Accused of phony budgeting
David Riemer, running against Walker for County Executive, accuses him of phony budgeting and challenges him to sign a “no surprises, no layoffs” pledge for 2004 in the wake of 280 county employees being laid off this past year. Instead of vetoing the county board’s revision of his proposed budget, Walker signs it while expressing concerns about meeting it. Riemer:
If Walker thought the budget wasn’t balanced, he should have sent it back or used his line-item veto power to alter it. This isn’t leadership, this is showmanship.
$127,500 sexual harrassment payout
Tammy Brevik receives a $127,500 settlement after she sues Palmer, claiming he sexually harassed her when she worked for for him in his Minneapolis dental practice from 1999 to 2005.
I believe my sex was a factor… in that many of Dr Palmer’s comments concerned my breasts, buttocks and genitalia. I also believe that my termination was in retaliation for reporting the conduct because I was terminated the day my lawyer contacted Dr Palmer regarding the harassment.
Palmer denies any wrongdoing but agrees to the payment. He is ordered to take a jurisprudence exam and complete an ethics course.
Rape claim
Green, a California lawyer, appears on the Today show and alleges that Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in the 1970s. Green tells Lauer that Cosby, who had given her pills to combat a fever, drove her to her apartment and began:
groping me and kissing me and touching me and handling me and … taking off my clothes.
According to Green, Cosby left two $100 bills on her coffee table afterwards. Cosby’s lawyer:
Miss Green’s allegations are absolutely false. Mr. Cosby does not know the name Tamara Green or Tamara Lucier [her maiden name], and the incident she describes did not happen. The fact that she may have repeated this story to others is not corroboration.
‘George Bush doesn’t care about black people’
West goes off the script while speaking at the Hurricane for Relief telethon to say that Bush doesn’t care about black people. Standing next to Mike Myers, West vents his frustrations about Bush’s slow response to the hurricane in New Orleans. He also says that America is slow to help the poor, blacks, and the less well off.
I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family, it says they’re looting. See a white family, it says they’re looking for food.
Notch: Yogscast ‘total dicks’
Notch accuses the Yogscast YouTube duo of being rude to kids at Minecon 2011 and acting like they are better than the other speakers at the event:
And they claim they're the reason minecraft is big and that we should thank them more than anyone else in the community. They're total dicks
— notch (@notch) November 21, 2011
The Yogscast does not have time to respond immediately:
EA: ‘Cynical bastards’
Notch criticizes game publisher Electronic Arts for calling a collection of its games on Steam an indie bundle, because they are not an “indie” studio:
EA releases an "indie bundle"? That's not how that works, EA. Stop attempting to ruin everything, you bunch of cynical bastards.
— notch (@notch) May 3, 2012
He also clarifies that he does not consider Mojang to be indie either:
Fwiw, I don't even call Mojang inde any more. Vlambeer is indie. Polytron is indie. Stephen, Ed, Terry, Derek, Tommy and Chris are indie.
— notch (@notch) May 3, 2012
Alleged rape
According to a later police report, Sulkowicz claims that when she and Nungesser start to have consensual sex he hits her across the face, chokes her, and pushes her knees onto her chest and leans on her knees to keep them up. He then grabs her wrists and penetrates her anally. Sulkowicz tells Nungesser to stop, but he does not. She struggles with him and tries to push his arms away, but he keeps going and suddenly stops without ejaculating. Nungesser claims in his later suit that he and Sulkowicz engaged in consensual sex, including vaginal and anal sex, followed by oral intercourse.
Accuses DeRosa of copying Tweets
Keys accuses De Rosa, his boss, of copying his tweets.
.@AntDeRosa please don't copy/paste from my tweets – pic.twitter.com/YKsoErlkoR
— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) April 17, 2013
Learns about allegations
One day before the end of classes, Nungesser receives two new accusations. The first is from Natalie, a former girlfriend alleging he had emotionally and sexually abused her for the duration of that relationship. The second is from Josie, who claims that in April 2012, he had tried to kiss her at a party. Josie had written off the incident as drunken aggression, but after a mutual friend of hers and Nungesser’s tells her that he was participating in a hearing panel related to sexual assault, she contacts the Office of Gender-Based and Sexual Misconduct. She says she remembered thinking:
What if I wasn’t as tall and strong as I am? What if I was really drunk? Those ideas made me very scared for other women.
The Office sends Nungesser an email instructing him to vacate his room at ADP the next day “to ensure the safety of all the parties involved in this matter” and move to another dorm for the few remaining days of the school year.
Accuses Gonis of endangering daughter
Auerbach accuses estranged wife Gonis of endangering their daughter Sadie, saying his wife tried to commit suicide twice in one day: once by cutting her leg open in front of Sadie, and then by trying to burn the house down. Gonis responds by saying the leg gash was due to years of abuse in the marriage, and that the fire was an accident. Auerbach receives temporary custody of his daughter while Gonis gets supervised visitation rights until the judge is “convinced she’s mentally stable and is not putting their daughter at risk.”
Not invited on family trip
Sheen claims Richards asked him not to join her and their two children, Sam and Lola, on their family trip.
more like a feeble "K".
the lie is over.
i'm done
being treated like
a relative with a
one-way ticket.
c#DuhNeese
http://t.co/kPJFEMKgoX— Charlie Sheen (@charliesheen) December 15, 2013
Plagiarism accusation
Clowes accuses LaBeouf of illegally borrowing from his 2007 comic, Justin M. Damiano. The plagiarism went unnoticed until LaBeouf’s short film, Howard Cantour.com, debuted online. Fantagraphics Books Inc., Clowes publisher, calls the film “a complete rip-off,” and that the novelist was never approached by LaBeouf to authorize an adaptation. In an interview with Buzzfeed, Clowes says:
The first I ever heard of the film was this morning when someone sent me a link. I’ve never spoken to or met Mr. LaBeouf. I’ve never even seen one of his films that I can recall — and I was shocked, to say the least, when I saw that he took the script and even many of the visuals from a very personal story I did six or seven years ago and passed it off as his own work. I actually can’t imagine what was going through his mind.
In response to the accusation, the short film is blocked from view on Vimeo yet continues to be available on BuzzFeed in its entirety.
Caught on camera using racist rhyme
Clarkson is caught using N-word on camera while filming Top Gear, sparking a racism controversy. In an unseen footage which was edited out of the show, Clarkson can be heard chanting:
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe…
He then mumbles:
Catch a n***** by his toe
Slope comment
Clarkson is accused of racism for using the word ‘slope,’ an offensive racist term used for people of east Asian descent on the Burma Special. On seeing an Asian man cross his makeshift bridge:
That is a proud moment, but there’s a slope on it
Faster Horses Festival rape
A 25-year-old woman claims that she was attacked by three men,when she was separated from her friends after leaving McGraw’s July 18th show that was held at the Faster Horses Festival. The incident reportedly occurred in the parking lot of the Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn. Police say that the rape was reported at 12:10 a.m:
She was attacked in the dark near the parking area, and there didn’t happen to be anyone around in that parking area. She was taken to Allegiance (Health) where they checked for injuries, and a rape kit was done and sent to the Michigan State Police lab to check for DNA.
Man claims child sexual abuse
James Safechuck, claims that Michael Jackson sexually abused him as a child. The 36-year-old alleges the was abused by Jackson after the two appeared together in a late ’80s Pepsi commercial when Safechuck was 10 years old. He claims that Jackson had allegedly “brainwashed” him into believing that the incidents of sexual abuse were “acts of love,” and that, in 1988, during the Bad tour, Safechuck regularly shared Jackson’s bed and that the abuse continued until he reached puberty.
Howard Weitzman, an attorney for the Jackson estate, responded by saying that Safechuck’s claims should be dismissed.
Mr. Safechuck’s request to file a late claim against the Jackson Estate so he can recover money from Michael’s beneficiary will hopefully be rejected. This is a person that made his claim five years after Michael died, more than 20 years after the incidents supposedly happened and has given sworn testimony that Michael never did anything inappropriate to him.
Safechuck’s petition is scheduled to be heard Sept. 4.
N.Y. man accused of terror recruiting
30-year-old Mufid Elfgeeh of Rochester, N.Y., is indicted on three counts of attempting to provide material support and resources to ISIS. A Yemeni-born U.S. dual citizen, he is one of the first people to be charged by the U.S. with recruiting for ISIS. Court documents show that Elfeegh tried to raise money to enable a Yemeni man to join ISIS including allegedly sending the man $600 to travel from Yemen to Syria. An FBI affidavit says that in April, Elfgeeh traveled to Buffalo with an FBI informant to get a passport for the undercover agent. He suggested that ISIS would use the informant to ‘operate a cannon, act as a sniper and/or build bombs.’ A tweet from his home computer:
al-Qaida [sic] said it loud and clear; we are fighting the American invasion and their hegemony over the earth and the people.
He is also charged with one count of attempting to kill ‘officers and employees of the United States,’ two counts or possession of an unregistered firearm silencer, and a count of possession of firearms and silencers in furtherance of a violent crime. He is scheduled to appear in court for arraignment Thursday. Assistant Federal Public Defender Mark Hosken says that he will enter a not guilty plea in response to all the charges.
‘Shames thin women’
Trainor is criticized for her single, All About That Bass.The artist has been allegedly accused of “shaming” thin woman in the song:
Yeah, I’m still getting flak. It’ll come for as long as the song lives, but for the most part people are relating to the self-acceptance part of it, which is amazing, because that was my point.
Accused of rape in op-ed
Cosby is accused of rape by Bowman in an op-ed article titled, Bill Cosby raped me. Why did it take 30 years for people to believe my story? in The Washington Post. In the article, Bowman says Cosby assaulted her several times in 1985.
Cosby won my trust as a 17-year-old aspiring actress in 1985, brainwashed me into viewing him as a father figure, and then assaulted me multiple times. In one case, I blacked out after having dinner and one glass of wine at his New York City brownstone, where he had offered to mentor me and discuss the entertainment industry. When I came to, I was in my panties and a man’s t-shirt, and Cosby was looming over me. I’m certain now that he drugged and raped me. But as a teenager, I tried to convince myself I had imagined it. I even tried to rationalize it: Bill Cosby was going to make me a star and this was part of the deal. The final incident was in Atlantic City, where we had traveled for an industry event. I was staying in a separate bedroom of Cosby’s hotel suite, but he pinned me down in his own bed while I screamed for help. I’ll never forget the clinking of his belt buckle as he struggled to pull his pants off. I furiously tried to wrestle from his grasp until he eventually gave up, angrily called me “a baby” and sent me home to Denver.
While I am grateful for the new attention to Cosby’s crimes, I must ask my own questions: Why wasn’t I believed? Why didn’t I get the same reaction of shock and revulsion when I originally reported it? Why was I, a victim of sexual assault, further wronged by victim blaming when I came forward? The women victimized by Bill Cosby have been talking about his crimes for more than a decade. Why didn’t our stories go viral?
Alleges rape by Cosby
Cosby is accused of rape in an essay written by Joan Tarshis. In the essay, published in Hollywood Elsewhere, Tarshis alleges that Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1969.
I had heard and/or strongly suspected I was not the only white girl he had drugged and raped but I never had any proof. No one began talking until 2004. And though I knew I should say something, I still felt ashamed. Ashamed that I didn’t earlier. In any event now, as more and more of his rape victims have come forward, all telling similar stories, the time is right to join them.