Restaurant Association confirms settlement with Cain accuser
The National Restaurant Association confirmed Friday it granted a financial settlement to a woman after she filed an internal harassment complaint against Herman Cain in 1999.
The trade group also freed her from her confidentiality agreement, even though her attorney stated she doesn’t intend to come forward.
“Notwithstanding the Association’s on-going policy of maintaining the privacy of all personnel matters, we have advised [her attorney] that we are willing to waive the confidentiality of this matter and permit Mr. [Joel] Bennett’s client to comment,” National Restaurant Association President Dawn Sweeney stated Friday in a statement.
Bennett, the attorney for the woman, submitted a request on Thursday for his client to be released from the agreement.
The association announced its decision just as Bennett was telling reporters that the complaint against Cain involved “more than one incident” that, in the woman’s opinion, qualified as sexual harassment.
“My client stands by the complaint that she made,” he said.
Bennett declined to reveal additional details about the nature of the incidents, citing the woman’s desire to stay out of the spotlight. He did note that he believes Cain was no longer at the association when the woman’s complaint was settled. That means Cain was not a party to the agreement and is not bound by a confidentiality obligation. He headed the trade group from 1996 to 1999.
The two announcements late Friday raised more questions than they answered. Bennett’s request for the woman to be released from the confidentiality obligation led many to believe she wanted to come forward and make public her accusations against the man who is leading the polls for the Republican presidential nomination.
Also unclear was whether the other woman reported to have received a financial settlement would be released from any confidentiality obligations included in her settlement.
In the week since reports of the allegations first emerged, Cain has denied ever having sexually harassed anyone, describing an innocuous account of making a comment about an employee’s height that he stated led to a frivolous complaint that was settled as a nuisance claim.
Bound by the confidentiality agreement, the woman was not granted to respond to his denials. The group’s decision on Friday frees her from that.
source : thehill.com
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