Tracy Kasper, a REALTOR® from Nampa, Idaho, is a former President of the National Association of REALTORS®.
Courtesy: NAR
The president of the National Association of Realtors on Monday said she was resigning due to a threat to blackmail her.
NAR President Tracy Kasper said she had notified the group’s leadership team “that she recently received a threat to disclose a past personal, non-financial matter unless she compromised her position at NAR.”
Kasper “refused to do so and instead reported the threat to law enforcement,” NAR said in a statement.
Kasper’s predecessor as president, Kenny Parcell, resigned in August, two days after The New York Times published a story detailing claims he had sexually harassed women he worked with.
NAR CEO Bob Goldberg resigned in November, months earlier than planned, after a federal jury found the group and some residential real estate brokers were liable for a conspiracy to artificially inflate brokers’ commissions from home sales. NAR was ordered to pay $1.78 billion in that case.
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