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Cain Campaign Update: Coulter Blames "Liberal Media" for Sex Harassment Allegations, Cain Now In Trouble for Campaign Finance

It isn't easy being the front-runner--suddenly your whole operation, your personal past, everything is under scrutiny. Herman Cain is the latest candidate in the hot seat.

After the allegations of "inappropriate behavior" in his past that may qualify as sexual harassment which rocked his campaign yesterday, Herman Cain is in defense mode, denying the reports and blaming the liberal media for their circulation.

Here he is on Fox News issuing one such denial:

Ann Coulter, unsurprisingly was the first out of the gate to use the Clarence-Thomas coined phrase "high-tech lynching" and blame the liberal media for this reporting.

The Raw Story reports:

Conservative columnist Ann Coulter is blaming liberals for reports that Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain covered up sexual harassment accusations against him.....

As the story broke Sunday night, Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera invited Coulter to be the first guest to comment on it. “It’s outrageous the way that liberals treat a black conservative,” Coulter complained. “This is another high-tech lynching.”

Meanwhile, the Cain campaign is getting heat about donations. A story in the Journal-Sentinel notes some transactions that may be breaking campaign finance laws:

Herman Cain's two top campaign aides ran a private Wisconsin-based corporation that helped the GOP presidential candidate get his fledgling campaign off the ground by originally footing the bill for tens of thousands of dollars in expenses for such items as iPads, chartered flights and travel to Iowa and Las Vegas - something that might breach federal tax and campaign law, according to sources and documents.

Internal financial records obtained by No Quarter show that Prosperity USA said it was owed about $40,000 by the Cain campaign for a variety of items in February and March. Cain began taking donations for his presidential bid on Jan. 1.

Prosperity USA was owned and run by Wisconsin political operatives Mark Block and Linda Hansen, Cain's current chief of staff and deputy chief of staff, respectively.

The authenticity of the records was verified by two individuals close to the firm.

We'll have more on both of these stories as they develop.

By Sarah Seltzer | Sourced from AlterNet