Another example of the dreadful legally-enforced, speculative puritanism we are living with. Anyone running a business is dealing with these sorts of claims. Anyone can make them and the only way to make them go away is to pay for them to do so. It's legalised extortion. The motivation is financial.
"The report claims Keillor wrote and displayed a suggestive poem about an employee in his bookstore, sent $16,000 and a confidentiality agreement to a subordinate he was romantically involved with, and told a 21-year-old student in his writing class that he was intensely attracted to her. It also revealed a 1998 lawsuit filed against MPR by a former employee who claimed Keillor discriminated against her based on her age and gender.
The report did not include information on the incident which resulted in MPR firing Keillor.
In his statement, Keillor called the woman’s complaint “a highly selective and imaginative piece of work” and said he would write of this experience in a novel.
“If I am guilty of harassment, then every employee who stole a pencil is guilty of embezzlement,” Keillor wrote. “I’m an honest fiction writer and I will tell this story in a novel.”"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/garrison-keillor-denounces-mpr-discredits-accuser_us_5a6cf1dce4b06e2532681ac0?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
The Harvey Weinsteins are bad dudes. But there's a whole other issue of corporate extortion which is every bit as real.
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