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Then-married former NBC employee claims Lauer sexually assaulted her until she passed out in office
Fox News ^ | 30 Nov 17 | Edmund DeMarche

Posted on 11/30/2017 5:30:42 AM PST by SkyPilot

Matt Lauer, the disgraced former anchor of NBC's "Today" show who was fired Wednesday for “inappropriate sexual behavior,” once summoned a married female employee to his office, locked the door and sexually assaulted her until she passed out, the New York Times reported after interviewing the accuser.

The alleged incident occurred in 2001. The woman, who was not named in the report, told the Times that she was in her 40s at the time.

According to the report, Lauer was behind his desk and she took a seat in the office. She said he locked the door from a button at his desk and he asked her to unbutton her blouse. She said she complied and claims he got up from his desk, approached her from behind, bent her over his desk and had sex.

Woke up on the floor

Matt Lauer has been terminated from NBC News. On Monday night, we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by Matt Lauer. As a result, we’ve decided to terminate his employment. pic.twitter.com/1A3UAZpvPb — TODAY (@TODAYshow) November 29, 2017

She claims that she passed out during intercourse and woke up later on the floor in his office. She said Lauer had his assistant take her to a nurse. She told the Times that Lauer never mentioned the encounter with her again and she said she left the network about a year later.

The accuser asked the paper not to identify her in the report. The paper said it contacted her ex-husband who said he remembered the alleged encounter. The two were reportedly separated in 2001 and are now divorced.

The Times report said NBC received at least two more complaints about Lauer after the network announced he was fired prior to Wednesday’s "Today"...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mattlauer; media; nbc; sexualassault
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To: I want the USA back

“The Left promoted a culture of free, no-responsibility sex, and now it’s coming back to haunt them.”

Mona Charen was interviewed last night on EWTN and that’s exactly what she said. Don’t look for her to be interviewed on CNN or MSNBC any time soon.


81 posted on 11/30/2017 6:39:13 AM PST by NKP_Vet ("Man without God descends into madness")
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

“Yes, because every time I have consensual sex with my boss I black out as well and have to be revived by co-workers and taken to a nurse for medical treatment.”

But where’s the assault? I’ve read at least three versions of this story now and none of them mention any physical assault, rape, or violence of any kind. She fainted and Lauer’s a scumbag for leaving her on the floor like a piece of trash, but there is not a single mention of any violence. And why would she consent to unbuttoning her blouse?

She consented. She fainted. She might have fainted for any number of reasons. She herself gave no information showing anything other than a consensual encounter. They’re both idiots. And I am in no way defending Lauer either.


82 posted on 11/30/2017 6:40:09 AM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: yldstrk
Doesn’t pass the smell test. If someone calls me in to a meeting and says unbutton your blouse, I am telling them to fuc8 off, if they come closer I am picking up the phone receiver to konk them in the head, bang on the door and scream bloody murder.

Same here. I'm going down fighting, unless it's something I wanted to do.

83 posted on 11/30/2017 6:40:12 AM PST by Bodleian_Girl (Please see my profile to find out why the Birmingham News is trying to destroy Judge Roy Moore)
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To: SkyPilot

I doubt Matt installed the button. So the network knew and was complicit.

I rarely even shut the door with a female employee and never ever locked it. Also had a former First Sergeant tell me he removed the door from his office as a Drill Sergeant so there could be no allegations.


84 posted on 11/30/2017 6:41:26 AM PST by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: MayflowerMadam
they don’t believe her — a little like what’s going on in some posts here.

She took her shirt off for him!

85 posted on 11/30/2017 6:41:46 AM PST by Bodleian_Girl (Please see my profile to find out why the Birmingham News is trying to destroy Judge Roy Moore)
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To: SkyPilot

I believe that this I the same network that once ran I spy starring bill Cosby.

It has been alleged that NBC has a sexual misbehavior cleanup crew.

If that is so and proof comes out than NBC should be shut down permanently for i criminal illegalities.


86 posted on 11/30/2017 6:41:59 AM PST by SteveH
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Yes. Agreed.


87 posted on 11/30/2017 6:42:14 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: SkyPilot

These office types have too much energy and free time to think about things they want to do. Talking, talking, thinking you are special and powerful and people accommodate and enable your every whim. Toxic environment. Similar kind of job in politics. Proverbs 16:27-29 “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop; idle lips are his mouthpiece.An evil man sows strife; gossip separates the best of friends. Wickedness loves company—and leads others into sin.” This is TLB translation. It is different from other versions but I like the emphasis.


88 posted on 11/30/2017 6:43:33 AM PST by outinyellowdogcountry
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To: SteveH

I’m sure he had some nice trophies for outstanding journalism in his office that could have been cracked on his head.


89 posted on 11/30/2017 6:43:51 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604
The passing out part a d getting a nurse is bizarre also.

There is nothing in the article about why she passed out. Was she drinking or on drugs? Seems strange that such an important detail was left out.

90 posted on 11/30/2017 6:45:15 AM PST by olezip
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To: SkyPilot

Why is it only being reported that she was married.
Isn’t Lauer also married? With children?


91 posted on 11/30/2017 6:45:57 AM PST by Scotswife
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To: Wolfie

it is coerced sex not necessarily illegal, but certainly immoral and repulsive appears it was a problem at the workplace/work environment and ignored by management

(c) Where the offense charged is sexual abuse or forcible touching,
any circumstances, in addition to forcible compulsion or incapacity to
consent, in which the victim does not expressly or impliedly acquiesce
in the actor’s conduct; or
(d) Where the offense charged is rape in the third degree as defined
in subdivision three of section 130.25, or criminal sexual act in the
third degree as defined in subdivision three of section 130.40, in
addition to forcible compulsion, circumstances under which, at the time
of the act of intercourse, oral sexual conduct or anal sexual conduct,
the victim clearly expressed that he or she did not consent to engage in
such act, and a reasonable person in the actor’s situation would have
understood such person’s words and acts as an expression of lack of
consent to such act under all the circumstances.

http://ypdcrime.com/penal.law/article130.htm


92 posted on 11/30/2017 6:46:21 AM PST by rolling_stone
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To: Personal Responsibility

“Today” is worth $500 million a year to NBC.


93 posted on 11/30/2017 6:48:08 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Bob Celeste

So are you saying you don’t believe the allegations and that you think NBC was in error to fire Lauer?


94 posted on 11/30/2017 6:48:17 AM PST by Freedom56v2 (If you think health care is expensive, just wait until it is "free" ;( PJ O'Rourke)
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To: olezip

Totally bizarre. Unless Laur was choking her, but then surely she would have added that detail.


95 posted on 11/30/2017 6:49:54 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: SkyPilot

I despise Lauer, but this story is just a little too difficult to believe. She unbuttoned her blouse at his request? She did not leave the company until a year later?


96 posted on 11/30/2017 6:53:06 AM PST by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go. Dump McConnman, too.)
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To: ThinkingBuddha

That’s what I was thinking.


97 posted on 11/30/2017 6:53:41 AM PST by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go. Dump McConnman, too.)
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To: All

A lot of you are operating under a mis-conception. You keep saying the woman consented when she unbuttoned her blouse. Not true.

If a bad guy hold a gun on you and tells you to open the garage door and then he takes your car, did you consent to him stealing your car? Think about it.

Woman is in a locked room with her boss. He has the power to pick up the phone and end her career. He says “ Unbutton your blouse.” Woman does so, not thinking for one second that a few open buttons means impending rape. Think about it.


98 posted on 11/30/2017 6:54:28 AM PST by blu (If you don't read the story at the link, don't comment. (Except for Laz...))
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To: SkyPilot

2001?

This scumbag has gotten away with this crap for 16 years or more?

They, NBC suits, HAD TO HAVE KNOWN.

They are just as guilty as accomplices...............................


99 posted on 11/30/2017 6:54:33 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Bob Celeste

Husband didn’t do anything-——— New York men must not be like they used to be. Just sayin’.


100 posted on 11/30/2017 6:54:52 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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