GLORIA ALLRED: Instead of receiving the help that [Sharon Bialek] had hoped for [in finding a job], Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a 'stimulus package,' which she will describe.
Bialek said that she met Mr. Cain during a conference for the National Restaurant Association when she worked for the NRA's education foundation in Chicago during 1996. Says Cain invited her and her boyfriend to a private party in his hotel suite.
She was fired from the NRA soon after, apparently for not raising enough money for the foundation. She said that, at the suggestion of her boyfriend, arranged a meeting with Mr. Cain in Washington to talk about her future with the NRA.
She says Cain hooked her up with a "palatial suite" in Washington, D.C. Cain told her later that he had arranged for the "upgrade."
Bialek says Cain took her to the NRA offices she thought they were going inside, but Cain reached under her skirt to grab her genitals and tried to force her head down to his crotch. She says she said: "What are you doing? That's not what I came here for." To which she alleges Cain responded "You want a job don't you?"
Bialek says she didn't file a complaint because she didn't work for the NRA.
SHARON BIALEK: I didn't tell them the details because, quite frankly, I was very embarrassed that Mr. Cain had been sexually inapproproiate to me.
...Allred won't let the press ask Bialek any questions, and says Bialek is not filing any claim against Cain or the NRA. She adds that Bialek approched her, but is not interested in selling her story.