it appears so.
Keeping with my axiom which states "all news is fake news until proven otherwise", I will say that if the following is true, Matt Lauer committed a serious crime, and it appears that NBC was in full knowledge making them culpable also.
From Daily Wire: emphasis and comment supplied by moi
[...]Perhaps most bizarre, Lauer, Variety claims, had something referred to as a "Lauer lock": Lauer "had a button under his desk that allowed him to lock his door from the inside without getting up … It allowed him to welcome female employees and initiate inappropriate contact while knowing nobody could walk in on him.” It also prevented the women from leaving which was conveniently left out of the equation by the author.
At least two women reported that they were exposed to sexual harassment that involved the lock button.
Variety says that they spoke to "dozens" of women over the course of a two-month investigation, but Variety's reporters also say they didn't need to do specific interviews: that Lauer's behavior was an open secret among NBC employees and that management went out of its way to ignore Lauer's sexual impropriety. IMO there is no way that NBC could not have known about that button. If they didn't, please remember that "ignorance is no excuse under the law."
From Legal Information Institute:
Overview
False imprisonment is an act punishable under criminal law as well as under tort law. Under tort law, it is classified as an intentional tort. A a person commits false imprisonment when he commits an act of restraint on another person which confines that person in a bounded area.
Prima Facie Case
- The defendant willfully acts . . .
- . . . intending to confine the plaintiff without the plaintiff's consent and without authority of law
- the defendant's act causes the plaintiff's confinement
- the plaintiff is aware of his/her own confinement
Bounded Area
An act of restraint can be a physical barrier (such as a locked door), the use of physical force to restrain, a failure to release, or an invalid use of legal authority. An area is only bounded if freedom of movement is limited in all directions. If there is a reasonable means of escape from the area, the area is not bounded. However, if the means of escaping will result in the risk of physical harm to the detainee, then the area is bounded. Further, threatening to harm the detainee's family if the detainee leaves would also result in the area being bounded.
I'm not a legal eagle beagle so it took me a few days to snap to the false imprisonment ramification.
You can bet on lawyers, smelling blood and $$$ in the water, already being lined up twenty deep to represent the complaining women.
That's all I have to say about Matt Lauer. I'm already bored with the subject and think what North Korea is doing deserving of more of our attention.
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