Prominent lawyer sought donor cash for two Trump accusers

superbeets · Dec 15, 2017

[FONT=&quot]A well-known women’s rights lawyer sought to arrange compensation from donors and tabloid media outlets for women who made or considered making sexual misconduct allegations against Donald Trumpduring the final months of the 2016 presidential race, according to documents and interviews.

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[FONT=&quot]California lawyer Lisa Bloom’s efforts included offering to sell alleged victims’ stories to TV outlets in return for a commission for herself, arranging a donor to pay off one Trump accuser’s mortgage and attempting to secure a six-figure payment for another woman who ultimately declined to come forward after being offered as much as $750,000, the clients told The Hill.

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[FONT=&quot]The women’s accounts were chronicled in contemporaneous contractual documents, emails and text messages reviewed by The Hill, including an exchange of texts between one woman and Bloom that suggested political action committees supporting Hillary Clinton were contacted during the effort.

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[FONT=&quot]Bloom, who has assisted dozens of women in prominent harassment cases and also defended film executive Harvey Weinstein earlier this year, represented four women considering making accusations against Trump last year. Two went public, and two declined.[/FONT]
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superbeets · Dec 15, 2017

[FONT=&quot]In a statement to The Hill, Bloom acknowledged she engaged in discussions to secure donations for women who made or considered making accusations against Trump before last year’s election.

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[FONT=&quot]“Donors reached out to my firm directly to help some of the women I represented,” said Bloom, whose clients have also included accusers of Bill Cosby and Bill O’Reilly.

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[FONT=&quot]Bloom said her goal in securing money was not to pressure the women to come forward, but rather to help them relocate or arrange security if they felt unsafe during the waning days of a vitriolic election. She declined to identify any of the donors.

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[FONT=&quot]And while she noted she represented sexual harassment victims for free or at reduced rates, she also acknowledged a standard part of her contracts required women to pay her commissions as high as 33 percent if she sold their stories to media outlets.

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[FONT=&quot]“Our standard pro bono agreement for legal services provides that if a media entity offers to compensate a client for sharing his or her story we receive a percentage of those fees. This rarely happens. But, on occasion, a case generates media interest and sometimes (not always) a client may receive an appearance fee,” she said.[/FONT]

superbeets · Dec 15, 2017

[FONT=&quot]“As a private law firm we have significant payroll, rent, taxes, insurance and other expenses every week, so an arrangement where we might receive some compensation to defray our costs seems reasonable to us and is agreed to by our clients,” Bloom added.

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[FONT=&quot]Bloom told The Hill she had no contact with Clinton or her campaign, but declined to address any contacts with super PACs that supported the Democratic presidential nominee.

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[FONT=&quot]Josh Schwerin, the communications director for Priorities USA Action, the largest pro-Clinton super PAC, told The Hill that the group had no relationship with Bloom and had no discussions with her about supporting Trump accusers.

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[FONT=&quot]One Bloom client who received financial help from Bloom was New York City makeup artist Jill Harth.

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[FONT=&quot]The former beauty contestant manager filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Trump in 1997 and then withdrew it under pressure. The news media discovered the litigation during the election, and Harth’s name became public in the summer of 2016. She asked Bloom to represent her in the fall after hearing Trump describe her allegations against him as false, and became a vocal critic of Trump.

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[FONT=&quot]“I consider myself lucky to have had Lisa Bloom by my side after my old lawsuit resurfaced. She advised me with great competence and compassion,” Harth told The Hill.

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[FONT=&quot]Harth said she did not originally ask Bloom for money, even though her cosmetics business suffered from the notoriety of the campaign stories about her.

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[FONT=&quot]But later, Bloom arranged a small payment from the licensing of some photos to the news media, and then set up a GoFundMe.com account to raise money for Harth in October 2016. “Jill put herself out there, facing off with Donald Trump. Let’s show her some love,” the online fundraising appeal set up by Bloom’s husband declared.

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[FONT=&quot]The effort raised a little over $2,300.

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[FONT=&quot]Bloom then arranged for a donor to make a larger contribution to help Harth pay off the mortgage on her Queens apartment in New York City. The amount was under $30,000, according to a source directly familiar with Harth’s situation. Public records show Harth’s mortgage was recorded as extinguished on Dec. 19, 2016.

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[FONT=&quot]Harth said the payments did not affect the merits of her allegations. She alleges that during a January 1993 meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, the future president pushed her up against a wall and groped her, trying to get his hands up her dress.

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[FONT=&quot]“Nothing that you’ve said to me about my mortgage or the Go Fund Me that was created to help me out financially affects the facts or the veracity of my 1997 federal complaint against Donald J. Trump for sexual harassment and assault,” she told The Hill.

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[FONT=&quot]“Having to retell my experiences of Donald Trump's harassment is the hardest thing I've ever had to do.”

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[FONT=&quot]Trump has steadfastly denied assaulting or harassing women, even after a videotape surfaced in September 2016 in which he can be heard boasting that famous men like him can grab women by the genitalia without consequence. Trump has dismissed the tape as "locker room talk."

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[FONT=&quot]Harth is currently writing a memoir about her whole experience, but without Bloom’s help.

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[FONT=&quot]Bloom acknowledged arranging financial help for Harth, who she said had lost income because of the publicity surrounding her allegations.

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[FONT=&quot]“She endured a tidal wave of hate for it. It was very painful for her. And as a New York City makeup artist, Jill lost jobs after she came out publicly against Donald Trump. I believed that people wanted to donate to help her, so we set up the GoFundMe account,” she told The Hill.

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superbeets · Dec 15, 2017

The Hill does not identify the names of victims of sexual assault or harassment unless they go public on their own, like Harth.

But one woman who did not go public with allegations agreed to share her documents and talk to The Hill about her interactions with Bloom if The Hill honored its commitment to maintain her anonymity.

Both that woman and Harth, who were friends, stressed that Bloom never asked them to make any statements or allegations except what they believed to be true.

Their texts and emails indicate Bloom held a strong dislike of Trump though. Bloom is the daughter of Gloria Allred, another prominent attorney who is representing a number of women who have made accusations of sexual misconduct against Trump.

In an email to the unnamed woman, Bloom said that her story was “further evidence of what a sick predator this man is,” referring to Trump.

Documents also show Bloom’s efforts to get alleged victims of sexual assault or harassment to come out against Trump intensified as Election Day 2016 approached.

When Harth, for instance, informed Bloom she had just made a Facebook post urging other women to come forward about Trump in October 2016, the lawyer texted back: “Wow Jill that would be amazing. 27 days until the election.”

And when a potential client abruptly backed out of a pre-election news conference in which she was supposed to allege she was sexually assaulted at age 13, Bloom turned her attention to another woman.

That woman, Harth’s friend, went back and forth for weeks with Bloom in 2016 about going public with an allegation of an unsolicited advance by Trump on the 1990s beauty contest circuit.

“Give us a clear sense of what you need and we will see if it we can get it,” Bloom texted the woman a week before Election Day.

“I’m scared Lisa. I can’t relocate. I don’t like taking other people’s money,” the woman wrote to Bloom.

“Ok let’s not do this then,” Bloom responded. “We are just about out of time anyway.”

The woman then texted back demanding to know why there was a deadline. “What does time have to do with this? Time to bury Trump??? You want my story to bury trump for what? Personal gain? See that 's why I have trust issues!!”

The woman told The Hill in an interview that Bloom initially approached her in early October through Harth. She said she considered coming forward with her account of an unsolicited advance by Trump solely to support her friend Harth, and not because she had any consternation with Trump, who ended the advance when she asked him to stop, she said.

The woman said Bloom initially offered a $10,000 donation to the woman’s favorite church, an account backed up by text messages the two exchanged.

“Please keep the donation offer confidential except to your pastor,” Bloom wrote the woman on Oct. 14, 2016.

When Bloom found out the woman was still a supporter of Trump and associated with lawyers, friends and associates of the future president, she texted a request that jarred the woman.

“When you have a chance I suggest you delete the August 2015 Facebook post about supporting Trump,” Bloom texted. “Otherwise the reporter will ask you how you could support him after what he did to you. Your call but it will make your life easier.”

The woman declined. “I hate to say it, but i still rather have trump in office than hillary,” the woman texted back. Bloom answered, “Ok I respect that. Then don’t change anything.”

Eventually the two decided the woman’s continued support of Trump was a benefit to her narrative if she went public with her accusations, the messages show. “I love your point about being a Trump supporter too,” Bloom texted on Oct. 14, 2016.

The text messages show the woman made escalating requests for more money.

By early November, the woman said, Bloom’s offers of money from donors had grown to $50,000 to be paid personally to her, and then even higher.

“Another donor has reached out to me offering relocation/security for any woman coming forward. I’m trying to reach him,” Bloom texted the woman on Nov. 3, 2016. Later she added, “Call me I have good news.”
The woman responded that she wasn’t impressed with the new offer of $100,000 given that she had a young daughter. “Hey after thinking about all this, I need more than $100,000.00. College money would be nice” for her daughter. “Plus relocation fees, as we discussed.”

The figured jumped to $200,000 in a series of phone calls with Bloom that week, according to the woman. The support was promised to be tax-free and also included changing her identity and relocating, according to documents and interviews.

Bloom told The Hill that the woman asked for money as high as $2 million in the conversations, an amount that was a nonstarter, but the lawyer confirmed she tried to arrange donations to the woman in the low six figures.

“She asked to be compensated, citing concerns for her safety and security and over time, increased her request for financial compensation to $2 million, which we told her was a non-starter,” Bloom told The Hill. “We did relay her security concerns to donors, but none were willing to offer more than a number in the low six figures, which they felt was more appropriate to address her security and relocation expenses.”

The woman said that when she initially talked to Bloom she simply wanted to support Harth and had no interest in being portrayed as an accuser or receiving money. But when Bloom’s mention of potential compensation became more frequent, the woman said she tried to draw out the lawyer to see how high the offer might reach and who might be behind the money.

Just a few days before the election, the woman indicated she was ready to go public with her story, then landed in the hospital and fell out of contact with Bloom.

The lawyer repeatedly texted one of the woman’s friends on Nov. 4, 2016, but the friend declined to put the woman on the phone, instead sending a picture of the client in a hospital bed.
Bloom persisted, writing in a series of texts to the friend that she needed to talk to her hospitalized client because it could have “a significant impact on her life” and a “big impact on her daughter” if she did not proceed with her public statement as she had planned.

“She is in no condition for visitors,” the friend texted Bloom back.

“If you care about her you need to leave her be until she is feeling better,” the friend added in another text.

Bloom hopped on a plane from California to come see the woman on the East Coast, according to the text messages and interviews.
The next day, the woman finally reconnected with Bloom and informed her she would not move forward with making her allegations public. Bloom reacted in a string of text messages after getting the news.

“I am confused because you sent me so many nice texts Wednesday night after my other client wasted so much of my time and canceled the press conference,” Bloom texted on Nov. 5, 2016. “That meant a lot to me. Thursday you said you wanted to do this if you could be protected/relocated. I begged you not to jerk me around after what I had just gone through.”

A little later, she added another text. “You have treated me very poorly. I have treated you with great respect as much as humanly possible. I have not made a dime off your case and I have devoted a great deal of time. It doesn’t matter. I could have done so much for you. But you can’t stick to your word even when you swear you will.”

After the woman was released from the hospital, she agreed to meet Bloom at a hotel on Nov. 6, just two days before Trump unexpectedly defeated Clinton.

The woman told The Hill in an interview that at the hotel encounter, Bloom increased the offer of donations to $750,000 but still she declined to take the money.

The woman texted Bloom that day saying she didn’t mean to let her lawyer down.

“You didn’t let me down,” Bloom texted back. “You came and spoke to me and made the decision that’s right for you. That’s all I wanted.”

Bloom confirmed to The Hill that she flew to Virginia to meet with the woman after she had changed her mind several times about whether to go public with her accusations against Trump.

“We invited her to meet with us at the hotel restaurant and she accepted. Ultimately, after another heartfelt discussion, she decided that she did not want to come forward, and we respected her decision,” Bloom told The Hill.

Bloom said the donor money was never intended “to entice women to come forward against their will.”

“Nothing can be further from the truth. Some clients asked for small photo licensing fees while others wanted more to protect their security,” she said.

Bloom declined to identify the name of any donors who would have provided money for women making accusations against Trump.
Harth and the woman who decided not to go public said they never were given any names of donors.

But Bloom told the woman who declined to come forward that she had reached out to political action committees supporting Clinton’s campaign.

“It’s my understanding that there is some Clinton Super Pack [sic] that could help out if we did move forward,” the woman wrote Bloom on Oct. 11, 2016. “If we help the Clinton campaign they in turn could help or compensate us?”

Bloom wrote back, “Let’s please do a call. I have already reached out to Clinton Super PACs and they are not paying. I can get you paid for some interviews however.”

The woman who ultimately declined to come forward with Bloom told The Hill that she stayed silent for an entire year afterward because she did not want to call attention to her family.

She said she supported Trump in 2016, and that he she held no resentment about the early 1990s advance because Trump stopped it as soon as she asked him.

She said she remains friends with many people associated with the president to this day, including one of his best personal friends and a lawyer who works for one of the firms representing Trump.

The woman said, however, no one associated with the Trump White House or the president forced her to come forward or made any offers to induce her to talk to The Hill. She said she agreed to do so only after she became disgusted to learn this past October that Bloom had agreed to work in defense of Weinstein.

“I couldn’t understand how she could say she was for people like me and then represent someone like him. And then all the money stuff I knew about. I just became frustrated,” she said.

Bloom dropped her representation of Weinstein as the accusations piled up against him, telling Buzzfeed that it had been a “colossal mistake.”

Nearly from the beginning, Bloom made clear to the woman she would have to pay her law firm a commission on any fees the attorney arranged from media outlets willing to pay for the woman’s story, according to a copy of a contract as well as a text message sent to the woman.

“Outlets with which I have good relationships that may pay for your first on camera interview, revealing your name and face: Inside Edition, Dr. Phil, LawNewz.com,” Bloom texted the woman just weeks before Election Day. “My best estimate of what I could get for you would be $10-15,000 (less our 1/3 attorney fee)."

“If you are interested I would recommend Inside Edition or Dr. Phil as they are much bigger. Dr. Phil is doing a show on Trump accusers next Tuesday in LA and would fly you here and put you up in a nice hotel, and pay for your meals as well, with your daughter if you like,” Bloom’s text added. “Media moves very quickly so you need to decide and then once confirmed, you need to stick to it.”

Representatives of "Inside Edition" and "Dr. Phil" said they did not pay any Trump accusers for appearances last year.
Bloom’s firm sent the woman a “media-related services” contract to represent her for “speaking out against Donald Trump” that laid out business terms for selling a story in the most direct terms.

“You will compensate the Firm thirty-three percent (33%) of the total fee that you collect, whether the media deal or licensing fees is for print, Internet, radio, television, film or any other medium,” Bloom’s proposed contract, dated Oct. 10, 2016, read. The woman said she signed the contract.

When Bloom found out in early November that the woman and the friend had discussions with CBS News about doing an interview on their own, the lawyer texted back: “CBS does not pay for stories.”

A little later Bloom sent another text suggesting the arrangements she was making could be impacted by the unauthorized media contacts. “You and your friends should not be shopping the story it will come back to bite you,” Bloom texted. “And this whole thing we have worked so hard to make happen will go away.”

superbeets · Dec 15, 2017

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Greenbacks · Dec 15, 2017

Lisa Bloom paying bitches to lie.

Rigged system

superbeets · Dec 15, 2017

Greenbacks said:
Lisa Bloom paying bitches to lie.

Rigged system

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[FONT=&quot]ALERT: How much money were the @realDonaldTrump accusers paid? Equally important, were the TV hosts pushing the #FAKEnews in on it? #maga

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superbeets · Dec 16, 2017

Disbar the bitch

superbeets · Dec 16, 2017

[h=1]Lisa Bloom tried to secure massive payments for Trump accusers from mysterious donors before the election and encouraged them to share their stories on shows which would pay[/h]

Lisa Bloom represented four women who alleged misconduct against Trump
Two never went public after going back and forth with her over texts and calls
One came forward this week to tell how she tried to land her donations
She said Bloom was in a hurry for her to speak out before the election and offered her $750,000 from one mysterious donor
She also encouraged them to choose media outlets which would pay them because their contracts gave her a 33 percent cut of the fee
Bloom insists the money was to be used to relocate or hire security and was not payment for speaking out against Trump
One who did speak out against Trump had her $30,000 mortgage paid off
She also received fees for licensing photos and Bloom took 33 percent of it
The attorney prides herself on working pro-bono for sexual harassment victims
She defended the payment offers and insisted the donors came to her 'out of the blue' after another woman backed out a November 2 press conference
Bloom was hired by Harvey Weinstein shortly afterwards to defend him against accusations of sexual harassment

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superbeets · Dec 16, 2017

Celebrity attorney Lisa Bloom tried to bag 'donations' of up to $750,000 for women accusing President Trump of sexual harassment during the 2016 election, it has been revealed.
Bloom, who prides herself on representing sexual assault accusers pro-bono, also tried to land commissions for herself by having them sell their stories to television and media outlets for a fee which she would take a cut out of.
She worked with four separate women, including two who have never come forward, who alleged sexual misconduct against the president.
Her attempts to secure payment for them were revealed by The Hill on Friday and confirmed by the 56-year-old later in a lengthy statement in which she called the journalist who revealed them biased and insisted she had done nothing wrong.
Later, she shared the phone number, email address and IP address of someone who sent her an abusive email.
None of the women say that Bloom encouraged them to be dishonest but they say they were surprised by her eagerness for them to go public with their claims before election day.
One, who never went public with her story but demanded escalating amounts from donors at the time, said she was disgusted by Bloom's recent and brief representation of Harvey Weinstein and that this was why she had now chosen to speak out.
'I couldn’t understand how she could say she was for people like me and then represent someone like him. And then all the money stuff I knew about. I just became frustrated,' she said.

Bloom responded to the news on Friday by describing it as an attempt by the 'right wing' to undermine the accusers

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Lisa Bloom tried to arrange payments of up to $750,000 for women who said they had been accused by Donald Trump to have them come forward before the election

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superbeets · Dec 16, 2017

The attempts include requests to Clinton Super Pacs which refused to pay.
The donors who were willing to pay have not been named. Bloom claims they 'approached' her 'out of the blue' after another accuser backed out of a November 2 press conference because she was afraid.
The donors, Bloom said, did not want another woman to fear the same rebuke and so offered the cash to give them peace of mind about speaking out.
She insisted she had no contact with Clinton or anyone from her campaign.
In one case, the lawyer and her husband set up a GoFundMe page for one accuser, Jill Harth, to 'get her back on her feet'.
It only raised $2,300 but the same woman had her mortgage paid off by an unnamed donor.

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superbeets · Dec 16, 2017

The most tenacious attempts were to secure money for a woman who never ended up going public with her story against Trump.
At one stage, Bloom claims she asked for as much as $2million to be able to 'relocate' with her daughter after announcing her accusations. She cooperated with The Hill to share how Bloom tried to get her money.
In her claims to the newspaper, the woman claimed Bloom was in a hurry to have her share her story before the November 8 election.
They exchanged numerous text messages where they discussed what Bloom could 'get' for her.
One week before election day and after 'weeks of back and forth', Bloom sent her a text message which read: 'Give us a clear sense of what you need and we will see if it we can get it.'

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Harth (pictured with the president) said he assaulted her in 1993. She took licensing fees for photos from media outlets but stood by Bloom's representation of her on Friday

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Alongside donations from mysterious donors who gave Jill Harth a sum, described as being under $30,000 to pay off her mortgage, Bloom and her husband Braden Pollock set up a GoFundMe page to raise money for her. It only raised $2,300

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Harth defended Bloom and said her representation of her and all the accusers was above board. She insisted that her claims against Trump were just as credible as ever and that the money she received did nothing to change that

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superbeets · Dec 16, 2017

The woman replied that she was scared, 'couldn't relocate' as she believed she would have to and 'didn't like taking other people's money'.
Bloom replied: 'Ok let’s not do this then. We are just about out of time anyway.'
The woman was a friend of Jill Harth, a make-up artist who claims she was assaulted by Trump in 1993. She filed a lawsuit against him in 1997 and it was unearthed during the campaign.
Harth went public with her accusation and was represented by Bloom. Her unnamed friend said she initially considered coming forward to support her but not to sink Trump's campaign.
She supported the president politically, told Bloom as much and even had a photograph on her Facebook account of the pair which Bloom told her to remove when they were considering publicizing her claims.
'Give us a clear sense of what you need and we will see if it we can get it.'
Bloom to Trump accuser in text message

She says Bloom first offered her a $10,000 donation to her church but asked her to keep it confidential. The Hill did not specify in its report whether that initial offer was sponsored by a donor.
By November, the offers grown to $50,000 then to $100,000 which had been offered by a mysterious donor to help 'any Trump accuser' relocate and pay for any additional security they might need after sharing their claims.
The woman refused the $100,000 offer and asked for more, replying to Bloom that she wanted enough money to send her daughter to college.

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Bloom said the donors contacted her 'out of the blue' after a November 2 press conference (above) where a separate accuser who was meant to appear suddenly backed out. The donors, she said, offered the other women money to ensure their safety should they wish to speak out against Trump who was, at the time, still a candidate

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superbeets · Dec 16, 2017

She became bold in her requests and once asked the lawyer if any Clinton Super Pacs would be willing to stump up the money.
In a reply to one text message in October, Bloom admitted to 'reaching out to them' but said they turned her down.
It is not clear if she ever asked them directly for money.
'I have already reached out to Clinton Super PACs and they are not paying. I can get you paid for some interviews however,' she said.
As the demands grew, the donors backed out and the woman eventually refused.
Bloom claimed that she asked for $2million at one stage, a ludicrous amount which she said she told her would be a 'non-starter'. The offers of around $100,000 remained but the woman refused.
On November 5, after the woman lost contact with Bloom because she was hospitalized for an unknown medical condition, the attorney sent her a text message which read: 'I am confused because you sent me so many nice texts Wednesday night after my other client wasted so much of my time and canceled the press conference.

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One of the accusers said she was prompted to speak out about Bloom's attempts to secure money after learning she represented alleged serial sex abuser Harvey Weinstein (pictured above together in October a day before the first accusations about him emerged)

'That meant a lot to me. Thursday you said you wanted to do this if you could be protected/relocated. I begged you not to jerk me around after what I had just gone through.
'You have treated me very poorly. I have treated you with great respect as much as humanly possible. I have not made a dime off your case and I have devoted a great deal of time. It doesn’t matter. I could have done so much for you.
'But you can’t stick to your word even when you swear you will.'
The press conference she referred to was one which was abruptly canceled on November 2. Bloom had touted it to the media and reporters had gathered to attend it when the unnamed woman backed out with minutes to spare.
'She is living in fear. She has decided that she is too afraid to show her face,' Bloom told reporters at the time.
'I have already reached out to Clinton Super PACs and they are not paying. I can get you paid for some interviews however

A day after those texts, Bloom met the woman at a hotel in Virginia and offered her a final sum of $750,000 - to be put up by an unnamed donor - to pay for protection and relocation if she went public.
She refused it and they went their separate ways.
The woman never participated in any media interviews but signed a contract Bloom sent her which stated that a 33 per cent cut of any media fees she collected by speaking out would be taken for The Bloom Firm.
She highlighted certain shows which she knew paid for stories and highlighted those that did not, namely CBS which the two accusers had been approached by to share their allegations.
In text messages, Bloom told the woman: 'Outlets with which I have good relationships that may pay for your first on camera interview, revealing your name and face: Inside Edition, Dr. Phil, LawNewz.com.
'My best estimate of what I could get for you would be $10-15,000 (less our 1/3 attorney fee).
'If you are interested I would recommend Inside Edition or Dr. Phil as they are much bigger. Dr. Phil is doing a show on Trump accusers next Tuesday in LA and would fly you here and put you up in a nice hotel, and pay for your meals as well, with your daughter if you like.
'Media moves very quickly so you need to decide and then once confirmed, you need to stick to it.'
Producers for both Dr. Phil and Inside Edition said they did not pay any Trump accusers for appearances.
Bloom hit back at The Hill's article on Friday. In a lengthy statement, she labeled it a 'smear story' and said that any fee her clients would have received from media appearances was insignificant compared to Trump's billions.
She defended her firm's policy of taking a 33 percent cut of the fees, claiming it ensured her staff were paid.
'In pro bono cases (where we work for free or at sharply reduced fees), we add a line in our client agreements that if the client gets paid for media interviews our law firm gets one-third. This seems fair to us and our clients.

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Bloom's mother Gloria represented several Trump accusers including Summer Zervos (above) who is suing the president for defamation

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'When my client is a single mother, unemployed, in dire need of therapy, on the verge of bankruptcy or all of the above, she may choose to do an interview with the outlet that will compensate her. A few thousand dollars hardly levels the playing field against a billionaire like Donald Trump, but it helps a little, and I leave that decision to my client, after she’s been fully vetted for veracity,' she said.
Bloom labeled John Solomon, one of two Hill journalists whose names were by-lined to the piece, a 'far right' reporter.
'A far right journalist*, who Washington Monthly called "the easiest mark in the business for GOP oppo research hits," along with other influencers on the far right, are trying to cast doubt on the very credible accusations of sexual harassment and assault against Donald Trump by creating a hit piece, suggesting that I offered women money to come up with stories against him. That is false,' she fumed.
She insisted that donors approached her after the canceled press conference on November 2 and said she was merely doing her job as a lawyer by referring their offers to her clients.
'Due to an unexpected turn of events, donors also reached out to help some of my clients last year.
'Multiple donors then contacted me out of the blue with offers to ensure the safety of women who might still come forward.
'As an attorney I was obligated to relay those offers of funds for relocation to a safer community and round the clock security, and I was happy to do it.
'And I offered what people come to me for – my opinion and advice. My clients wanted to tell their stories, and now here was a safer way to do it.'
Bloom speared the former client who collaborated with The Hill to produce the article, saying: 'I still believe her corroborated allegations against Trump, which she repeats in this article, and hope she finds peace.
'She’s not going to find it by trying to drag down other Trump accusers or their lawyers.'
Since backing out of going public with her claims, the unnamed woman has been in touch with Trump lawyers. She did not reveal to The Hill what the nature of their contact was.
Harth, whose mortgage was paid off by one donor, stood by Bloom and said she never pressured any of the accusers in to speaking out.
'I'm terribly disappointed that anyone would suggest Lisa was trying to pay women to come up with stories. It's simply not true. Lisa, pro bono, was trying to HELP, against a powerful billionaire who was elected even though 19 of us ultimately came out and accused him of sexual misconduct.
'These continued attacks on accusers and our lawyers is what makes it so hard for women to speak out, even now.'
Harth received money from Bloom by licensing photographs. The aforementioned GoFundMe page was set up by Bloom's husband, Braden Pollock, and raised $2,300.
The mortgage on her Queens apartment was paid off in December by an unidentified donor.
Bloom represented shamed movie mogul Weinstein briefly in October when the first accusations against him emerged.
She has since stopped and described it as a 'colossal mistake'.
Her work on behalf of the mogul included attempts to kill stories against him that were prompted by his own sexual assault accusers.
In October, TMZ reported that Bloom tried to discredit the women and offered up material to news organizations which she believed would silence their accusations against Weinstein.
Part of the material she allegedly offered was Rose McGowan's 'sexual history'.
McGowan claimed Weinstein raped her in 1997 but did not speak out about it until October this year because of a contemporaneous agreement she signed which stopped her from discussing it.
Bloom has not commented on the specifics of what she did and did not do for Weinstein.
Instead, she filed it all under attorney client privilege and tweeted: 'Attorneys must maintain confidentiality even when awful, untrue things are said about us. Welp, I did sign up for this.'
Her other clients include Bill O'Reilly accusers and Marion Brown who recently alleged sexual misconduct against ousted Rep. John Conyers.
Bloom's mother Gloria Allred has represented a number of high profile sexual assault and harassment accusers including several who name Trump as their attacker.
She was unimpressed with her daughter's decision to represent Weinstein in October.
'Had I been asked by Mr. Weinstein to represent him, I would have declined, because I do not represent individuals accused of sex harassment. I only represent those who allege that they are victims of sexual harassment.
'While I would not represent Mr. Weinstein, I would consider representing anyone who accused Mr. Weinstein of sexual harassment, even if it meant that my daughter was the opposing counsel,' she said.

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superbeets · Dec 16, 2017

[h=3]BLOOM'S RESPONSE: IT'S A SMEAR[/h]

Bloom's response hit back at journalist John Solomon (pictured)

Do not let the right wing undermine the brave Trump accusers. Not today. Not ever. I stand with them.
A far right journalist*, who Washington Monthly called "the easiest mark in the business for GOP oppo research hits," along with other influencers on the far right, are trying to cast doubt on the very credible accusations of sexual harassment and assault against Donald Trump by creating a hit piece, suggesting that I offered women money to come up with stories against him. That is false.
Tellingly, Bill O’Reilly referenced this article a couple of days before it posted. I represented the three women who took down O’Reilly earlier this year and am currently in active litigation against him on behalf of another client. This is just his latest effort to try and discredit my clients and me.
But it’s not going to stop me from representing O’Reilly or Trump accusers or speaking out about their vile misogyny.
Let me start with the headline. Even this spurious article, written with the intention of casting doubt on the accusers, includes this important fact: that the victims who came forward were telling the truth. “Both that woman and Harth, who were friends, stressed that Bloom never asked them to make any statements or allegations except what they believed to be true.”
During the 2016 presidential campaign, many women contacted me with sexual misconduct allegations against Trump. My Bloom Firm team vetted each of them, as we do all cases like this, with extensive background checks, social media reviews, analyzing relevant documents from the time of the incident, such as calendars, notes, photos, etc. We speak to friends, family and witnesses. Potential clients don’t like this process and sometimes complain about it, but we insist on it. Four Trump accusers passed this review with sufficient credibility and corroboration that we agreed to represent them.
Now, a note about my law firm. Many attorneys went to law school to do the kind of civil rights work we do at the Bloom Firm: representing almost entirely victims against powerful individuals and companies. But few end up doing it. Those who try quickly go out of business and wind up back on the corporate side. As a result, victims have a very hard time finding lawyers. Why? Because it is not only very challenging work, where lawyers will immediately be subjected to frequent threats of violence and waves of hate, but because it’s an economic challenge to keep the doors open for business in a civil rights firm. A few of our clients can afford our hourly rates, but not many. In other cases, we take a percentage of the recovery. But what about worthy matters that are beyond the statute of limitations, where women really need legal help? How can we help them and also meet our payroll (over sixteen lawyers and Bloom Firm staffers currently), rent, insurance, taxes and other significant business expenses?
In pro bono cases (where we work for free or at sharply reduced fees), we add a line in our client agreements that if the client gets paid for media interviews our law firm gets one-third. This seems fair to us and our clients. We also say in the agreement itself that it’s extremely unlikely. So it’s in our standard contracts, but rarely invoked.
Most people do not get paid for interviews. But some shows will offer a few thousand dollars to license photos, or for an appearance fee. When my client is a single mother, unemployed, in dire need of therapy, on the verge of bankruptcy or all of the above, she may choose to do an interview with the outlet that will compensate her. A few thousand dollars hardly levels the playing field against a billionaire like Donald Trump, but it helps a little, and I leave that decision to my client, after she’s been fully vetted for veracity.
Due to an unexpected turn of events, donors also reached out to help some of my clients last year.
Just before the election, on November 3, 2016, one of my four Trump accusers, Jane Doe, agreed to speak at a press conference at my office. During the lead-up to the press conference, she and I received multiple death and rape threats. Moments before the press conference was scheduled to begin, Jane Doe backed out. She was afraid. My heart went out to her and I think many understood her fear and pain. Of course, I respected her decision and helped her remove herself from the narrative and dismiss a case she’d filed, as she instructed.
The cancelled press conference was widely reported. Multiple donors then contacted me out of the blue with offers to ensure the safety of women who might still come forward. As an attorney I was obligated to relay those offers of funds for relocation to a safer community and round the clock security, and I was happy to do it. And I offered what people come to me for – my opinion and advice. My clients wanted to tell their stories, and now here was a safer way to do it.
I spend a great deal of time talking scared, stressed women through the pros and cons of speaking out against high profile men. For those who reached out to me with credible, corroborated allegations against Trump, I was not neutral. I encouraged them to overcome their fear, experience empowerment, and potentially spare the country the election of an indecent and destructive man, who based on his lifetime history of misogyny alone should have been disqualified. All the better if their safety could be ensured. I believed they ultimately would be glad they did, as my clients almost always are after they speak out.
For example, I've spent much of this week in Washington, DC with my brave pro bono client Marion Brown, who I represented against Democratic Congressman John Conyers. While Marion was fearful at first, ultimately she chose to speak out, and this week we were received with great respect in our meetings with Congress members and staffers. She says she has found her purpose and is positively radiant as we press for sexual harassment reforms. (You go, Marion.) Silence breaking is healthy. Many of my clients experience this empowerment and helping them achieve it is the best part of what I do.
Back to my Trump accusers. It now appears that one of them, who at the end asked for large sums of money that the donors were not willing to pay, became frustrated and ultimately did not speak out, has since connected with Trump attorneys and this pro-Trump reporter to create a smear story about me. That’s disappointing, but also a byproduct of this line of work in our culture of anger and hate. Sadly, hurt people get used and manipulated by powerful forces. Despite all that, I still believe her corroborated allegations against Trump, which she repeats in this article, and hope she finds peace. She’s not going to find it by trying to drag down other Trump accusers or their lawyers.
I have spent my career representing women and some men who have been the victims of sexual misconduct. At last, society is finally saying, enough -- and people who have not been victims are doing what they can to support those who are. I hope that these changes will stick, so that women and men no longer have to put up with sexual misconduct as the price of a job. And I hope that those who come forward will no longer have to pay the heavy price that victims of the past had to pay, and that many today are still paying. And I sincerely hope that harassers will no longer be afforded the privilege of serving our nation, regardless of political party.
It is my pleasure to give Jill Harth, a cherished client and friend, and the brave, first Trump accuser, the last word:
Having to retell my experiences of Donald Trump's harassment is the hardest thing I've ever had to do. I consider myself lucky to have had Lisa Bloom by my side after my old lawsuit resurfaced. She advised me with great competence and compassion. As we were telling our stories, all of us were hit with frightening threats, hate, and lies dredged up by Trump’s investigators. Another accuser, who I knew and referred to Lisa, asked for monetary assistance so she could relocate. She kept changing her mind about whether she wanted to tell her story and ultimately she didn’t, which I understand. Lisa was patient and kind to her, as Lisa always was with me.
I'm terribly disappointed that anyone would suggest Lisa was trying to pay women to come up with stories. It's simply not true. Lisa, pro bono, was trying to HELP, against a powerful billionaire who was elected even though 19 of us ultimately came out and accused him of sexual misconduct. These continued attacks on accusers and our lawyers is what makes it so hard for women to speak out, even now.
*John Solomon is known for making "much ado about very little" (Columbia Journalism Review) and for "weaponizing" stories about progressives like me to feed to Fox News. He's been called "the easiest mark in the business for GOP oppo research hits." (Washington Monthly).

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superbeets · Dec 16, 2017

Disbar her

Trouble is the Bar is California

Therefore unlikely that anything will happen to her

Prominent lawyer sought donor cash for two Trump accusers

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