that game, LOL! ;)


4 posted on 07/10/2009 10:18:28 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

TTIUWP


5 posted on 07/10/2009 10:18:40 AM PDT by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: Red in Blue PA

The man laying the hundred dollar bills on the table is a pig.


7 posted on 07/10/2009 10:19:28 AM PDT by sauropod (People who do things are people that get things done.)
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To: Fido969

“TTIUWP”

Translate please.


8 posted on 07/10/2009 10:20:17 AM PDT by sauropod (People who do things are people that get things done.)
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To: Red in Blue PA
... ply big donors with her sexuality.

What in the world does that mean? Was she supposed to dress attractively and flirt a little, or was she supposed to have sex with them?

9 posted on 07/10/2009 10:21:13 AM PDT by Tax-chick (In addition to living on the Riviera, the Goths ...)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Same one who sued the Knicks and Thomas?

Professional victim here?
10 posted on 07/10/2009 10:21:52 AM PDT by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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To: Red in Blue PA; 2harddrive; Joe 6-pack; Diana in Wisconsin; Fido969

Elizabeth Williams
“Regional Director of Major Gifts”

LOL.

http://www2.binghamton.edu/giving/about/staff.html


11 posted on 07/10/2009 10:22:06 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: sauropod

“This thread is U without pictures.” Usually the U is a W, which means “worthless.”


12 posted on 07/10/2009 10:22:09 AM PDT by Tax-chick (In addition to living on the Riviera, the Goths ...)
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To: sauropod
Translate please.


13 posted on 07/10/2009 10:22:29 AM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: sauropod

“TTIUWP” = this thread is useless without pictures


14 posted on 07/10/2009 10:22:32 AM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (The emperor has no pedigree.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Gee, you prostitute yourself as a “fundraiser”, and people think you’re a prostitute? How horrible!


15 posted on 07/10/2009 10:22:47 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Red in Blue PA

I kept saying...NO! STOP!...while while getting paid.


16 posted on 07/10/2009 10:22:49 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: OCCASparky

Same lawyer, not the same plaintiff.


17 posted on 07/10/2009 10:23:09 AM PDT by Tax-chick (In addition to living on the Riviera, the Goths ...)
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To: sauropod
The man laying the hundred dollar bills on the table is a pig

Then she should have sued him

18 posted on 07/10/2009 10:23:18 AM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Every married woman here knows how to play that game

??????

Diana, I am shocked!

19 posted on 07/10/2009 10:24:02 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (This country isn't going to hell in a handbasket, it's riding shotgun in an Indy car....)
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To: Tax-chick

Yeah, I noticed that when I read it again. D’oh!


20 posted on 07/10/2009 10:24:53 AM PDT by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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