Herman Cain Lawyer Lin Wood: New Accusers Should 'Think Twice'

Herman Cain lawyer Lin Wood, who spoke at a Tuesday press conference defending the Republican presidential candidate against allegations of sexual harassment, said others should "think twice" before making accusations, in an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

"I'm not here to scare anyone off," said the high-profile Atlanta lawyer, referring to the prospect of new accusers. "[However] they should think twice anyway." He added that the campaign had not thought about bringing legal action against the women, at least for now.

Wood defended Richard Jewell, who was falsely accused in the Atlanta 1996 Olympics bombing. He also was hired by the parents of JonBenet Ramsey in a libel suit against a book publisher who alleged the mother killed their daughter, and former Rep. Gary Condit (D-Calif.), who was connected with the murder of Chandra Levy.

Another high-profile lawyer, Gloria Allred, agreed to represent Sharon Bialek without a fee, when the woman accused Cain Monday of groping her in 1997.

Karen Kraushaar also went public with sexual harassment allegations against Cain after being identified by iPad-only news outlet The Daily Tuesday. Unlike Bialek, she received a $45,000 settlement from the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s after filing a workplace complaint.

Kraushaar's attorney, Joel P. Bennett, said she would like to hold a a press conference with the other three women who have accused Cain of sexual harassment, adding that she would come forward with Bialek if the other women choose not to participate.

Cain, meanwhile, fended off the allegations in Wednesday night's debate. "I value my character and my integrity more than anything else," he said. "Over the last nine days, the voters have voted with their dollars, and they're saying they don't care about the character assassination."

Cain is continuing his campaign after the allegations and will visit Michigan tea party groups Thursday.

Comments

[John Hodgson 1111]

04:37 PM on 11/15/2011

Yea and Herman Cain is the perfect representative of Republicanism, Money makes Right.

[Conjoe]

11:20 PM on 11/14/2011

Who exactly is he threatening here? Is it the women who are going to come forward and accuse Cain of inappropriate behavior or the women who have actually been victims of his inappropriate behavior and have yet to come forward or both?

[1frank]

12:38 PM on 11/14/2011

As a President of the N.R.A let's ,make ir very clear the stand of that organisation against worker , if they could have workers pay to come to work they would have done it a long time ago and this is factual . A liar on top of an oppressive organisation it remind me of Germany in the 30's

[1frank]

12:32 PM on 11/14/2011

sorry got side tracked :
Wait a second accuser should think twice before making any claim against cain ????
are those threats ?
that's who we have running fo President !
No wonder American Polititian are the world laughing stock .

[1frank]

12:22 PM on 11/14/2011

Wait a second accuser should think twice ??? and that's what we have running for President ?
No wonder the USA polititians have become the lasughingb stock of the world.

[limstillme]

08:28 PM on 11/12/2011

I posted that the accusations against Cain have not been proven to be true but I did not state they were not true. I pointed out that there are some women that will make false statements if they can make monetary gains by doing so. I have not said they were false statements and I did not say Cain's denial was unquestionably true. Nearly all the lefties are hyped up into a lynch mob frenzy. Practically none of them are willing to even consider that Cain may be innocent. I guess they think I'm just not using my head, I'm just not thinking for my self if I don't grab a torch and a rope and follow them.

[John Hodgson 1111]

04:45 PM on 11/15/2011

Sorry Cain is not innocent, have you noticed yet that all the accused women fit a common profile, which is White Blonde Women with a Shapely Figure. that is not a random group of women, but a selected group of women that Herman Cain used his authority to chase and grope.

Please keep your straw thinking to yourself as well 'I posed that the accusations against Cain have not been proven to be true but I did not state they were not true' is basic doubletalk, because later in this written statement you state 'Nearly all the lefties are hyped up in a lynch mob frenzy' which is a statement inferring that they are wrong, and you must be right.

Boring, Herman Cain was a part of a settlement, what part of a settlement do you not understand, its a means of paying off a person not to go to court. and a defensive lawyer only will do that when they have a losing argument, meaning they cannot disprove that Cain didn't assault the accuser. You don't give money to someone for nothing.

[limstillme]

07:03 PM on 11/15/2011

John, I can tell by your post that you hold a Phd in T.V. Psychology with a strong minor in BullHocky. Even if someone with the qualifications to make such deductions were to testify to that in a court of law, that alone would not be enough to convict him, unless of course it was a liberal kangaroo court. I will repeat what I said in a simplified form, maybe you will be able to understand it. I pointed out that the accusations have not been proven to be true, that is to say, Cain's guilt has not been proven yet. I also pointed out that I have not closed my mind to the possibility that he may be guilty. I did not think that would confuse anyone but you proved me wrong about that.

[limstillme]

07:43 PM on 11/15/2011

John, I need to clarify a couple more simple statements that confused you. My statement concerning the lefties being hyped up into a lynch frenzy does not indicate they are wrong, it indicates they don't care if he is guilty or innocent, they just want to lynch him, politically speaking. It's not just Cain they want to, again politically speaking, lynch, it's anyone and everyone who opposes BHO. Concerning payoffs, I am not sure if you are really so naive that you don't know about them, or if you are so intent in believing Cain is guilty that you refuse to accept reality. The fact is, sometimes people pay off people who can cause trouble, even if they do not have a legitimate complaint. In the cases of a woman claiming sexual harassment, sexual abuse, or rape, our society considers them guilty, period! In some cases, the woman's complaint is nothing more, and nothing less than extortion or an act of hate. Sometimes, the target can find proof so compelling that people have to admit they are innocent.

[jowills8]

03:48 PM on 11/12/2011

Herman you have a cool hat. All you need is a cain and a coat. You will be ready for the next pimp convention.

[wyndchas78]

01:19 PM on 11/12/2011

Cain's bringing out his pimp hand to go with that hat.

[limstillme]

11:04 AM on 11/12/2011

The problem with a man being accused of sexual harassment by a woman, they are considered guilty with no rebuttal allowed, well, at least when the accused is a conservative and the leftist have their way about it. What's wrong with the lawyer of a victim of character assignation issuing a warning to anyone that is considering making false accusations? True, it's not YET proven that the previous claims are false, but it's not proven that they are true either. The lefties are saying his lawyer has no right to take the position that his client is innocent. Typical of liberals!

[John Hodgson 1111]

04:48 PM on 11/15/2011

Nobody say the women are democratic, Nobody said that they are conservative. If you knew what your talking about, you would not have written that statement. Boring......keep the proof to yourself about 'previous claims' a settlement was reached and money was paid. this is done for a reason; unlike your reasoning skills of blame.

[Seven Teenatheart]

12:06 AM on 11/12/2011

Mr Cain has faced sexual harassment charges, which were settled but he was NOT vindicated:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/67194.html
Has blamed an ongoing list of people for leaking the valid sexual harassment story (trying to keep these in order, please tell me if they're not):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/02/herman-cain-curt-anderson-sexual-harassment-allegations_n_1072482.html
http://www.politicalforum.com/current-events/215096-cain-now-blames-perry-perry-blames-romney-3rd-woman-accuser-surfaces.html
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/cain-blames-democrat-machine-for-allegations-of-sexual-harassment.php
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/11/herman-cain-politico-bait-sexual-harassment_n_1089001.html
Herman Cain denies knowing one of the women accusing him of sexual harassment, then is caught in the lie:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57320827-503544/herman-cain-i-dont-even-remember-sharon-bialek/
http://www.mediaite.com/online/report-herman-cain-encountered-sharon-bialek-at-recent-tea-party-conference/
Cain advisor invents story about Cain sexual harassment accuser's son working for Politico. Debunked:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/09/mark-block-herman-cain-politico-clains_n_1083427.html
Cain attorney makes barely veiled threat against more women who might come forward:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/10/herman-cain-sexual-harassment-lin-wood_n_1086022.html

I think this is most of it.
Please let me know if I've missed something you think should be here.

[MCWAY]

08:59 PM on 11/12/2011

Cain WAS vindicated in the investigation done on him. Kraushaar's lawyer had acknowledged that:

Bennett said Wednesday that Kraushaar, who has worked in communications for the federal government since her departure from the association, complained in 1999 of multiple incidents of alleged sexual harassment by Cain.

The restaurant association said it investigated the accusations at the time and Cain denied them, Bennett noted. However, he said an internal investigation by the association of alleged wrongdoing by its president was likely to have been less effective than an outside investigation would have been.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/09/politics/cain-allegations/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

[Seven Teenatheart]

06:19 PM on 11/15/2011

No. I read the article, including the passage that you cited.
All it says is that an outside investigation may have been more thorough, that he was investigated, and that he denied the allocations.
Nowhere does it say that he was cleared from suspicion of wrong doing.

[Transit]

09:53 PM on 11/11/2011

What's he going to do? Shoot them in the knee? That's a pretty sick statement for a lawyer or anyone for that matter to make.

[scottsdalebubbe]

06:57 PM on 11/11/2011

There must be other women if this guy is giving a blanket warning. If it had happened to me, I'd hire Gloria Allred in the blink of an eye. She is stronger and more focused than all these good ole boys put together.

[limstillme]

11:11 AM on 11/12/2011

It's more than "other women". There are millions of women and thousands of them would make all kinds of accusations, if the price is right.

[awakeallready]

12:30 PM on 11/12/2011

You appear to be ready to make all kinds of accusations for free.

[John Hodgson 1111]

04:54 PM on 11/15/2011

Do you live under a Rock?, how do you get FOX News to be received; when your living under a Rock? Do you believe that 'Money is Right' which replaces 'Might is Right'? Or do you believer that 'Repeating Something of a Opinion, make it a Fact Eventually?...'I say this over and over again, then you will give up and make it a fact' thinking?

I can imagine a person yelling 'I say its true, then it must be true' ad nausea.....Oh wait a moment that the motto of the Republican debate huh 'I say its true, then it must be true' spinning and spewing words. Where is the exorcist when you need one?

[freddsky]

03:38 PM on 11/11/2011

What is really fascinating here is how those tricky Dems got women to file bogus claims and take settlements all those years ago? They MUST HAVE KNOWN that Cain would one day run for President! I'll bet these are the same "Democrat Tricksters" who put those phony ads in the Honolulu newspaper as well as forged that birth certificate, too. Kenyan, communist Muslims, every one of them! It only took Herman two weeks to figure out it wasn't Perry or Romney but those darned Dems! Imagine how much longer it would take if actual facts were required?

[Sue Hamlin]

07:42 PM on 11/11/2011

I've come to realize Cain supporters simply don't believe there is such a thing as sexual harrassment. They couldn't and still say the things they do.

[freddsky]

10:50 PM on 11/11/2011

They believed that Anthony Weiner committed sexual harassment by broadcasting his own body parts over the net. Yet they don't believe that placing one's hands on a woman without her permission would also qualify? What they really believe is "it's OK if you're a Republican" even if they would rather die than come out and say so. Hence the tendency to latch onto absurd conspiracy theories, i.e. it was Perry's doing on Tuesday, the Dems' on Wednesday. Cain doesn't really believe that garbage; he just wants his supporters to do so.

[prlabella]

03:34 PM on 11/11/2011

Caine says the voters have spoken with their money. Does that speak to the mental abilities of those voters? I haven't sent a nickel and if I had I would have requested a refund. I don't know, does the law of averages apply here? One complaint or even two--but four and maybe more complaints should signal something amiss. Think Penn State. Cain is acused ofnhis dealing with adults rather than children but come on. Four complaints and at least one payoff. He's done for me.

[limstillme]

11:22 AM on 11/12/2011

Right! Just for to be fair to good'ol bill clinton, Cain should get the same as he did.

[wyndchas78]

01:19 PM on 11/12/2011

At least Clinton had a good ole time consensually with his women. His were AFFAIRS not Harassment allegations like Cain.

[John Hodgson 1111]

04:57 PM on 11/15/2011

Bill Clinton had a Fan that blown his presidential member out of proportion, Cain did not have a Fan but a PLAN, deny, deny, deny plan. when chasing a White Women wearing a Short Skirt.

[juliebird]

03:20 PM on 11/11/2011

What a thug. I hope karma shoves a stiletto heel up his nose some day.