Yesterday, when I mention that Tina Tchen had been forced out as CEO of Times Up, I did not notice, though the reporters at The Washington Post did, that she, and her partner in covering up for Andrew Cuomo, Roberta Kaplan, had a racket going.
Specifically while running the organization, both of them were scoring serious fees to protect problematic people and organizations from that same organization.
Atrios noted this, and observed, "This is how the mafia operates. ……… Hire HABIT Advisors (run by me) to tell you how to deal with nasty organizations like Time's Up (also run by me)."
He called it, "Pizzo," the term for Mafia Protection money:
A former Chicago corporate lawyer who became first lady Michelle Obama’s chief of staff, Tchen has led the advocacy group focused on fighting workplace sexual misconduct since 2019. She co-founded the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund with the attorney Roberta Kaplan, who resigned this month after New York Attorney General Letitia James uncovered some of her consultations with Cuomo advisers about the governor’s response to his first sexual harassment accuser, Lindsey Boylan.
Tchen also co-founded with Kaplan a private consulting company, HABIT Advisors, which focused on advising companies about how to handle sexual harassment. The website for that firm was taken offline in recent weeks.
It's quite a rabbit hole, and even to my jaded eyes, the corruption of these two stalwarts of the Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) absolutely buggers the mind.
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