Herman Cain: The payoff was only two or three months' salary. Only three! Or six. Or ...
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Herman 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.
Herman Cain a few hours later:
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.
Herman Cain today:
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."
So in the span of 24 hours:
- He knows nothing about a settlement.
- Okay, he knows about a settlement, but it was only two to three months' salary.
- Okay, that settlement he didn't know about yesterday, but then remembered it was only two to three months' salary, was actually three to six months.
You know, at the current rate of Herman's recollecting, he's about a week from admitting that okay, yeah, he raped and killed a few girls and ate their livers with some nice chianti and used their skins to make a nice winter coat for his wife—who comes up to his chin, you know—and paid off their families with two or three or six months' pay and a lifetime supply of pizza to keep it on the down low. But that's it. Story's over, nothing to see here. Now let's talk about that 9-9-9 plan ...