I'm beginning to think that few people in the US legal system check anything very much (aside from the wonderful T Mez!).
I've been reading further developments in the Tara Reade case (the woman who has made sexual assault allegations against Biden). It now transpires that she has spent years as an 'expert witness' in domestic abuse trials, but may have lied about her qualifications. She claims having completed a degree at Antioch Uni. but a spokeswoman has said she didn't graduate nor was she a faculty member.
Defence attorneys in some of the domestic abuse cases where she acted as an expert witness are now planning to make retrial motions, to try to set free the men who were imprisoned.
People are commenting on social media that 'they could tell she was a liar because she kept changing her story'. Where was all the outcry around the changed stories in R and S's cases? (All we seemed to see was 'But TrAuMa!!').
(Article here sadly not readable in Europe)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/...credentials.html?referringSource=articleShare
https://www.businessinsider.com/con...redentials-as-expert-witness-2020-5?r=US&IR=T
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Edited to add these extracts from another article:
Biden accuser’s life marred by abuse and financial hardship
.....That accusation, which Reade made publicly for the first time in March, has revived difficult questions about how to evaluate allegations of assault in the era of #MeToo. It also has thrust Reade’s life story into the 2020 presidential race and, with it, scrutiny of a woman with a winding trail of extreme debt, an unfounded claim of educational attainment and questionable business practices. Along the way, some people who dealt with her found her duplicitous and deceitful, while others found her a heroic survivor.
....It is often not possible to conclusively resolve an allegation like the one Reade has made, where there are no witnesses and no timely police report.
So how her claim is evaluated turns largely on her credibility.
....Another of Reade’s aspirations was to be an actress, performing in “school theatre, community and regional theatre, sprinkled with some radio and television commercials,” according to her blog. She set out for California to pursue acting at age 17 and said she got a referral from a friend to informally train with Robert Reed, an actor best known for his role as the “Brady Bunch” father. She also said she scored an audition in New York for The Juilliard School’s exclusive acting program.
Reade said she learned at the audition that no scholarships were available and returned home brokenhearted when her father said he wouldn’t pay the tuition. The school declined to confirm whether Reade was selected for an audition.
She wrote in January that her father, who died in 2016, was physically and emotionally abusive throughout her childhood.
“Thwarting my college dreams was the mild bit, the rejection and the physical assaults set the stage for how I would walk into the world,” she wrote.
....Months later, Reade was evicted again over $12,750 in unpaid rent. She filed for bankruptcy and listed $406,407 in debts, including nearly $300,000 in unpaid school loans, $1,715 owed to a bail bondsman and $2,100 due to a locally owned grocery store.
— Reade enrolled in an advanced legal degree program through Southwestern Law School. The school sued Reade in 2016 over $22,000 in loans, which remain unpaid, according to an attorney working on the case.
— She launched a charity that aimed to provide pet food to impoverished animal owners. The group’s nonprofit status was revoked in 2017 after Reade failed to submit three years of mandatory tax filings, though she continued to solicit donations. In 2016, Reade tweeted that she was raising money for a nonprofit called Boudicca Rising Legal Assistance, which included a link to a GoFundMe page she created. There is no record of a nonprofit by that name in the IRS database. Reade raised $210 but said she eventually abandoned the effort because it was too difficult to sort out the logistics.
https://apnews.com/67821946538c64c9...=SocialFlow&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=AP
