Ha, that was also part of the deal.

Same with me, I had to offer a letter of recommendation and refused to lie. (In my case she had actually falsified her resume about her accounting certification.) They wrote it in the most generic way so it essentially said she had worked for me in a certain capacity for X period of time.

The thing with Cathie though, it's already a matter of public record because they put out a News Release. If anyone does a google search they are going to see she sued her former employer and that would throw up a red flag.