Politico: Cain Accuser Was Paid $45,000 Settlement

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Herman Cain said he recalled one of the women who formally accused him of sexual harassment at the National Restaurant Association getting “somewhere in the vicinity of three to six months’ severance pay.”

Politico reports it was quite a bit more than that.

POLITICO has learned that one of the women who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment at the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s received a payout of about $45,000 as part of her settlement – significantly more than the two or three months’ salary Cain initially recalled the woman obtained.

Read it here.

The New York Times already reported another accuser received $35,000.

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