Kamala Protector of Women - Really?
A reasonable person believes in the right all Americans have for due process. That is the presumption of inosence until proven guilty. Now the past ten years have shown us clearly that Donald Trump has not enjoyed that privilege of citizenship. That said the importance of many political jobs especially the President and Vice President require comprehensive vetting. So for the moment let’s put aside “comprehensive vetting” Trump has suffered and look at Kamala or Mamala as some call her and just ask a few basic questions. The Daily Mail has done an excellent job is vetting Doug Emhoff as a potential “First Man” US Media has ignored the story.. See if you think its relevant to at least investigate and ask questions.
If we were to judge Emhoff by Democratic standards, we would have to conclude after the Daily Mail piece that he is a sexist misogonistic pig. But maybe we should give Kamala and Doug the opportunity to defend themselves.
EXCLUSIVEKamala Harris' husband Doug Emhoff faces explosive new allegations from his time at top LA law firm
By Josh Boswell For Dailymail.com
Published: 11:27 EDT, 8 October 2024 | Updated: 16:20 EDT, 8 October 2024
Kamala Harris's husband was 'inappropriate' and 'misogynistic' at work, his former colleagues tell DailyMail.com.
Attorneys who worked with Doug Emhoff at his former firm Venable say he yelled expletives, held a men-only cocktail hour in the office, revoked work perks from women who didn't flirt with him, and took only young, attractive associates in a limousine to a ball.
A 2019 lawsuit also claimed sex discrimination by other partners in the LA office Emhoff ran, and that while engaged to Harris, he hired an 'unqualified' part-time model as a legal secretary 'because she was young, attractive and friendly with the powerful men in the office'.
The claims are the latest in a string of allegations revealed by DailyMail.com that threaten to shatter Emhoff's image, heavily promoted by the Harris presidential campaign, of a feminist ally and 'wife guy'.
In August DailyMail.com revealed the Los Angeles lawyer cheated on his first wife and got his daughter's grade school teacher-cum-nanny pregnant.
Doug Emhoff has been previously dubbed by Democrats as a 'wife guy' and a 'mensch', a Yiddish term for an honorable, kind man. He is pictured marching with wife Kamala at the Capitol Pride Parade in 2021
Former colleagues have now come forward with claims of Emhoff's 'misogynistic' and 'inappropriate' behavior in the workplace while he was at law firm Venable in Los Angeles
Emhoff admitted to the affair after the story broke.
And last week we uncovered claims that he struck his ex-girlfriend in 2012.
Four days after DailyMail.com contacted Emhoff for comment, a spokesperson reportedly denied the allegations as 'untrue' in a statement to politics website SemafBefore becoming the country's first Second Gentleman, Emhoff was managing director at Venable in their 23rd story office in Los Angeles
Neither he nor the White House have commented to any other media, including DailyMail.com.
Now his former colleagues from the Venable Los Angeles office, which he ran from 2006 to 2017, are coming forward with allegations about his 'inappropriate' and 'a**hole' behavior in the workplace.
They all spoke upon agreement they would not be named, fearing retaliation.
One senior former staffer claimed Emhoff 'bragged' about yelling 'get the f*** out of my office' to a female partner at the firm, later telling his top male colleagues that he had 'put her in her place'.
'She had to ask him something,' the ex-staffer said. 'His office door was closed. She said to his secretary, 'is he on the phone?' She said no. She tapped on the door, he didn't answer, so she slightly opened the door and stuck her head in.
'He said "get the f*** out of my office."
'What's worse was he bragged about it to the management at Venable and they were aghast. He's an a**hole. He told them how he "put her in her place". A misogynist, that's who does that.'
DailyMail.com previously revealed that Emhoff was accused of violently striking a former girlfriend for allegedly flirting with another man during a booze-fueled altercation in 2012.
Emhoff recently sat down for a fawning interview with Jen Psaki during which the former White House Press Secretary told the Second Gentleman that he had 'reshaped the perception of masculinity'
The shocking allegations are a striking contrast to Emhoff's benevolent image promoted by the Harris campaign and his media interviews portraying himself as an ally to women
A female ex-staffer said it was well-known at the firm that Emhoff was 'very flirty' and that 'if you weren't flirty back or didn't respond positively then you were on his s**t list.'
This former Venable lawyer accused him of 'favoritism', saying the consequences of not flirting with him were that 'you wouldn't get to work on the cases you wanted to work on.'
KAMALA HARRIS SPEAKS OUT AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ON CALL HER DADDY
Kamala Harris appeared on popular podcast Call Her Daddy on Sunday amid the allegations against her husband, and encouraged victims of sexism, domestic violence, and sexual abuse to speak out.
'Part of the issue is that people don't talk about it,' she said.
'And I don't mean the survivors, I mean nobody does, and the more that we let anything exist in the shadows, the more likely it is that people are suffering and suffering silently, and we need to talk about it.
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to host Alex Cooper during a podcast interview on Call Her Daddy
'The first thing that I would say to anyone going through it is tell someone that you trust. Don't, don't quietly suffer. You have done nothing wrong.'
The host, Alex Cooper, did not ask Harris about the claims that her husband slapped his ex-girlfriend or was responsible for his daughter's nanny's miscarriage of his alleged lovechild.
Harris, however, was forced, once again, to defend the fact that she doesn't have any biological children after Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders's recent criticism.
'I think it's really important for women to lift each other up,' Harris said as she spoke warmly about her blended, 'modern family.'
'There were deadlines that, if you were one of his favorite people, wouldn't apply. But if you weren't, they would,' she told DailyMail.com.
Another woman who worked at the firm for several years said that Emhoff ran men-only drinks nights in the office.
'He had, for many years cocktail parties where only men were invited. In the office, on Friday evening,' she said.
'When my colleague brought that to the attention of Venable [around 2010], that stopped.'
The female attorney claimed that Emhoff also forced his colleagues to give him a cut of fees from new clients, using his control over allocating staff to new cases.
'If you bring in a client, you get compensated,' she said.
'He was in charge of the litigation department, so he staffed your cases. So if you wanted to staff your case, you had to give him part of your origination [bonus], or you didn't get staffed. It happens in law firms all the time.'
A woman who worked under Emhoff as a junior attorney at Venable told DailyMail.com that he favored 'young, pretty girls' at the firm.
'If there was an event, like the Justice Ball, he would favor certain people. Usually it was young, pretty girls. And he would prefer for them to ride with him. He would get a limo,' she said.
'I just don't think his behavior was appropriate for the position he was in.'
One top former Venable staffer told DailyMail.com that 'plenty of people' were aware of Emhoff's alleged inappropriate behavior at the firm.
A former legal secretary at Venable, Marjan Rabbi, sued the firm and two of its LA partners in 2019 alleging sex discrimination.
She claimed Venable senior attorneys yelled at her, humiliated and demeaned her.
Emhoff was not a defendant in the lawsuit, but he was called out by name in Rabbi's legal complaint.
The LA court filing claimed Emhoff was known for having a glamorous secretary in her 20s who was 'unqualified' but 'hired because she was young, attractive and friendly with the powerful men in the office.'
Emhoff was the 'Partner-in-Charge' of the LA office when Rabbi joined in 2014.
He married then-California Attorney General Harris in August that year. He was promoted to West Coast Managing Director in 2015.
DailyMail.com also uncovered a 2019 sex discrimination lawsuit against other partners in Venable's Los Angeles filed by legal secretary Marjan Rabbi
Emhoff was not named as a defendant but the lawsuit referenced his 'young, attractive secretary' Katya, who was described as an 'unqualified' part-time model who was allegedly hired 'because she was young, attractive and friendly with the powerful men in the office'
The filing claimed 'Katya' was 'office code' and a euphemism for a 'trophy secretary'
'As early as October of 2014, Ms. Rabbi was told by [lawsuit defendant, Venable partner Alex] Weingarten, who yelled at her, that she was "useless to him" and like a "child",' Rabbi's August 2019 complaint said.
'Finally, he drove her from his desk after deciding that he deserved a young, attractive secretary like his partner Douglas Emhoff had. Her name, Katya, was office code. "Katya" refers to an assistant hired by Douglas Emhoff who was widely considered unqualified and hired because she was young, attractive and friendly with the powerful men in the office,' Rabbi's lawsuit said.
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The legal filing added that in September 2017, Weingarten walked in on a meeting involving Rabbi, and said 'without prompting' that 'Ms. Rabbi should be assigned to do filings and work with Jeff Logan and Eric Bakewell so that he could 'have [him] self a Katya.'
'This was not the first or last time Weingarten referred to 'Katya' as a euphemism for a trophy secretary,' Rabbi's lawsuit said.
'Ms. Rabbi heard him comment at one time that every partner should have a "Katya".'
Rabbi was referring to Katya Calderone, 36, who began working at the firm in 2014.
Calderone worked part-time as a model, including for 'bikes and babes' fashion brand Manco, and has been pictured partying at the Playboy Mansion, in GQ Magazine at Coachella Festival, socializing with Hollywood actors, and trying out for Bravo reality TV show Millionaire Matchmaker.
The lawsuit referred to Katya Calderone, 36, who began working as a legal administrative assistant at Venable in 2014
Calderone, who currently works as a legal practice specialist at DLA Piper, was featured in photos for Calderone Law Firm
Emhoff, who went on to work at law firm DLA Piper in Los Angeles in 2015, attended The Hollywood Reporter Power Lawyers Breakfast in March 2019
Her LinkedIn says she was a legal administrative assistant at Venable from May 2014 to October 2017, and a 'Legal Practice Specialist' at DLA Piper's Century City, Los Angeles office thereafter – the law firm Emhoff also moved to in 2017.
The LinkedIn page says she 'is supporting partners Stuart Liner and Douglas Emhoff,' at DLA.
Despite Rabbi's claim that Calderone was 'unqualified', the former model lists a 2010 paralegal certificate from UCLA on her LinkedIn, and had three other legal assistant roles beginning in 2008 before joining Venable.
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Venable's employment contract meant the company was able to force Rabbi to move her case to an out-of-court arbitration – a controversial practice which prevents some sex discrimination and misconduct claims being aired in open court.
The lawsuit appears to have been settled, and was dismissed in November 2021 at Rabbi's request.
Some former staffers told DailyMail.com they had positive experiences with Emhoff.
One female ex-senior staffer said she found him 'supportive', and that he 'had a genuine interest in the firm and the younger folks in the firm'.
And a male former top partner at Venable said Emhoff was 'respected and liked'.
Emhoff, who specialized in entertainment law among other areas, joined Venable in 2006, founding the national law firm's LA office with 20 attorneys by merging his company Whitwell Jacoby Emhoff with another local shop Gorry Meyer & Rudd.
Emhoff was quickly promoted to 'Partner-in-Charge' of the LA office in 2007. He was named Managing Director, West Coast in August 2015, overseeing the firm's then-team of 70 in LA as well as their San Francisco office.
DailyMail.com previously broke the news that Emhoff's first marriage to wife Kerstin Emhoff (right) ended when he got his children's nanny, Najen Naylor (left), pregnant
When DailyMail.com approached Naylor she would not comment about her relationship with Emhoff or the baby. 'I'm kind of freaked out right now,' she said
Emhoff has two adult children from his previous marriage: son Cole, 29, and daughter Ella, 25, - who became stepchildren to Kamala in 2014
VP Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff dance at a party
He left and joined DLA Piper in 2017, taking a leave of absence in 2020 when Kamala Harris joined Joe Biden's presidential ticket.
While at Venable, Emhoff represented a nightclub owner accused of sexual harassment and sexual battery, an international arms dealer, and pharmaceutical giant Merck in a lawsuit over its controversial osteoporosis drug Fosamax.
The nightclub owner was accused in the lawsuit of spraying an employee's hair and body 'with a foreign substance' that he removed with 'his mouth, lips and tongue.' The case was settled out of court.
In 2011, Emhoff represented international arms dealer Dolarian Capital in a case against another weapons broker, who was accused of lying about securing an export license to ship thousands of AK-47s from Romania to the Afghan national army, according to the New York Times.
In 2019, Ara Dolarian, the owner and president of Dolarian Capital, was arrested by the FBI and charged with illegally brokering the sale of millions of dollars of military-grade arms from Eastern Europe to Nigeria without permission from the State Department.
Dolarian pleaded guilty that year and was sentenced in 2023 to 14 months in prison.
Emhoff was also part of the team defending pharmaceutical giant Merck in 2013, according to the New York Times, when it was sued over an osteoporosis drug, Fosamax, that 1,200 plaintiffs alleged caused their jaw bones to deteriorate.
Merck did $3billion in sales of Fosamax in 2007 alone. The company settled with the claimants in 2013 for $27.7million.
Neither Emhoff nor his representatives responded to DailyMail.com's request for comment.