Gloria Allred’s
Blunder on Roy Moore’s Yearbook Challenge
by Joel B. Pollak 16 Nov 2017
Gloria Allred is a highly accomplished, if controversial, lawyer
who is admired — or reviled — for her sensational representation of
women who are alleged victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment. Yet on Wednesday she
committed a major blunder when she declined a public invitation by the
attorney representing Roy Moore, Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Alabama,
to have a key piece of evidence examined by independent experts.
Earlier that afternoon, attorney Phillip L. Jauregui
questioned some of
the claims by Allred’s client, Beverly Young Nelson, who emerged Monday to
accuse Moore of sexual assault several decades ago. In particular, Jauregui
said that Nelson’s claim that she had no subsequent contact with Moore was
false, because he had adjudicated her divorce in 1999. And he challenged a
signature in Nelson’s high school yearbook that she claimed was Moore’s.
Jauregui noted that handwriting experts “can’t look at a
copy on the Internet … they’ve got to look at an original.” He demanded
that Allred release the yearbook to a “neutral custodian” so that a
“professional expert” could examine it to determine whether the signature was
genuine — or, as he contended, a “fraud.” He said that Allred would be free to
send her own handwriting expert to examine the yearbook and the signature for
herself.
Allred then called
into CNN, reaching Wolf Blitzer live on The Situation
Room. She said that she would be willing to submit the yearbook to “an
independent expert or experts” — but only once her client and Moore had
testified under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate
Select Committee on Ethics before the election. She would not agree to
have the yearbook examined otherwise, claiming “we’re not going to be
distracted.”
That was a major mistake. By trying to use the yearbook —
the critical piece of evidence in establishing Nelson’s credibility — as
leverage to force a Senate hearing before the election, Allred seemed to put
politics ahead of the truth. Worse, she opened herself and her client to
questions about whether they have something to hide. Whatever the truth of
Jauregui’s claims that the yearbook signature is a “fraud,” Allred lent those
claims greater credibility.
Allred also gave Moore’s supporters a reason to stand
behind him. It will be difficult, at best, to discover what really
happened three or four decades ago. All the public can rely on is the
credibility of Moore and his accusers today. And while Moore has given
inconsistent answers, all he needs to do to survive until Election Day is to
create some doubt about the allegations. Allred gave him that opportunity — to
the detriment of her client and other accusers.
Let’s connect the dots:
Gloria Allred
Gloria Allred is a highly accomplished, if controversial, lawyer
who is admired — or reviled — for her sensational representation of women
who are alleged victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment,
and Lisa Bloom’s mother.
Note: Lisa Bloom is Gloria Allred’s daughter, a legal
analyst for the CBS News, and was Harvey Weinstein’s adviser.
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14, 2017
Harvey Weinstein’s
adviser was Lisa Bloom, a funder for
the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation, a co-founder & co-chairman for the Weinstein Company, and is a director at the Robin Hood Foundation.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Robin Hood Foundation.
Jeff
Zucker is a director emeritus for the Robin
Hood Foundation, and the president of CNN
Worldwide.
CNN Worldwide
is a division of CNN.
Wolf Blitzer is an
anchor for CNN.
Emma Bloomberg
was a chief of staff for the Robin Hood
Foundation, is a director at the Robin
Hood Foundation, and Michael R.
Bloomberg’s daughter.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a donor for the Robin
Hood Foundation, is Emma Bloomberg’s
father, and the founder of Bloomberg LP.
David Rhodes was
the head of US television for Bloomberg
LP, and is the president of CBS News.
Lisa
Bloom is a legal analyst for the CBS
News, Gloria Allred’s daughter, and
was Harvey Weinstein’s adviser.
Gloria Allred is Lisa Bloom’s mother, and is a
highly accomplished, if controversial, lawyer who is admired — or
reviled — for her sensational representation of women who are
alleged victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment.
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