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Article: NAACP cleared of having to pay settlement in Benjamin Chavis' harassment case. (former executive director of the NAACP)
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- Jet
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- June 24, 1996
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The NAACP recently was cleared by a jury of having to pay any part of a $332,400 settlement that was reached by former executive director Benjamin Chavis after a former employee accused him of sexual harassment (JET, Sept.5, 1994).
The D.C. Superior Court jury ruled that Mary E. Stansel, Chavis, former executive assistant, must repay $63,800 of the money she already has received from the civil rights organization and that Chavis must return $5,400 that the NAACP paid on his behalf.
In November of 1993, Chavis made a deal to pay Stansel $332,400 in NAACP funds. She claimed that the 48-year-old ex-NAACP chief repeatedly asked her to have sex and that she finally ...