Herman Cain Accuser's Workplace Complaint was Bounced at INS

One of Herman Cain's accusers has a history of filing workplace complaints.

The Associated Press reported Wednesday that Karen Kraushaar, 55, filed the complaint while working as a spokeswoman at the Immigration and Naturalization Service four years after she left the National Restaurant Association.

Three former supervisors familiar with Kraushaar's complaint said she initially demanded thousands of dollars in payment, a reinstatement of leave she used after a car accident in 2002, promotion on the federal pay scale and a one-year fellowship to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

Kraushaar left the INS after dropping the complaint in 2003, and went to work at the Treasury Department.

Kraushaar's complaint was based on supervisors denying her request to work full-time from home after the car accident, the AP said. Kraushaar also had been denied previous requests to work from home before the car accident.

She also complained about an email that a manager had circulated comparing computers to women and men. The complaint claimed that the email, based on humor widely circulated on the Internet, was sexually explicit, according to a supervisor.

The joke listed reasons men and women were like computers, including that men were like computers because "in order to get their attention, you have to turn them on." Women were like computers because "even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later retrieval."

While working at the restaurant association, Kraushaar complained that Cain had put his hand up to his chin and commented that she was about the same height as his wife. Cain denied any sexual harassment, but the NRA reportedly agreed to a $45,000 separation agreement with Kraushaar.