This was posted to another group I'm on, thought it might be of interest to
members of GrrlA.
Catherine

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Subject: [thirdwave] MAKE NOISE!! on this one
Date: Thursday 12 Jun 2003 11:48 pm
From: "ksundstar" <ksundstar@...>
To: thirdwave@yahoogroups.com

Hi friends:

this guy is STILL on NBC - still on the show as of Thursday afternoon.
Still entitled to 'pick' someone on this moronic tv show and STILL
going to get 1 million if he marries the girl he picks.

And nobody is telling these women that this guy is a perp. AND that
his affiliated law firm doesn't think sexual molestation is a
'private' matter and has dumped him.

Get NBC's attention!! CALL and E-MAIL THEM NOW!!

Demand they dump him. Demand they explain to all of us why groping and
sexual intimidation IS NOT grounds for removal.

spread this e-mail - get people on this and make it stick.

ever wonder why serial rapists and gropers decide they can do it over
and over with impunity?

maybe NBC can take a guess.

yeah, I'm steamed. damn right.

thanks, Karin

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For Love' Bachelor Fired
Jun 11, 3:43 PM EST

Zap2it.com

On Monday (June 9), The SmokingGun.com uncovered a shady secret in
"For Love or Money" star Rob Campos' past, and by Tuesday he was out
of a job.

TSG revealed that while in a Navy JAG training program, Campos got
drunk, stormed into a fellow trainee's room and groped her breasts.
The incident led to his removal from the military legal course,
despite the fact that both his official NBC biography and the one on
his law firm's Web site refer to his JAG Corps experience.

The investigation was handled by Naval Criminal Investigative Service
agents and no public charges were filed, preventing NBC investigators
from uncovering the information in a routine background check. Campos
didn't volunteer the information, which might have altered his
selection for the reality dating show in which the woman who wins his
heart will have to choose between love and a million-dollar prize.

While Campos apologized for failing to mention the incident, he
explained that he believed it to be a private matter.

Now that the scandal has gone public, though, Campos' Dallas-based law
firm, Mathur Law Offices, P.C., wants no part of the publicity. In a
statement posted on the firm's Web site on Tuesday, Sanjay S. Mathur
explains why Campos was let go.

Mathur is quick to explain that Campos only worked for the firm as an
independent contractor with "Associate Attorney" duties and that only
a basic criminal record background check was performed before hiring him.

"Since Mr. Campos has never been a formal 'employee' of this firm, the
firm simply will cease any additional work and we have asked him to
vacate his office space," the statement says.

The firm's decision was based on both the new information and on
Campos' behavior on "For Love or Money." In Tuesday night's episode,
the series' second, Campos got drunk and had Jacuzzi-centric revelry
with 10 women that one of the participants described as "disgusting."

"What is of greatest significance to us is that our firm vigorously
enforces the rights of individuals, many of them minorities, many of
them foreign to this country and many of them women," Mathur's
statement says. "We do not wish to allow any possibility of our
practice of law being perceived as unsympathetic to the causes we
strive so hard to protect."

In a statement released Wednesday through NBC, Campos said: "I was
never an employee of the Mathur law firm; I worked with them as an
independent contractor. I rented space at their office in Dallas and
did not receive a salary. I also maintained my own set of clients.
Although I will no longer be associated with that firm, I do plan to
continue in the private practice of law."

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