Posted on 04/18/2007 11:03:11 AM PDT by abb
A few months ago, former Duke University lacrosse captain David Evans was facing rape charges. He was shunned and taunted for his alleged role in a crime that North Carolina’s attorney general has declared never happened.
Now Evans has gained the trust of Morgan Stanley Chief Executive John Mack, a Duke alum and trustee (class of ‘68) who went to bat for Evans after serious questions were raised about the case against he and his two former teammates.
Evans now has landed one of the most prestigious jobs on Wall Street, Deal Journal has learned. Morgan Stanley has hired Evans, who graduated in May 2006, as part of its analyst program. Landing a plum job — which is paying well into the six-figure range these days — has to be a satisfying end to a bitter sequence of events for Evans since the rape allegations surfaced in March 2006.
The 24-year-old Maryland native had a job lined up at J.P. Morgan Chase’s investment bank that was rescinded in the wake of his May 2006 indictment, with the bank telling him it probably wasn’t the best time to be starting a new job. After he was cleared recently, J.P. Morgan came back to Evans and made a new offer, which he declined.
J.P. Morgan declined to comment. We’re trying to get comment from Evans and will post again if and when that happens.
But don’t expect his life to resume the course it was on any time soon. When asked by Leslie Stahl in a recent “60 Minutes” show whether the dismissal of the charges means the ordeal is over for him, Evans said, “I don’t think it really will ever be over … when I die, they’ll say ‘one of the three Duke lacrosse rape suspects died today...
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...
“Living well is the best revenge.”
George Herbert
English clergyman & metaphysical poet (1593 - 1633)
Ping
The MSM is deeply saddened.
Now that is good news - good for him - I wish him the best of luck and success.
Good for him. I hope he and his buddies still sue the pants off of everybody they can...
These kids still irk me.
I’m glad they are off, what happened to them was beyond repugnant. I hoped they learned not to hire strippers in the future. Lie down with dogs . . .
Mack wants his firm to handle the money he’s going to take off of Durham.
It happened..it’s done and can’t be undone. Either these boys take this experience and move on and learn some life lessons or they stay victims their whole lives as well. I believe everything happens for a reason. I hope these boys learn what the reason was and become better people for it.
I thought this would happen. It’s sweeter yet because he was hired by a Duke alum. My concern is that someone unstable who is very unhappy about this will try to deliver their own “justice.” There’s way too many people who feel that something did happen. But I hope that that they can get on with their lives.
“Mack wants his firm to handle the money he’s going to take off of Durham.”
I hope they have to sell the hospital and water tower to come up with the cash owed in the settlement. This bunch of low-rent racists deserves no mercy.
The boys don’t irk me, but I’ve been concerned that we’ve all gotten so caught up with the injustice done against them that they’ve become heroes, sort of. They are not that. They made a very poor decision to hire those strippers and said awful things. I DO want them to get on with their lives, but for their own sakes, I hope that they see that poor action on their own part laid the path for what happened. I’m not saying that was their fault; we know differently. But they weren’t behaving as they should have either. I’m very glad that they’ve been declared innocent.
My sentiments exactly.
Is there subtle shading on the phrasing of that sentence, or am I just suffering from CPD (Clinton Parsing Disease)? To me, that is not the same as "in an alleged crime that was later found to have never occurred."
Wait till he sees how much the government takes out of his paycheck.
all these kids will land on their feet. most likely much better than that. duke is a tight knit alumnus and lacrosse is even tighter. older players and their powerful families will jump at the chance to help these guys with a job or whatever. their lives are not ruined by a long shot.
Also, this just in...
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-liduke0419,0,665887.story?coll=ny-linews-headlines
Finnerty seeks Duke DA’s resignation
BY JOSEPH MALLIA
joseph.mallia@newsday.com
April 18, 2007, 1:26 PM EDT
Collin Finnerty wants to turn the tables on the North Carolina district attorney found to have wrongfully prosecuted him.
The former Duke lacrosse player, through his attorney Michael Cornacchia of Manhattan, has asked top North Carolina officials to demand the resignation of Durham District Attorney Michael Nifong, and to order a criminal investigation into Nifong’s conduct and the conduct of several Durham police officers.
“Incredibly, Mr. Nifong continues in office as the chief law enforcement officer in Durham County, making life-altering decisions about who should be the subject of prosecution and handling the most sensitive and important cases,” Cornacchia wrote to Gov. Mike Easley and Attorney General Roy Cooper, of North Carolina, in a letter dated Tuesday.
“(Attorney) General Cooper branded Mr. Nifong as a ‘rogue’ and ‘unchecked’ prosecutor because he had three innocent, young men, arrested, indicted and prosecuted for crimes that General Cooper found did not occur,” the letter says.
A copy of the Finnerty lawyer’s letter was obtained Wednesday by Newsday.
Cooper last week swept away any doubts as to the innocence of Collin Finnerty, 20, of Garden City, Reade Seligmann, 21, of Essex Fells, N.J., and David Evans, 24, of Bethesda, Md. All three were arrested and spent more than a year under the cloud of Nifong’s public condemnation after an exotic dancer falsely accused them of raping, sexually assaulting and kidnapping her during an off-campus party in March 2006.
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Two of the accused actually LEFT when/before the strippers arrived and weren’t even THERE when the strippers were!
Evans should call Nifong and give him some good financial advice: pork bellies.
Your first sentence summed it up very well. I haven’t seen much condemnation of the party from those that wished to see them exonerated.
Nope. They’re shading it.
Three guesses as to the ethnicity or political persuasion of the reporter and editor.
EXCELLENT!
you're a mom. I'm a dad. If this is the worst these guys did, then what's to worry?
Men and women behave differently. There is a stage that men go through; let's call it their 'right of passage' for want of a better term. It's part of growing up, and part of pushing the envelope. Not all men do it, but it's there.
Yes, I pushed the envelope, although not in this exact way. And, yes, my mom (my dad was quite ill at the time) knew about it, but didn't put the hammer down and didn't preach. I turned out pretty good, if I do say so myself.
Lesson? Not everyone may behave the way you expect (or want). That doesn't make them shameful or criminal. Perhaps we should wish for more non-invasive nuisance instead of politically correct cultural prohibition. It just might get the testosterone levels back in balance so the youths can go on to lead even more productive adult lives. Something to think about?
I think hiring a stripper is shameful. I have raised my boys to respect women and to respect their own sexuality. God did not give us our sexuality to degrade another human being.
Your post was too heavily loaded with moral and personal judgment. They committed no illegal act and the judgment of their actions is not up to any one but God. You may not approve, but it shouldn’t be our place to disapprove of someone else’s behavior.
Don’t know, but the tenor of your last two arguments seemed in appropriate.
Seligmann and Finnerty were not even present when the purported "awful things" were said. I say purported because the only 'objective' eyewitness, a guy named Bissey, has posted on another board that he never heard the "N-word". It's not in his deposition, either.
I suggest you at least gain some basic facts about this hoax before further smearing these innocent young men.
The Fong as he's led off in handcuffs: "TURN THOSE MACHINES BACK ON!! TURN THOSE MACHINES BACK ON!!"
They did something pretty dumb, as have most of us. I did some pretty stupid stuff in three years in college—got puking drunk a couple of times, drove friends to buy weed once (but never used the stuff myself), drove drunk more than once. By the grace of God, I never had anything bad happen, other than a few hangovers and a bad case of “man, did I really do something that stupid?”
I agree with you—what happened to them is far, far beyond anything that should have happened considering what they did, but I hope they learned from it. They seem pretty intelligent, so I think they did. (If nothing else, I imagine they’ll be confining their viewing of strippers to strip joints from now on.)
}:-)4
College kids experiment a lot. Give them a break. Sheesh!
Their choice of "entertainment" was not particularly admirable but given that they were young red-blooded males w/little outside of practice to do with everyone else gone, understandable...at least, to some less critical folks...and they now know it.
Let's lay off the criticisms; they've suffered enough, don't you think?
If your son was Colin Finnerty, the above would be a true story. What would you tell him to do differently?
It shouldn’t be our place to disapprove of someone else’s behavior?! That’s a particularly liberal-like thing to say. Disapproval of someone else’s behavior is all we do around here!
It’s inappropriate to point out that watching a woman strip who is not your wife is wrong?
It’s inappropriate to point out that hiring an unknown woman to come in and perform such acts, combined with copious amounts of alcohol, might result in trouble?
Just send boys off to college and let them do anything they want, I guess. Boys will be boys. Better not expect them to have good character and good judgement.
That's got to be the most naive statement I've read all week.
That’s true, but many, many of them stayed. And if his friends hadn’t hired the stripper, he never would have been in that mess.
These kids were railroaded and if you look at my original post, I think it was repugnant.
I just don’t agree. I entirely agree with PA Mom. Yes, they’ve suffered enough, but nowhere have I seen them mentioned as anything but “heroes” who stood up to the system. Except on Bill Bennett’s morning show; he addressed this. I admire them and their families for how they got through this and they well desire admiration for that. And it’s great that they practiced on campus. After all, they are athletes.
But it’s comments like yours that makes me worry. That its understandable red-blooded male practice. It’s anything but! I have a daughter that age and it scares the life out of me that anything sees this as normal. If these had been my sons, they would probably have been more scared of me than the DA.
In all fairness, conservative political forces were using this case to prove an obvious point to about a judicial system that has gone awry. The fact that Imus was fired when these boys were cleared was rather convenient news wise, in light of Sharpton’s involvement in both situations.
But if the team didn’t hire her, this never would have happened. Very bad judgement that turned almost tragic.
A point well made.
Wishing the young man all the very best.
That's one viewpoint. Not all agree. Yes, I've been to strip-joints (many years ago, and as an adult) and, no, I didn't consider it shameful; simply a walk on the wild side. Nor did I consider it degrading the character of a woman who'd chosen that lifestyle on her own accord. Would I do it today? Nope!
I simply don't believe these boys are any less of character because of this party. Nor do I believe that makes them less mindful of a woman's respect (which can also be assessed by the work she performs).
I agree. But it just didn’t seem appropriate in this instance.
Frankly, your comments are repugnant to me.
JP Morgan made an offer and rescinded it after the allegations arose. Then they made another offer after his innocence was declared, which he refused. He did take a job offer at Morgan Stanley, an entirely different company.
I hope this really pisses off terry moran.
Don't overlook the best part of this news item. The story doesn't say, but did he tell them where to put their new offer?
“Living well is the best revenge.”
George Herbert
English clergyman & metaphysical poet (1593 - 1633)
You will never know just how important that quote was to my life...and yep, it does apply here.
I’m very happy this young man is getting on with his life, and kudo’s to Morgan Stanley for hiring him.
I think its time to consider the ramifications of this happening to those that don’t have the resources to fight such a horrific battle legally, and in the public’s eye.
Nifong should be jailed for what he’s done.
Going to a strip club, while still immoral, is far less dangerous than what these boys did.
They invited two unknown women into that house. A tailor-made situation for a rape charge. Men need to know they are at risk of such a thing whenever they are alone with an unknown female. If she’s a nutjob, you are in trouble.
So, you’re going to hold the people who *didn’t* participate in the activity responsible for something they didn’t do?????
Go stand in the corner with Nifong.
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