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Since 1950, Americans with household help have been required to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes for workers earning more than $50 in a calendar quarter (plus unemployment insurance for workers earning $1,000). For many years, compliance was difficult and time consuming and, for the IRS, enforcement was a low priority. In 1986, new immigration laws made it illegal to hire undocumented immigrants, even in private homes. Both laws were widely disregarded. So obscure was the tax regulation and so common the hiring violation that neither the Clinton transition team nor the Senate Judiciary Committee that would confirm her (and...

FRESNO – For weeks, Republican Meg Whitman demanded that Jerry Brown, her Democratic rival for governor, debate her in Fresno, clearly hoping it would shore up support in the GOP-leaning San Joaquin Valley and among Latino voters, but Brown stalled. Whitman finally got her wish Saturday in a bilingual debate sponsored by Univision, but it quickly became a slugfest as Brown pummeled her on how she handled a former housekeeper who was an illegal immigrant – a case that had erupted just days earlier. Whitman fired Nicky Diaz Santillan in June 2009 after, she says, learning that her employee was...

Media hound Gloria Allred should be disbarred. Representing an illegal immigrant who is a former housekeeper of Meg Whitman, who just happens to be running for Governor of California, Ms. Allred has taken to the airwaves in a blatant, if not illegal attempt to tar Meg Whitman with the label of liar just ahead of the California gubernatorial election. Ms. Allred appeared with her client Nicky Diaz Santillan on national television yesterday to show what a big meanie Meg Whitman is. With tears dripping down her cheeks and a quavering voice, Santillan detailed how (Republican) Meg Whitman abused her. She...

Mark Levin confronts Gloria Allred over her recent allegations against GOP candidate Meg Whitman. Advice for Gloria: Your mindless spin is useless when you're not being interviewed by a main-stream media "journalist". You've been exposed. Audio at link.

Experts: Whitman's ex-housekeeper unlikely to be deported anytime soonBy Susan Ferriss Last Modified: Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010 - 12:54 am Nicky Diaz Santillan has been outed across the nation as an illegal immigrant who used a fake ID to gain employment with Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman. **SNIP** In meetings with reporters this week, Diaz Santillan's attorney, Gloria Allred, was asked about the timing of the housekeeper's decision to go public and whether Diaz Santillan was getting paid. Allred said Diaz Santillan was not getting paid by anyone, and that the housekeeper had only recently contacted her. Allred suggested Whitman...

Gloria Allred produced a copy of 2003 letter that she said proved that Meg Whitman is a liar who knew that she had hired an illegal immigrant as her housekeeper.I highly recommend that people read the letter. Yes, includes a note from husband Griffith Harsh to Diaz that read: "Nicky, please check this, thanks." But it is not a smoking gun. For one thing, it told Whitman and Harsh that Nicandra Diaz Santillan's Social Security number did not match her name, but it also stated, "This letter does not imply that you or your employee intentionally provided incorrect information about...

Gloria Allred, the attorney at the center of this week's spectacle over Meg Whitman's illegal immigrant housekeeper, spent time working for Jerry Brown's gubernatorial campaign in the mid-1970s, according to a decades-old article in an American Bar Association magazine. Allred has downplayed her ties to Brown. But to the Whitman campaign - which released a photograph of Allred and Brown at a C-SPAN panel in 1994 - the celebrity attorney is long-time supporter of the former governor and a partisan Democrat. The ABA article, written in 1985, describes the beginnings of Allred's practice: Allred and Maroko set up quarters in...

Be the man you played in film, and tell your Attorney General to" CALL OFF YOUR GOON SQUAD" The rats pulled this off in '94 against Hershensohn, in 2000 against Bush, and 2003 against you. Act like a man and also demand that your Attorney General investigate the illegal and Allred

Gloria Allred is doing more to drive illegal immigrants underground and to target Latinos for racial profiling than anything the State of Arizona has even thought of doing. Allred dropped a late-September surprise on Meg Whitman based on the allegation that Whitman did not do enough to verify the status of her Latino housekeeper. Whitman, by all accounts, obtained the usual required documentation when she hired the housekeeper. The thrust of Allred's attack is that after Whitman or her husband received a letter from the IRS alerting them to a possible discrepancy in the housekeeper's social security number, Whitman did...

Here’s how I know this story won’t hurt her: If I’m this bored blogging about it, Californians must be doubly bored reading about it. “While I honestly do not recall receiving this letter, as it was sent to me seven years ago, I can say it is possible that I would’ve scratched a follow up note on a letter like this, which is a request for information to make certain Nicky received her Social Security benefits and W-2 tax refund for withheld wages. Since we believed her to be legal, I would have had no reason to suspect that she...

Meg Whitman hits back at Gloria Allred's pre-October surprise, raising questions about Allred's own conduct in this affair. How did she get that SSA letter she claims to have? (Update: Allred produces the letter) (Update: Whitman responds) The stars have aligned and the national press corps is screaming to push the story that Meg Whitman broke the law by employing an illegal immigrant nanny, then cold-heartedly firing her to get her out of the way of her run for governor of California. Thus, lawyered up with Gloria Allred in tow, an unknown nanny went viral tabloid style, claiming that she...

California's largest public employees union has seized on charges that Meg Whitman knowingly hired an illegal immigrant as a housekeeper, funding a Spanish-language TV spot that calls the Republican nominee for governor a "woman of two faces." The campaign ad seeks to damage Whitman's standing among Latino voters, a typically Democratic constituency in California that the billionaire and former eBay CEO has courted in her tight race against Democratic rival Jerry Brown. "Whitman attacks undocumented workers to win votes, but an undocumented woman worked in her house for nine years," a narrator says in Spanish in the ad, launched...

AUDIO HERE Reader's Digest Version: Allred is using an illegal alien housekeeper to try and score political points against Meg Wittmann with venom. The illegal alien used a false social security number, but Allred is suing so that her "client" can get "in and around milage expenses" for driving to the grocery store. In the process of pursuing this matter, Levin is accusing Allred of exploiting this woman and putting her in danger of a felony conviction.

Gloria Allred may be doing Meg Whitman a favor with her ridiculous stunt accusing Meg Whitman of knowingly employing an illegal alien housekeeper. The story is so full of holes that it is transparently bogus, and will serve to discredit not just Allred and the housekeeper, but possibly Jerry Brown, California's Attorney General. Hugh Hewitt, law professor, writer, and talk show host, had Gloria Allred on his radio program yesterday, and probed some of the major weaknesses in the case, and wrote about it on Townhall. First, he sums up the charges: Turns out that Whitman had hired a housekeeper...

The company that Meg Whitman used to hire her maid Nicky Diaz Santillan back in 2000 claims Nicky deceived them about her immigration status before the company referred her over to Meg. The owners of Town & Country Resources tell TMZ that when Nicky filled out the standard candidate questionnaire, she "indicated she was legally able to work in the United States" ... even though Nicky knew she was in the country illegally. T&CR add ... "Further, Nicky provided us and our client with the documents that our client would need to complete the I-9 form as was their legal...

Meg Whitman's husband just admitted it's "possible" he saw the letter that Gloria Allred claims proves Meg is a "liar" -- but Meg's camp now claims ... the letter actually HELPS Whitman. --- Meg's husband, Dr. Griff Harsh, now says while it's "possible" he scribbled on the letter ... "it's important to note what this letter actually says: 'this letter makes no statement about your employee's immigration status." During a phone interview moments ago, Meg's camp further explained how the letter "completely contradicts the conclusions" made by Allred ... CLICK HERE to listen.

Gloria Allred being interviewed LIVE by John & Ken on KFI radio in LA.

Meg Whitman's campaign for governor was thrown into turmoil Thursday as the Republican sought to fend off new evidence that she knowingly had an illegal immigrant housekeeper on her payroll for nearly a decade. Whitman denounced the allegations as a "baseless smear attack" by Democratic challenger Jerry Brown in what has become a dead-heat race five weeks before the election. The central issue is whether Whitman knew about a letter that the Social Security Administration sent her in 2003 that raised discrepancies about the housekeeper's documents — a possible tip-off that she could be illegal. The letter is the foundation...

The Service Employees International Union is out with a new television ad in California hitting GOP gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman for paying an undocumented immigrant to be her housekeeper. "Whitman attacks undocumented workers to win votes, but an undocumented woman worked in her home for nine years," the narrator of the ad says in Spanish. The ad comes one day after the housekeeper held a press conference during which she alleged that she had been "exploited, disrespected, humiliated and emotionally and financially abused" by the former eBay CEO. "Whitman says one thing in Spanish - and something different in English,"...

Lawyer Gloria Allred released a letter today that she claims proves California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman knowingly employed an undocumented immigrant as her housekeeper. The letter was sent from the Social Security Administration to Whitman and her husband Griffith Harsh on April 22, 2003. It advises the couple that the Social Security number of their housekeeper, Nicky Diaz, did not match their files. The back of the letter includes a handwritten note, which Allred said was written by Harsh, that reads: "Nicky, please check this. Thanks." Allred said that neither Whitman nor her husband followed up with Diaz about the...