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Re:Female Congressional Candidate Ends Run After Being Accus... by Veen on Saturday December 16, 2017 @06:35AM (#15939062)
> A financial settlement means that there was some basis to the allegations.

It means nothing of the sort. It just means that the business decided the cost of fighting the case was likely to outweigh the cost of settling.

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Re:Female Congressional Candidate Ends Run After Being Accus... by mgiannopoulos on Saturday December 16, 2017 @06:46AM (#15939093)
Usually it is the company that has more resources at its disposal, not the employee
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Re:Female Congressional Candidate Ends Run After Being Accus... by skookumchuck on Saturday December 16, 2017 @06:57AM (#15939137)
Sensible companies do cost/benefit estimations and settle if it's financially the best course of action. They're not going to the mat on every case just because they've got money to spend.
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Re:Female Congressional Candidate Ends Run After Being Accus... by kuro68k on Saturday December 16, 2017 @07:06AM (#15939184)
Well there analysis wasn't very good, was it? It was her company and it's come back to hurt her years later.

Note she fails to mention the settlement in her denial, giving a misleading version of events.

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