Sharon Bialek, Herman Cain Accuser, Speaks Alongside Attorney Gloria Allred At Press Conference (VIDEO)

Sharon Bialek, the fourth woman to come out and make sexual harassment allegations against Herman Cain, appeared alongside her attorney Gloria Allred at a press conference on Monday.

According to Bialek, the Republican presidential candidate exhibited inappropriate behavior when he was serving as head of the National Restaurant Association more than a decade ago.

Bialek said the alleged incident in question occurred down the street from the NRA headquarters. Describing what happened, she said, "Instead of going into the offices, he suddenly reached over and put his hand on my leg, up my skirt, and towards my genitals." She recalled that when she protested the advances, Cain said, "You want a job, right?"

Bialek alleged that Cain also "grabbed [her] head and brought it towards his crotch." She said that she was "shocked" by the behavior.

After losing her job, Bialek allegedly turned to Cain for help. Allred said on Monday, "Mr. Cain instead decided to try to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package."

According to Bialek, the alleged incident occurred at a bar in the nation's capital in 1997. She said Cain worked to arrange a "palatial suite" for her at a hotel and told her, "I upgraded you."

Bialek said, "I'm coming forward to give a face and a voice to the women." Three other women have leveled sexual harassment allegations against Cain, though their names have not been publicly disclosed.

The New York Times reports:

In an interview after Ms. Bialek’s news conference, Joel P. Bennett, a lawyer for one of Mr. Cain’s anonymous accusers, said that Ms. Bialek’s claims were “very similar” in nature to the incident that occurred between his client and Mr. Cain.

The Cain campaign was quick to come out with a statement on the accusations, calling the charges of sexual harassment "false."

"Just as the country finally begins to refocus on our crippling $15 trillion national debt and the unacceptably high unemployment rate, now activist celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred is bringing forth more false accusations against the character of Republican front-runner Herman Cain," said the presidential hopeful's campaign. "All allegations of harassment against Mr. Cain are completely false. Mr. Cain has never harassed anyone. Fortunately the American people will not allow Mr. Cain’s bold "999 Plan," clear foreign policy vision and plans for energy independence to be overshadowed by these bogus attacks."

Comments

[Seymourhiney]

10:27 PM on 11/13/2011

There is a distinct difference between Herman Cain, and Newt Gingrich. The women they sexually harassed, Cain paid them off, and Newt married them.

[momsense]

06:48 AM on 11/13/2011

Gloria Allred is nothing but a feminist wh@@re promoting invented victimization for profit. She's a Demobutt patrtisan out to destroy a good man who doesn't fit the plantation mentality proscribed for minorities by the Demobutt Party and the rest of the professional victimization promoters, in order to manipulate the Demobutt vote. She ought to slither back under her rock and disappear.

[Seymourhiney]

10:24 PM on 11/13/2011

Since no other candidate, from either party has been accused of sexual harasment, or paid claims, perhaps you have you head buried in the sand or, HUA.

[Brane]

09:31 PM on 11/17/2011

You misspelled 'nonsense' there, you know.

[smiththomas]

05:32 PM on 11/12/2011

Alred being there tells it all

[willowraven]

01:45 PM on 11/10/2011

1 could be a misunderstanding, 2 there is a problem 3 and more he did it. No if and or buts he did it.

[AverageJoeSixPac]

01:04 AM on 11/12/2011

Where did you find THAT in the Constitution? And no, you will never become a judge thank God

[troutster]

01:43 PM on 11/10/2011

For Cain, the end has come. He's not going to be able to raise money with all these allegations hanging over his head; and even if he won the repub nomination by some divine miracle, he's still unelectable in the general.

For Perry, the end has come. He's shown his true intellect...which may be o.k. with the repub base since all they want is a guy who really loves jesus with all his heart. But independents aren't gonna be o.k. with mindless religiosity. (As a dem, I'd love to see Obama debate Perry. Wouldn't that be a hoot?)

Pretty much leaves only Romney. He's the only one who hasn't made a mess of things.

[Jazzbeau]

11:06 AM on 11/12/2011

Don't forget "the Grinch." Romney is not electable primarily because of the Fundy distaste for his wacky religion but also for his flip flops and record of saying whatever he thinks the base wants to hear.

Disastrous as he would be, Gingrich, as a 'compromise' candidate, is the only one with a chance, however slim, to unseat Obama.

[momsense]

09:34 AM on 11/13/2011

If that's the case, how come he raised 6 million dollars since the beginning of the Demobutt smear campaign?

[troutster]

01:39 PM on 11/13/2011

I dunno. Maybe I didn't divine the goat intestines right. See I thought when the liver laid over the bladder...

[Seymourhiney]

10:25 PM on 11/13/2011

Because the base of the Republican Party are idiots. Cain will not be on any ticket.

[el patone]

01:21 PM on 11/10/2011

The accusers made unprovable complaints.The National Restaurant Association paid settlements. Although the public will probably never learn the details beyond these facts, the Republican's subsequent attacks on a single mother who filed for bankruptcy provides keen insight into the type of leadership they are capable of providing.

[buildingsuffolk]

01:16 PM on 11/10/2011

I don't know yet whom I will support in the Presidential election, however what I do know is that if it wasn't important for these four alleged victims to come forward when the alleged action took place then it is not important now - except that they layed in wait until their allegeded offender went on to be a public figure and now they zoom in for their brand of revenge - I am bored with this type of behavior.

[lcovert]

05:02 PM on 11/11/2011

Blame the victims... very klassy.

[buildingsuffolk]

04:25 PM on 11/12/2011

Why did the "victim" wait 8 years to come forward - real interest in justice.

[momsense]

06:31 PM on 11/13/2011

What would huff po know about class? They're too into smear campaigns and innuendos without any proof being provoded..

[buildingsuffolk]

04:26 PM on 11/12/2011

And another thing - why can't she recount from memory what happened to her? Why did she need to read from a written statement?

[LiberalSimpletons]

12:41 PM on 11/10/2011

Oddly, not one of these accusers filed a complaint with the eeoc when the supposed harassment occurred. The only two that have put their names out there have both been shown to have either a habit of accusing employers or are in such financial straights that it's pretty obvious they are looking for a payday now.
It's equally obvious that Huffpost wants to help keep the distraction alive by printing the same story from 3 days ago without any new information coming to light.....

[LibRule]

12:51 PM on 11/10/2011

http://www­.smh.com.a­u/world/ca­in-denies-­then-admit­s-harassme­nt-claims-­20111101-1­mtss.html
''I am unaware of any settlement­. I hope it wasn't for much, because I didn't do anything.'­'

But in subsequent interviews­, Mr Cain changed tack. He told Fox News that one complainan­t had received a payout of ''maybe three months' salary, something like that''.
He is a liar- condemned by his own words.

[el patone]

01:03 PM on 11/10/2011

Drawing conclusions based on assumptions and opinions -- as you have done with the accusers -- is equally distracting.

[LiberalSimpletons]

07:27 PM on 11/10/2011

Actually, the information I stated about the accusers is factual. You see, facts are what you get when you start digging and don't just take some persons word for something. Feel free, dig around see what you find ;)

[LindaCON]

12:35 PM on 11/10/2011

Anyone associated with Gloria automatically looses credibility IMO.

[FreedomMan]

12:21 PM on 11/10/2011

Power perverts come in all colors . . .

[oldhorsema]

12:00 PM on 11/10/2011

Cain is being bought and paid for by the Koch brothers who have billions to waste trying to buy useless Herman Cain a presidency.

[oldhorsema]

11:46 AM on 11/10/2011

Cain is so innocent that in addition to the four women charging Cain with sexual harrassment, Cain paid one of them $35000 with he condition that she could not testifyagainst him.

[LiberalSimpletons]

12:44 PM on 11/10/2011

Cain payed noone anything, the NRA did and he wasn't a part of any settlement/severance. Which makes more sense to the NRA, spend hundreds of thousands to litigate a false claim to prove it was false or pay tens of thousands to just end the whole discussion and have the false accuser sign an agreement to not bring it up again (otherwise what stops them from bringing it up over and over and over to keep getting fresh payoffs?).

[LibRule]

12:55 PM on 11/10/2011

Morning: ''I am unaware of any settlement­. I hope it wasn't for much, because I didn't do anything.'­'

Afternoon: he tells Fox News that one complainan­t had received a payout of ''maybe three months' salary, something like that''.
He is a liar- condemned by his own words. And people who believe him ARE simpletons.

[momsense]

10:26 AM on 11/13/2011

Sorry--check your facts--it was the National Restaurant Asociation, not Cain personally and it was supposedly severance pay( their words) to get rid of her.

[thepayrollguy]

09:40 AM on 11/10/2011

I am surprised Dims are up this early....did your welfare checks come today?

[oldhorsema]

11:48 AM on 11/10/2011

It wasn't welfare checks, the Democrats are stil laughing over your presidential candidate Rick Perry making a fool of himself last night

[thepayrollguy]

12:39 PM on 11/10/2011

Sorry to inform you but I do not consider Rick Perry "my" presidential candidate as much as I dont consider Osama my president.

[FreedomMan]

12:22 PM on 11/10/2011

Robofoxer

[thepayrollguy]

09:26 AM on 11/10/2011

This tramp is lying through her teath! She doesn't even know her story without having to read from a piece of paper! I could tell you exactly what happened if I went through and experience like that without having to use a piece of paper! This witch wanted her 15 minutes of fame and she alsmost got it. Her story is a load of BS!

[FreedomMan]

12:23 PM on 11/10/2011

Bitter, Bitter, Bitter . . .

[willowraven]

01:50 PM on 11/10/2011

tramp ?? there are 4 women accusing him. Hello can you count?

[ronaldrealist66]

07:06 PM on 11/11/2011

How many people are accusing President Obama being a poor leader? When you done counting get back too me!!!

[AverageJoeSixPac]

01:46 AM on 11/12/2011

Hello do you remember these four women?

Gennifer Flowers, Juanita Broaddric, Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Monica Lewenski?
back then your tune was quite different wasn't it. you were probably burning up the boards with " Its just about sex, nobody cares, and what Clinton does in his private life is none of our business, and remember this one? why are Republicans so obsessed with sex? and I'll bet you were right up there beating that drum as hard as you could........Hyprocrite ,,,,,,,

Definition of HYPOCRITE

1: a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion
2: a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings

my example of a Hyprocrite is a Liberal who flaps his jaws without realizing that someday he will have to eat his own words.....

[Michael Steaphens]

02:14 AM on 11/10/2011

If this stuff happened over a decade ago,why is she now coming forward?I smell a dirty rat!

[LibRule]

12:58 PM on 11/10/2011

Uh- because a sexist is running for president.

[Michael Steaphens]

01:49 AM on 11/11/2011

Still doesn't answer the question.And did you and many others in this thread give Bill Clinton the same treatment with his scandals?

[lcovert]

05:11 PM on 11/11/2011

Worse... misogynist and sexual predator.

[willowraven]

01:52 PM on 11/10/2011

Well take a shower, but besides that they came forward to stop this kind of person form becoming pres. And thank God for them.

[AverageJoeSixPac]

02:02 AM on 11/12/2011

And thank God that you will never be in a position to act in a court of law. I don't think a shower will help you at all.