A woman who settled a sexual harassment complaint against GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain in 1999 complained three years later at her next job about unfair treatment. Karen Kraushaar, 55, filed the complaint while working as a spokeswoman at the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the Justice Department in late 2002 or early 2003, with the assistance of her lawyer, Joel Bennett, who also handled her earlier sexual harassment complaint against Cain in 1999. Three former supervisors familiar with Kraushaar's complaint, which did not include a claim of sexual harassment, described it for the AP under condition of anonymity because the matter was handled internally by the agency and was not public.
To settle the complaint at the immigration service, Kraushaar initially demanded thousands of dollars in payment, a reinstatement of leave she used after the accident earlier in 2002, promotion on the federal pay scale and a one-year fellowship to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, according to a former supervisor familiar with the complaint.
| I don't get it: when you file a complaint like this, first you have to prove the allegation, and then you move on to compensation, which is usually cash or rectifying the wrong (e.g., you get the promotion you were denied). Does the allegation include a claim that she didn't get to go to the Kennedy School when otherwise she would have? If not, why demand that? Seems like our Karen is into demanding big-time compensation for small-time wrongs (if she was wronged in the first place). |