Cain Accuser Got a Year’s Salary in Severance Pay - $35,000

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Drip, drip, drip...

Cain Accuser Got a Year’s Salary in Severance Pay

By JIM RUTENBERG, JEFF ZELENY and MIKE McINTIRE

Published: November 1, 2011

This article is by Jim Rutenberg, Jeff Zeleny and Mike McIntire.

WASHINGTON — The National Restaurant Association gave $35,000 — a year’s salary — in severance pay to a female staff member in the late 1990s after an encounter with Herman Cain, its chief executive at the time, made her uncomfortable working there, three people with direct knowledge of the payment said on Tuesday.

The woman was one of two whose accusations of sexual harassment by Mr. Cain, now a Republican candidate for president, led to paid severance agreements during his 1996-99 tenure as the association’s chief. Disclosure of the cases has rocked Mr. Cain’s campaign just as he was surging in polls.

Further challenging Mr. Cain, a lawyer for the second woman called on the restaurant association to release her from a confidentiality agreement signed as part of her settlement, raising the prospect that she could publicly dispute Mr. Cain’s account of what happened. The lawyer said the confidentiality agreement had left her unable to respond to Mr. Cain’s dismissal of the complaints against him as a “witch hunt” or to his denials of any inappropriate behavior toward the women.

“He’s basically saying: ‘I never harassed anyone. These claims have no merit,’ ” said the lawyer, Joel P. Bennett of Washington, who represented the woman in her initial agreement. “And I’m sure my client would have a comeback to that.”

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1. So it wasn't 0 months or...

Daily Kos So it wasn't 0 months. Or 3 months. Or 6 months. It was a full year...

He has fleas!

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Well-deserved negative press for this moron.

[Lugnut]

2. Ole Herm is circling the drain.

At this rate, he'll be history by the weekend if not sooner. What did he think was going to happen?

[LiberalFighter]

3. Will he claim that racism has raised its ugly head. Just because it happened to him?

[Tarheel_Dem]

4. We had an incident at a company I worked for in the 80's, and she got a lot more than a measly year.

That really sucks.

[Elsewheres Grandson]

5. Any network would pay ten times that for the woman's story

She'd easisily be able to pay back the restaurant assoc. for breaching confidentiality.