Posted on 09/06/2014 11:19:20 AM PDT by aimhigh
Nearly three months after the city agreed on the settlement, a federal judge has signed off on $41 million to be given to the five men who, as teens, were wrongfully convicted of raping a jogger in Central Park.
According to the Daily News, "Under the deal approved by Magistrate Judge Ronald Ellis, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Yusef Salaam and Kevin Richardson will get $7.125 million for their years in prison, while Korey Wise will receive $12.25 million. The city will also pay an additional $285,000 in legal fees. The city, however, doesn’t admit to any wrongdoing in the case."
In 2002, Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau said (PDF) the convictions should be vacated, after an inmate named Matias Reyes, serving time for a rape-robbery, rape-murder and robbery, confessed to the 1989 Central Park rape. Testing showed his DNA matched the DNA found at the crime scene, and the five were set free. The Bloomberg administration avoided settling the case for years.
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NO. Give Mikey some credit here. He REFUSED to pay a dime to them for nearly his entire time in office, infuriating the race hustlers. Only when DeCommie-O took over was the reparations paid.
This is why I love FreeRepublic. Having read only this article, I was unaware of the Coutler articles. FR is good for continuing education,
No, there is no rape epidemic - but five mutants just got sprung. How about the pellet gun attack accompanied with anti-white slurs a month ago?
NYC is a cesspool, and their statistics are BS. A friend convinced me to take the family to Rockefeller Center years ago, and when I balked they assured me everything was better since Giuliani/Bloomberg. Stepping over homeless people in the subway, I realized that this was what he meant by “better” - they’d simply been driven out of sight.
Read the attached Ann Coulter story, she will bring you up to date on these rapists. They did it and now get paid big time for it.
This fraud is sickening. When I first heard the story I was angry at the false conviction, after reading the truth I am now sickened that the brutal rapist are getting away with it, even getting paid for it. Some of the 5 didn't actually rape her they just held her legs apart so others could rape her. These men readily admitted to this, even without coaxing told the story of what happened only that some of them didn't actually penetrate her vagina. All they did was hold her down and beat the S#!+ out of her.
They should be in prison until Hell freezes over. Vile scum!
No, these guys weren't just sprung, they were released from prison a dozen years ago. Your first mistake.
NYC is a cesspool, and their statistics are BS.
So you think there really is a secret rape epidemic? I'm confused.
Stepping over homeless people in the subway,
Have you ever been to an American city before? As in a city located in the United States of America with people in it? Reasonably sure all of them have homeless people.
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