[AOL] A top aide to Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., resigned on Wednesday after a report surfaced of a $400,000 sexual harassment settlement resulting from his time working for Harris at the California Department of Justice in 2016.
Harris' office said in a statement to NBC News that it was unaware of the settlement.
Larry Wallace, a senior adviser to Harris, stepped down after The Sacramento Bee reported about the settlement on Wednesday.
The alleged incident occurred in 2016 when Wallace was working as the director of law enforcement under Harris, who was serving as the California attorney general at the time, the paper reporter.
Lily Adams, a spokeswoman for Harris, confirmed the resignation in a statement to NBC News on Thursday.
"We were unaware of this issue and take accusations of harassment extremely seriously. This evening (Wednesday), Mr. Wallace offered his resignation to the senator and she accepted it," Adams said. "Unaware"? That's total bullshit
Harris, who is currently considering a 2020 presidential run, has been an outspoken advocate against sexual harassment during the #MeToo movement. She was among a group of Democratic women lawmakers who called for the resignation of Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota in December 2017 after he was accused of sexual misconduct.
Harris tweeted at the time, "Sexual harassment and misconduct should not be allowed by anyone and should not occur anywhere." She also introduced a bill this past June to curb workplace harassment.
Wallace's settlement took place in May 2017, after Harris had been sworn-in as senator and he had been hired as a senior adviser, based in Sacramento.
A lawsuit filed on Dec. 30, 2016, when Harris was transitioning from attorney general to senator, alleged that Wallace placed a printer on the floor underneath his desk and ordered his assistant, Danielle Hartley, to crawl under his desk to replace the paper or ink on a daily basis, the Sacramento Bee reported.
It looks as if the 2020 presidential election became a bit more interesting.
While Democrats comb through their entire fleet in an effort to find anyone who may be able to contend with a polarizing, seemingly hard-to-beat incumbent, Republicans are busy making their own personnel decisions.
According to a new report published in Vanity Fair, President Trump and his advisers have been talking about whether Vice President Mike Pence should stay on as the president’s righthand man.
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Vanity Fair? Not exactly a trusted source for insight into the Trump inner circle.
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Summer 2018 report: "Now, half a year since Carter handed over the reins to his surprise-pick successor… silence. And not the kind of silence that issues from respect. ... I listen for the whispers.
This is what media people are whispering: Vanity Fair is disappearing from the radar. In various forms and contexts, I hear the words “disaster,” “awful,” “irrelevant.”
Unfortunately for the magazine’s owner, Condé Nast, this is occurring at a most inauspicious moment. ..."
[The Hill, ht AOSHQ] Just before Thanksgiving, House Republicans amended the list of documents they’d like President Trump to declassify in the Russia investigation. With little fanfare or explanation, the lawmakers, led by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), added a string of emails between the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to their wish list.
Sources tell me the targeted documents may provide the most damning evidence to date of potential abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), evidence that has been kept from the majority of members of Congress for more than two years.
The email exchanges included then-FBI Director James Comey, key FBI investigators in the Russia probe and lawyers in the DOJ’s national security division, and they occurred in early to mid-October, before the FBI successfully secured a FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
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"May," "potential" - if they don't actually DO something in the next few weeks it will be too late.
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Most intelligence officials, such as former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, have embraced the concerns laid out in the Steele dossier of possible ‐ but still unproven ‐ collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
"Possible ‐ but still unproven"...referred to in the intelligence community as unverified information not intelligence. Before information can become 'intelligence' it must be verified (usually by multiple sources) and classified as either reliable or unreliable.
If months and years after the 'information' (Steele dossier) surfaces and is investigated and analyzed, no reliability can be established, the 'information' should be classified as unreliable and discarded.
'Reliable intelligence' is an indicator, it is still not a fact. For example; 'reliable intelligence' may point to Saddam as having had a nuclear capability. Facts my eventually prove otherwise.
Clapper and Brennan are operating in the realm of politics, not intelligence.
[Wash Times] Having a bad fall, Michael? Karma
A Southern California judge has transferred assets including an airplane and a Ferrari from porn actress Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti as part of his divorce, according to court records obtained Thursday.
Orange County Judge Carol Henson on Tuesday ordered some of Avenatti's assets be liquidated and sold for back child and spousal support.
Although the total amount Avenatti owes is unclear, he was previously ordered to pay more than $150,000 a month in child and spousal support.
In Tuesday's order, Henson said Avenatti must pay at least $80,000 to Lisa Storie-Avenatti on top of the transferred assets by Jan. 2.
Among those assets are a 2017 Ferrari GT Spider, five watches including a Rolex that retails for $12,000, a sculpture by famed architect Frank Gehry and a six-seat business jet worth millions. Avenatti's attorney, Matt DeArmey, said the asset transfer is a standard part of divorce cases.
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Too bad Hizzoner stopped at the assets.
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I hope the judge let him keep his pistol and one round of ammo.
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I saw the clip. Not so dumb. She meant, "eventually", like in P2K's time frame. The same time everybody will be free and equal and happy.
I was looking for a unicorn...
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[The Hill, ht AOSHQ] Just before Thanksgiving, House Republicans amended the list of documents they’d like President Trump to declassify in the Russia investigation. With little fanfare or explanation, the lawmakers, led by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), added a string of emails between the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to their wish list.
