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Waffle House CEO Claims Sex Charges Against Him Are False, ‘Extortion’: ‘A Victim of My Own Stupidity’

Nov. 14, 2012 6:34am Billy Hallowell

ATLANTA (AP) — The CEO of Waffle House said Tuesday that a former employee who claims he tried to force her to have sex actually was a participant in consensual sex and has been trying to blackmail him.

“I am a victim of my own stupidity, but I am not going to be a victim of a crime – extortion,” Joe W. Rogers Jr. said in a written statement.

The woman told Atlanta police last month that Rogers demanded she perform sexual acts in exchange for keeping her job and that he also tried to force her to have sex with him despite her repeated protests. She said this occurred for nearly 10 years, from 2003 through June of this year. The Associated Press does not generally identify alleged victims of sexual assault.

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Rogers identified the woman as his former housekeeper, and said she is not telling the truth.

“Over an almost eight-year period when I was separated, single and re-married, I had a series of infrequent consensual sexual encounters with my housekeeper,” Rogers said.

He said the woman worked for 15 hours a week from 2003 until she was let go in 2008. He said she later was rehired as his house manager and quit her job in June.

“Shortly thereafter, on July 16, 2012, I received a letter from her attorney containing false allegations and strong threats,” Rogers said. “According to her attorneys, she now wants millions of dollars from me.”

Rogers said he shared the letter from the woman’s attorney with his wife and they hired lawyers to look into the situation. Rogers and the woman sued each other, but documents in those cases were sealed.

Rogers’ attorney, Robert Ingram, said a Cobb County judge lifted a gag order in Rogers’ lawsuit Tuesday “so Joe could get his version of the story out.”

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“We’re doing that and we’re also pursuing remedies for Mr. Rogers in court based upon what appear to be violations of the court’s orders.”

Ingram said the woman made intimate videotapes involving Rogers, and he said the court demanded that she turn over those tapes.

“They were tapes that (she) recorded, which is a crime in the state of Georgia to record somebody when that person had an expectation of privacy and doesn’t consent to the recording,” Ingram said.

A hearing on the Cobb County lawsuit is scheduled Wednesday.

The woman’s attorney, David Cohen, phoned in a statement to The Associated Press late Tuesday disputing Rogers’ version of events.

“We understand he’s obviously trying to spin his wrongful actions in some positive light,” Cohen said. “We believe attempting to attack the victim will only make matters worse and that the parties just need to let a jury decide the issues. Our position and facts as they have evolved thus far are stated in our verified counterclaim filed in the courthouse, which is part of the record unsealed by the court today.”

In the police report, the woman identified herself as a single mother. She said she stayed in the job and submitted to Rogers because she couldn’t find other employment with comparable pay. She said she gave Rogers a letter of resignation in June after her son secured a full college scholarship.

Rogers said he was wrong to have sex with the woman during a period when he was separated and later remarried.

“That was wrong of me and I am very sorry for the pain and embarrassment I’ve caused my wife and family. There is no excuse for what I have done,” he said.

He added, “As personally embarrassing as this situation is for me, I am committed to the legal and law enforcement process to expose the motives of my former housekeeper and her attorneys.”

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charles116
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 4:10pm
He was just putting syrup on her pancake. Duh.

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LakeHartwellSailor
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 12:14pm
“In the police report, the woman identified herself as a single mother. She said she stayed in the job and submitted to Rogers because she couldn’t find other employment with comparable pay.”

Sex for money….does that not qualify as prostitution?

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Secret Squirrel
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 9:49am
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Sorry, if you’re the CEO of Waffle House, nobody cares.
What, she blackmailed you for extra bacon?

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- claymoremacm
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:31am
  Guess his mother did not read him Brer Fox and the Tar Baby,so applicable throughout our lives.
  
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makingsense
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 9:32am
Another woman that has found out there are two ways to score by ‘lying’. She enjoyed the sex, now the sex is gone so let’s go for the money. All with the parasite attorney hoping to make a few bucks from the out of court settlement. I admire the man for not settling, facing the extortion and embarrassment and fighting it. The lady’s attorney will soon back out as he or she is not interested in litigating it, only collecting on it. When it looks like the easy pot of gold is not at the end of the rainbow the lady and the attorney will disappear back into the hole they crawled out of. It is getting to the point where you need a contract prior to sex. Oh, isn’t that called marrage?

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SocialistSlayer
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 9:00am
Is he also involved in the Petraeus, Communist obama cover up ?

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- Cavallo
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 9:34am
  No she must be a SPY!!! Lets close down some waffle houses.
  
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vaman
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:45am
It looks like two consenting adults had sex and now the maid wants money. She would not have stuck around for 8 years if this was really harrassment.

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- ADNIL
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:43am
  she said that she stayed for the money. Kinda says it all, ya think?
  
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RaydocX
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:29am
Barack called him… If he agrees not to adjust his staffing to avoid Obamacare, he can be a three star general or secretary of defense

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Midwest Blonde
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:27am
I never understand how someone can stay on a job when she claims sexual misconduct of their employer. I’d quit, no doubts about it. Why didn’t this woman? Why did she continue working for him if he was (sexually) harassing her? Either the woman was a willing participant or she’s an idiot to think that she can get millions this late in the game.

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joeslick
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:22am
Wait a minute….she claims it’s against her will, but she can video tape it????? Right. Sounds like every other forcible rape case I’ve ever heard of.

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CorpsmanHM3
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:09am
Well everything needs to be polished now and then…

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ThankYouFounders
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:05am
Mentioning a “gag order” in a sex case is just too funny.

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KingCanon
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 7:37am
God id cleaning house!
More to come!

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DZ-015
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 7:35am
Looks like this lady waffled for a long time before deciding to go for the bacon.

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kvan
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 7:22am
Let’s see from 2003 to 2010, forced sex, hmmm! Why now?
What the hell was this woman thinking, sticking around for 7 years, even coming back to work for him after being let go!

No jury will find any fault except fault with her.

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Adonizedek
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 7:08am
Funny, I just got off of the night shift at my store.

This is a good man. He made a mistake, but I truly believe in my heart that he never forced his housekeeper to do anything she didn’t want to do.

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- piper60
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:43am
  Especially since she Videotaped the encounters. Appearently without his knowing it. I’d like to know how he didn’t know it was being taped.
  
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chucksue351
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 7:05am
why is this news worthy of the blaze

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- SingerGuy
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:23am
  Because I personally asked them to run stories like this, and they like me better than you because I use capitalization and punctuation in my posts. :-P
  
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JimCS
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 7:03am
It seems appropriate. There are many adulterers in a Waffle House at 3 a.m. Grabbing a quick bite, after a night of infidelity, before heading home to the spouse and kids. I still love the Waffle House, no matter what. Sort of the way some people feel about Obama.

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