• House Secretly Paid $115,000 to Settle Harassment Claims Over Four Years
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[URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/us/politics/house-secret-settlements-sexual-harassment-congress.html"]source[/URL] [QUOTE]The House of Representatives secretly paid $115,000 to settle three sexual harassment claims between 2008 and 2012, Representative Gregg Harper of Mississippi, the chairman of the House Administration Committee, said Tuesday. The figure includes $85,000 paid in 2010 to settle claims brought by young men who said that Representative Eric J. Massa, Democrat of New York, had groped them, according to a person familiar with that settlement. The figure brings to $199,000 the amount paid out of a fund controlled by Congress’s secretive Office of Compliance since 2008 to settle a total of four sexual harassment claims, under a confidential procedure that most lawmakers say they did not know existed until recently. Mr. Harper released the new figures on Tuesday as part of an ongoing review by his committee, which is working on overhauling the way sexual harassment claims are handled in Congress. “As I have stated from the beginning of this review, one case of sexual harassment is one case too many,” Mr. Harper said in a prepared statement. “We must create a culture within our Capitol Hill community that instills in every employee and employer, new and old, that there is no place for sexual harassment in the halls of Congress.”[/QUOTE]
'Office of Compliance' sounds ominous good to know we've spent over 200k for hush money to protect the creepers in congress
[QUOTE=TheFishyG;53023671]'Office of Compliance' sounds ominous[/QUOTE] Compliance is a general term for departments that bridge the gap between regulatory agencies and legal teams, acting as policy developers and 'enforcers' on the regulatory side and risk managers or 'gatekeepers' of sensitive operations on the legal side. Lots of large companies have them, and dispute resolution is often a key part of their responsibilities. Nothing to be afraid of. t. financial regulatory compliance surveillance agent
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