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...says he broke an "oral contract" to pay her $4,000 a month for damages following the exposure of their affair in 1990. Cisneros, who reconciled with his wife, denies a contract but admits giving Medlar "intermittent" $4,000 payments as well as $36,000 as a final settlement. The Secretary told TIME he leased a car for Medlar, gave her a $16,000 down payment on a house and paid her daughter's tennis-camp tuition. Medlar says she received no settlement, no car, no tuition...
...severance agreement last November was generous: two lump sums totaling $50,000, six monthly payments averaging about $5,400 each and, if N.A.A.C.P. executive director Benjamin Chavis did not find her a job paying at least $80,000 a year, an additional $250,000. The out-of-court settlement between Chavis and Stansel had remained private and indeed virtually secret until Stansel decided to introduce it into court. Chavis, she said, had not found her the job, and so she was suing him for the $250,000 and publicly charging him with employer discrimination and sexual harassment...
...some members of the N.A.A.C.P. board, however, the truly shocking revelation was that Chavis had agreed to pay Stansel not out of his own money but from the venerable civil rights association's precarious finances. "The board knew nothing about the settlement," said member Anthony Fugett after he heard news last week that the N.A.A.C.P. was being sued along with Chavis. "I'm on the budget committee, and this settlement was never in the budget," said Joseph Madison, a Washington radio talk-show host. "It never showed up on our expense statements." Madison had previously raised concerns about Chavis' financial...
...court harassment settlement outrages the N.A.A.C.P...
...wreak havoc and bloodshed," he said, "and Hizballah's sponsor, Iran," must not be allowed to prevail. If their goal is to halt the moves toward peace, they probably will not succeed. Car bombings and terrorist atrocities now seem irrelevant to a Middle East so close to an overall settlement...