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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Lawfare waged by a fair and lovely Dateline producer


I love it when big corporations are sued by the little people. The individual has little recourse to hire law firms employing hundreds of lawyers billing hundreds of dollars per minute... only the big boys can retain such firms on big fat retainers. 
I hope Kimberly Lengle wins.
She's probably learnt how to lawfare from you-know-who.
We should all learn similar lucrative tricks.

Caroline Bankoff writing at NYTimes:
...Former Dateline Producer Suing NBC for Using Her As Bait for Internet Weirdos.
A former NBC Dateline producer is suing the network for unspecified damages, claiming that she was forced to act as a "sexual decoy" for people her boss hoped to feature on the show. According to the lawsuit filed in the Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday, 33-year-old Kimberly Lengle had originally applied to work as a receptionist, but was told by producer Dan Slepian that she needed to "dress sexier" for that role. Instead, she was put to work responding to and posting online sex ads with the intention of luring in targets for Dateline's "Wild Wild Web," a To Catch a Predator–like hidden-camera series about other types of internet weirdos.

Over the course of her year and a half at the job, Lengle was asked to contact a Craigslister looking for "a human punching bag," men looking for "personal assistants" they obviously hoped to use for sex, and a dude referred to as "the Sperminator" whose pitch "[promising] to get women pregnant through regular intercourse" came with pictures of himself naked, save for "a box he [held] over his privates." That last one was eventually deemed "too sleazy" to air.........

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