Well this muddies the waters considerably. AP has an exclusive story in which it is disclosed that Cain's accuser, trumpeted here, filed another complaint at the next job.
Three years after Karen Kraushaar settled her sexual harassment complaint against Herman Cain and quit the trade association where they worked, she filed another complaint at her new job. She argued that supervisors there unfairly denied her request to work from home after a car accident and accused one of them of circulating a sexually oriented email, The Associated Press has learned.
Interestingly enough her recollection of that incident is not as clear:
She says she considered the immigration service complaint "relatively minor."...Kraushaar said she did not remember details about the complaint and did not remember asking for a payment, a promotion or a fellowship.
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But three former supervisors say the allegations, which did not include a sexual harassment claim, were investigated and treated seriously. Two former supervisors say she initially demanded a settlement of thousands of dollars, a promotion on the federal pay scale, reinstated leave time and a one-year fellowship to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. The promotion itself would have increased her annual salary between $12,000 and $16,000, according to salary tables in 2002 from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
This story does shed some interesting light on the supposedly legitimate victim of Herman Cain. The comments on MSNBC are less than charitable to her in light of these disclosures. I'd be wary of championing her as the truth telling paragon.