Second sexual harassment claim against Herman Cain cost $45,000 #p2 #tcot

from http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/03/1032860/-Second-sexual-harassment-claim-against-Herman-Cain-cost-$45,000

Herman Cain's sexual harassment problems:
$80,000 and counting (Jason Reed/Reuters)

Looks like it's going to be another bad day for Herman Cain. Via Politico:

POLITICO has learned that one of the women who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment at the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s received a payout of about $45,000 as part of her settlement – significantly more than the two or three months' salary Cain initially recalled the woman obtained.

The woman who received the approximately $45,000 is the staffer who Cain has acknowledged formally lodged a complaint about his behavior.

Just to refresh your memory, this was Cain on Monday:

If the restaurant association did a settlement, I wasn't even aware of it and I hope it wasn't for much. If there was a settlement, it was handled by some of the other officers at the restaurant association.

Which turned into this:

Maybe three months' salary. I don't remember. It might have been two months. I do remember my general counsel saying we didn't pay all of the money they demanded.

Which on Tuesday became this:

The financial settlement with the accuser "was in the vicinity of 3 to 6 months' severance pay," he said, adding that the payment was "not outside our guidelines for what most people get ... when they leave the Restaurant Association involuntarily."

But on Tuesday night we learned that one of the payouts was actually $35,000—a full year's salary for one of the women who, uh, came up to his chin.

So that's two different women who were each paid a year's salary to go away quietly. In the span of four days, we've gone from "no settlement" to $80,000. And counting ...