Woman Accused Al Gore of Sexual Misconduct in 2006
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christiefan915
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The actual police report: [ame="http://www.scribd.com/doc/33472914/Portland-Police-Bureau-report-on-Al-Gore"]Portland Police Bureau report on Al Gore[/ame]
Page three: "The case is exceptionally cleared as (name withheld) refuses to cooperate with the investigation or even report a crime."
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Don't know why the page isn't loading, but go to the bottom of this page and click on the link.
http://mobile.oregonlive.com/advorg...634890?contentguid=2tzh3H1z&full=true#display
Page three: "The case is exceptionally cleared as (name withheld) refuses to cooperate with the investigation or even report a crime."
Hmm....
Don't know why the page isn't loading, but go to the bottom of this page and click on the link.
http://mobile.oregonlive.com/advorg...634890?contentguid=2tzh3H1z&full=true#display
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She has apparently stated that she was afraid for a couple of reasons; one being how angry he was towards her, and two fear of losing her job...the story is still unfolding.
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A Portland massage therapist gave local police a detailed statement last year alleging that former Vice President Al Gore groped her, kissed her and made unwanted sexual advances during a late-night massage session in October 2006 in a suite at the upscale Hotel Lucia.
The woman told investigators that she informed two friends and kept the clothes she wore that night, including her black pants with stains on them. But Portland police didn't contact any of the woman's friends, obtain the potential evidence or interview anyone at the hotel, records show.
The case was not investigated any further because detectives concluded there was insufficient evidence to support the allegations," the Portland Police Bureau said in a prepared statement Wednesday, responding to inquiries from all over the world after the National Enquirer broke the story on its website.
In her detailed Jan. 8, 2009, statement to a Portland sexual assault investigator, the woman said she was called to the hotel about 10:30 p.m. Oct. 24, 2006, to provide a massage for Gore, who was registered under the name "Mr. Stone." Once inside his ninth-floor suite, she said he pushed her hand to his groin, fondled her buttocks and breasts, tongue-kissed her and threw her down on the bed as she tried to thwart his advances.
She also said Gore had finished a beer and opened a bottle of Grand Marnier while she was in the room.
While the Police Bureau considers it a closed case, it said it would reopen it if new evidence is received.
Portland police spokeswoman Detective Mary Wheat said police didn't go to the hotel or talk to the woman's friends because it wouldn't help prove or disprove the woman's allegations.
"We're not disputing Al Gore was in the hotel room with this woman," Wheat said. "The two people in that room were Mr. Gore and this woman. If a bellhop came in and saw something, that would be different."
The Multnomah County district attorney's office was aware that the woman's attorney filed a complaint with police about two months after the encounter, but the woman didn't show up for three scheduled interviews with police investigators. At that time, police were told the woman didn't want to proceed with a criminal case and would pursue a civil case instead.
Multnomah County District Attorney Michael Schrunk said Wednesday that his office was not informed that Portland police had taken another statement from the massage therapist in 2009 and only received those reports once the National Enquirer story broke.
"If the complainant and the Portland Police Bureau wish to pursue the possibility of a criminal prosecution, additional investigation by the Bureau will be necessary and will be discussed with the Portland Police Bureau," Schrunk said in a prepared release.
Gore family spokeswoman Kalee Kreider said the former vice president has no comment. Gore and his wife, Tipper, announced June 1 they were separating.
The 54-year-old massage therapist, who lives in Southeast Portland, refused to talk to a reporter from The Oregonian when approached Wednesday afternoon. She emerged from her home about 4:30 p.m. wearing a large floppy hat and sunglasses and was accompanied by a young man, who was carrying a bag. The two drove away in a car with Washington license plates.
According to a lengthy transcript of the woman's Jan. 8, 2009, statement to a Portland detective, the therapist said she arrived in the suite about 11 p.m. Earlier that evening, Gore addressed a near-capacity crowd in the Rose Garden's Theater of the Clouds, telling the audience that man-made global climate change is the most important moral challenge of our time. She said Gore changed into a bathrobe, spoke of his grueling travel schedule and need to relax and told her to call him "Al."
While giving Gore an abdominal massage, she said he demanded that she go lower and soon grabbed her right hand and shoved it under the sheet.
"I felt like I was dancing on the edge of a razor," she told Detective Molly Daul.
She tried to use an acupressure technique to relax Gore and thought she may have nearly put him to sleep. She went into the bathroom to wash up and came out to pack up.
That's when, she says, Gore wrapped her in an "inescapable embrace" and fondled her back, buttocks and breasts as she was trying to break down her massage table.
She called him a "crazed sex poodle" and tried to distract him, pointing out a box of Moonstruck chocolates on a nearby table. He went for the chocolates and then offered her some, cornering her, fondling her and shoving his tongue in her mouth to french kiss as he pressed against her.
She said he tried to pull her camisole strap down.
She said she told him to stop it. "I was distressed, shocked and terrified."
She said she was intimidated by his physical size, calling him "rotund," described his "violent temper, dictatorial, commanding attitude" -- what she termed a contrast from his "Mr. Smiley global-warming concern persona."
Later, she said, he tried to lure her into the bedroom to hear pop star Pink's "Dear Mr. President" on his iPod dock. She said Gore sat on one end of the bed and motioned for her to join him.
Suddenly, she said, he "flipped me on my back, threw his whole body face down over a top me, pinning me down."
She said she loudly protested, "Get off me, you big lummox!"
The therapist said she injured her left leg and knee and sought medical care for several months.
The therapist later told detectives she did not call the police because she was afraid she wouldn't be believed. "I deeply feared being made into a public spectacle and my work reputation being destroyed," she said.
As it was, she said, even friends of hers who had voted for Gore didn't necessarily support her. She did call the Portland Women's Crisis Line, which encouraged her to call police.
She told detectives last year that she was not out for money but only wants "justice."
"He should not get a free pass merely because of his position. People in power are not to be given a license to behave in ways that the rest of us are not."
Randall Vogt, a Pearl District attorney who specializes in sexual misconduct cases, said he represented the massage therapist in 2006. "That file was closed and put to bed and forgotten," Vogt said. "She and I parted on friendly terms as best I can recall." He was not aware that his former client reactivated her claims against Gore last year.
Wheat said police didn't investigate the woman's 2009 statement further because "they didn't feel there was any additional evidence that would change what they saw in 2006." That's also why the police didn't consult with the district attorney's office about the 2009 statement, she said. Wheat added that the woman received a lot of attention from police and a victim's advocate, who made sure she had counseling.
In 2007 or 2008, then-Portland Tribune reporter Nick Budnick made a public records request and obtained the Portland police report, but the newspaper did not run a story.
Mark Garber, the Tribune's editor-in-chief, said the woman was not willing to talk on the record or press charges and the paper considered the time lapse between the incident and when the paper received the police report. "In the end, we decided not to proceed with a story that we could not document," Garber said.
The statute of limitations for third-degree sex abuse, which is the classification Portland police gave to the complaint in 2006 and 2007, is four years after the commission of the crime. However, if the accused is not an inhabitant or usually a resident in the state, then the statute of limitations is extended for a maximum of three years. So, in this case, the statute of limitations would not run out until 2013. No civil suit had been filed.
A Portland massage therapist gave local police a detailed statement last year alleging that former Vice President Al Gore groped her, kissed her and made unwanted sexual advances during a late-night massage session in October 2006 in a suite at the upscale Hotel Lucia.
The woman told investigators that she informed two friends and kept the clothes she wore that night, including her black pants with stains on them. But Portland police didn't contact any of the woman's friends, obtain the potential evidence or interview anyone at the hotel, records show.
The case was not investigated any further because detectives concluded there was insufficient evidence to support the allegations," the Portland Police Bureau said in a prepared statement Wednesday, responding to inquiries from all over the world after the National Enquirer broke the story on its website.
In her detailed Jan. 8, 2009, statement to a Portland sexual assault investigator, the woman said she was called to the hotel about 10:30 p.m. Oct. 24, 2006, to provide a massage for Gore, who was registered under the name "Mr. Stone." Once inside his ninth-floor suite, she said he pushed her hand to his groin, fondled her buttocks and breasts, tongue-kissed her and threw her down on the bed as she tried to thwart his advances.
She also said Gore had finished a beer and opened a bottle of Grand Marnier while she was in the room.
While the Police Bureau considers it a closed case, it said it would reopen it if new evidence is received.
Portland police spokeswoman Detective Mary Wheat said police didn't go to the hotel or talk to the woman's friends because it wouldn't help prove or disprove the woman's allegations.
"We're not disputing Al Gore was in the hotel room with this woman," Wheat said. "The two people in that room were Mr. Gore and this woman. If a bellhop came in and saw something, that would be different."
The Multnomah County district attorney's office was aware that the woman's attorney filed a complaint with police about two months after the encounter, but the woman didn't show up for three scheduled interviews with police investigators. At that time, police were told the woman didn't want to proceed with a criminal case and would pursue a civil case instead.
Multnomah County District Attorney Michael Schrunk said Wednesday that his office was not informed that Portland police had taken another statement from the massage therapist in 2009 and only received those reports once the National Enquirer story broke.
"If the complainant and the Portland Police Bureau wish to pursue the possibility of a criminal prosecution, additional investigation by the Bureau will be necessary and will be discussed with the Portland Police Bureau," Schrunk said in a prepared release.
Gore family spokeswoman Kalee Kreider said the former vice president has no comment. Gore and his wife, Tipper, announced June 1 they were separating.
The 54-year-old massage therapist, who lives in Southeast Portland, refused to talk to a reporter from The Oregonian when approached Wednesday afternoon. She emerged from her home about 4:30 p.m. wearing a large floppy hat and sunglasses and was accompanied by a young man, who was carrying a bag. The two drove away in a car with Washington license plates.
According to a lengthy transcript of the woman's Jan. 8, 2009, statement to a Portland detective, the therapist said she arrived in the suite about 11 p.m. Earlier that evening, Gore addressed a near-capacity crowd in the Rose Garden's Theater of the Clouds, telling the audience that man-made global climate change is the most important moral challenge of our time. She said Gore changed into a bathrobe, spoke of his grueling travel schedule and need to relax and told her to call him "Al."
While giving Gore an abdominal massage, she said he demanded that she go lower and soon grabbed her right hand and shoved it under the sheet.
"I felt like I was dancing on the edge of a razor," she told Detective Molly Daul.
She tried to use an acupressure technique to relax Gore and thought she may have nearly put him to sleep. She went into the bathroom to wash up and came out to pack up.
That's when, she says, Gore wrapped her in an "inescapable embrace" and fondled her back, buttocks and breasts as she was trying to break down her massage table.
She called him a "crazed sex poodle" and tried to distract him, pointing out a box of Moonstruck chocolates on a nearby table. He went for the chocolates and then offered her some, cornering her, fondling her and shoving his tongue in her mouth to french kiss as he pressed against her.
She said he tried to pull her camisole strap down.
She said she told him to stop it. "I was distressed, shocked and terrified."
She said she was intimidated by his physical size, calling him "rotund," described his "violent temper, dictatorial, commanding attitude" -- what she termed a contrast from his "Mr. Smiley global-warming concern persona."
Later, she said, he tried to lure her into the bedroom to hear pop star Pink's "Dear Mr. President" on his iPod dock. She said Gore sat on one end of the bed and motioned for her to join him.
Suddenly, she said, he "flipped me on my back, threw his whole body face down over a top me, pinning me down."
She said she loudly protested, "Get off me, you big lummox!"
The therapist said she injured her left leg and knee and sought medical care for several months.
The therapist later told detectives she did not call the police because she was afraid she wouldn't be believed. "I deeply feared being made into a public spectacle and my work reputation being destroyed," she said.
As it was, she said, even friends of hers who had voted for Gore didn't necessarily support her. She did call the Portland Women's Crisis Line, which encouraged her to call police.
She told detectives last year that she was not out for money but only wants "justice."
"He should not get a free pass merely because of his position. People in power are not to be given a license to behave in ways that the rest of us are not."
Randall Vogt, a Pearl District attorney who specializes in sexual misconduct cases, said he represented the massage therapist in 2006. "That file was closed and put to bed and forgotten," Vogt said. "She and I parted on friendly terms as best I can recall." He was not aware that his former client reactivated her claims against Gore last year.
Wheat said police didn't investigate the woman's 2009 statement further because "they didn't feel there was any additional evidence that would change what they saw in 2006." That's also why the police didn't consult with the district attorney's office about the 2009 statement, she said. Wheat added that the woman received a lot of attention from police and a victim's advocate, who made sure she had counseling.
In 2007 or 2008, then-Portland Tribune reporter Nick Budnick made a public records request and obtained the Portland police report, but the newspaper did not run a story.
Mark Garber, the Tribune's editor-in-chief, said the woman was not willing to talk on the record or press charges and the paper considered the time lapse between the incident and when the paper received the police report. "In the end, we decided not to proceed with a story that we could not document," Garber said.
The statute of limitations for third-degree sex abuse, which is the classification Portland police gave to the complaint in 2006 and 2007, is four years after the commission of the crime. However, if the accused is not an inhabitant or usually a resident in the state, then the statute of limitations is extended for a maximum of three years. So, in this case, the statute of limitations would not run out until 2013. No civil suit had been filed.
It ought to be against the law to even contemplate Al Gore and sexual misconduct in the same sentence!
Can I get a: EWWWWWWW-UUUUHHHHHHH!!!!!??
Zappy has a twin brother!!! :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
zappasguitar
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Hey, Spitzer is just a small time crook who likes the ladies...
It took an organization with a real dedication to hiring scum, like Fox News, to hire REAL criminals like Ollie North and G. Gordon Liddy!
cawacko
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A little off topic but this is from Chris Rock talking about sex and old politicians. Fast forward to the 2:26 mark and it lasts about 30 seconds. The beginning of the monologue is about Clinton and Lewinsky.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDt9G3tIxEw"]YouTube- Chris Rock - Clinton, Men & Sex[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDt9G3tIxEw"]YouTube- Chris Rock - Clinton, Men & Sex[/ame]
Imagine having everything in your face, cameras everywhere, all talking about how you were mauled by the former VP all Clinton-style.
After the incident she claims she was just stunned and could hardly believe it happened. I mean really, imagine the VP of the US doing this to you! Her friends after hearing her tale talked her into filing a report. Much of her angst came due to his high profile. She said that as he was angry and raising his voice and she thought the SS might rush in at any moment...that the whole incident was sureal. The hotel in question is purported to be a very exclusive one. She believed that her job was on the line as the hotel in question would likely not use her company if things went too public. The dismissive treatment of the police early on, in what they claimed was a lack of evidence, added to her feeling intimidated to act more aggressively. She was told by an attorney she'd have a better chance to win civilly then criminally.
cawacko
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Not trying to ask you specifically Christie just speaking out loud but in this type of scenario is a woman's first instinct to believe another woman or believe the man? And in this case where partisan politics is/can be involved is it to believe the woman or believe the male politician who shares your political beliefs?
If it were Dick Cheney, she would be all over it like stink on $hit, going on ad nauseum about what a disgusting perv he is.
zappasguitar
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But since it's Gore, you are all over it like stink on...well...YOU.
charver
You lookin' at my pint?
Ahahahahahaha :lol: still laughing!
Much like you, Al Gore is a repulsive man. I don't care if he's Democrat or Vulcan for that matter. The thought of sex with a man as completely repulsive as yourself and Mr. Gore evokes a patent requirement for a brain bleach and a full body cleansing, followed by electro-shock treatment.
Please don't be offended. The truth is after all the truth. While you've got some conjured up idea of me, I unfortunately know exactly what you look like and quite frankly Zappy, you put the "r" in repulsive.
But other than that, Have a Nice Day, k?
christiefan915
Catalyst
This has nothing to do with politics. It reminds me of the controversies over Steeler QB Ben Roethlisberger. Back in 2009 a woman in Vegas accused him of sexual assault in a hotel room, but she didn't file charges for a year. She alleged that BR requested she come to his room and fix a non-working TV, and while there, he pushed her down on the bed and raped her. After this, she left the room and went home. The next day she reported what happened to the hotel security chief.
Now you're asking what my first instinct would have been, and it would have been to believe the woman. But, if I were that woman I would have gone immediately to the hospital and asked for a rape test, and also I'd have called the police and reported an assault. A physical exam would have shown something, and it's possible DNA could have been collected. So I have to wonder why she didn't do this. The woman was not a clueless teenager but a mature person in her 30's.
Now getting to Gore. I don't know whether to believe the woman or not, but my reasons to doubt would be based more on the idea that I can't even think of Gore and the word "libido" in the same sentence. Of course that has nothing to do with facts and everything to do with my opinion of his persona. But the facts are that this woman wouldn't admit a crime was committed and instead claimed she'd pursue the matter in civil court. To me that spells "shakedown". In court it would be "he said, she said" but there's the possibility that Gore would pull a Clinton and pay her off without admission of wrongdoing, just to make the case go away.
Now once more back to Roethlisberger, and fast-forward two years. He pulls the same stunt as he did in Vegas, only this time the underage girl and her friends immediately went to the hospital and reported the crime to the police. There are pages and pages of testimony by the girl and her friends, and their stories are consistent. I believe BR attacked the girl, and it now makes me think twice about the Vegas incident, that I first doubted.
You may think the Gore case is strictly partisan for me, but it's the woman's actions that are causing me to doubt her. Furthermore, you may remember years ago a woman named [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margie_Schoedinger"]Margie Schoedinger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia@@AMEPARAM@@/wiki/File
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Its not their job to corroborate the accusations...a trial is the place for that...it was their job to report that a complaint was filed and the police were involved......
but then, its exactly what I would expect from the liberal media...
cawacko
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This has always been a problem as gold digging women who bring up false charges hurt the cases of real women who are abused or raped.
Do I believe a man would want a happy ending in a situation like this? Yes. Could a guy get carried away and do what Gore is accused of? Yeah I can believe it. Do I know in this case? No I have no clue what happened. But do I believe a woman could be intimidated by the ex VP? Yes.