A former Taco Bell executive Benjamin Golden, 32, recently made himself into a national scandal after being caught on videotape slapping Uber driver Edward Caban repeatedly in a drunken haze. Golden later gave a tearful apology saying “It’s not me in the video. It’s not me. It was hard to watch and I’m ashamed.” That shame appears to have now passed since he is suing Caban for $5 million. However, if those statements are admissible, he may learn that “silence is Golden”
The video shows Golden repeatedly slapping Caban and pulling the driver’s hair after Caban tells him to get out of the car on the evening of Oct. 30th.
Golden was fired after his drunken assault on Caban. Golden “sincerely apologize[d]” to the driver and his lawyer said “Mr. Golden accepts full responsibility for his actions and understands the consequences that may occur as a result.” That is a curious statement since he is now blaming Caban for the incident. He claims to have “suffered severe emotional distress, humiliation, anxiety, fear, pain and suffering” along with his loss of job.
Caban filed suit for more than $25,000 in damages for “assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and negligent infliction of emotional distress.”
In the meantime, Golden is moving to block the admission of the videotape in his criminal trial as illegally made by Caban since California is a two-party consent state.
Golden is also blaming those responsible for distributing the video and complaining that the “overwhelming media coverage” has caused him deep injury in showing this drunken conduct.
It is a fascinating convergence of cases: two civil and one criminal. Running throughout the case are interesting evidentiary questions. First, there is the suppression motion based on the unlawful videotape. This is a privately generated videotape however and not one done by or at the behest of the government. Then there are Golden’s own statements and whether the jury will be able to hear his apologies.
These evidentiary questions may ultimately dictate the outcomes in all of these cases and it will be worth watching.
I’m sure 5 million is just pocket change to that uber driver.
“I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73. … It never goes away,” Broaddrick tweeted.
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Bill Clinton was expelled from Oxford for an incident involving a female student and allegedly raped Juanita Brodderick.
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It was Bill Clinton’s move to hit the campaign trail on behalf of his wife that prompted the comments, in which Broaddrick reminds the world how he allegedly raped her, and bit her lip, and then left, telling her, “You better get some ice on that.”
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America tolerates some really disgusting “officials.” This guy, Bill Clinton, OJ Simpson, ex-Speaker Hastert, Bill Cosby, molesters in the Catholic church. Why does America tolerate this behavior – all this crime?
The whole place is corrupt, the Constitution nullified and the “brotherhood” of the “ruling class” keeps the truth well hidden.
Oops. I think I just spoke about the whole U.S. government in Washington D.C.
John – OJ Simpson and Bill Cosby are not officials. Bill Cosby has not been found guilty of anything yet.
Deutschland, Deutschland, uber alles….
Gah…..it IS definitely confirmed. A-hole and an unemployable one to boot. Would anyone here hire this guy after this?