Posted on 10/30/2006 3:04:46 AM PST by abb
Corrupt Duke admissions process?
Brodie interviewed on Nightline.
Fleishman and the rich admits.
Ralph Lauren's kids. Nasty!
NYT Club owner recants affidavit. Says it is Crystal in the vid and she worked 23/24/25 March.
23rd is just seven days after her painful Gottlieb interview.
We will get closer...
She was dancing the week prior, too.
Says he found records after giving Nifong an affidavit....
Needs to file a new one.
Now we need to get his records from 16/17/18 March.
Why doesn't Nifong/DPD knowhen she was working already?
They didn't ask her, and they haven't investigated anything.
They only investigate what they see on the blogs....
Someone get Dr. Olatoye a washcloth so he can wipe the egg off his face.
It's a Duff Wilson article, too!
I'll bet Crystal told the Fong that she couldn't work, too.
I hope the police have been transporting her back and forth to/from a Hillsborough hotel to "hide out" and see her kids, etc.
Serve the idiots right...
Duke Rape Accuser Was at Work 10 Days Later, Club Owner Says
By DUFF WILSON, The New York Times, November 3, 2006
DURHAM, N.C., Nov. 2 — The woman who accused three Duke University lacrosse players of raping and assaulting her after she was hired to strip at a party on March 13 went back to work at a strip club 10 days later, the owner of the club said in an interview on Thursday.
Defense lawyers said that information undercut the woman’s credibility because she would have been performing even as she continued to complain to doctors about pain.
The degree of the woman’s injuries has been central to the case. According to case files, detectives found that she had difficulty walking or sitting in the days immediately after she reported being attacked and that she told medical personnel up until several weeks later that her neck and back pains were a result of the attack.
Last month, “60 Minutes” broadcast a video excerpt that it said showed her dancing at a club two weeks after the party.
Victor O. Olatoye, owner of the Platinum Club in Hillsborough, N.C., where the woman worked, had signed an affidavit for the Durham district attorney saying she had not performed at his club since February, and that the video had to have been taken before March 13.
But in the interview Thursday, Mr. Olatoye, 44, said that after filing his affidavit on Oct. 18 he found records showing that the woman had worked on March 23, March 24 and March 25. Mr. Olatoye also said he recognized her dancing on the video, even though her face was obscured.
“I saw the clip and I believe that was her, yes,” he said, adding that she has not worked at the club since March 25.
Mr. Olatoye said that a day after he had signed the affidavit he told the district attorney’s office that he needed to change it. But an investigator for the office, Linwood Wilson, said Mr. Olatoye never told him about the new information, and added that he was now expected to file a new affidavit on Friday.
William J. Thomas II, a lawyer representing a lacrosse player who was not indicted, said the video showed a “vigorous dance routine.”
“I would say someone who continues to dance and perform in these clubs as she has would be inconsistent with someone who was in great pain,” Mr. Thomas said.
The woman, who could not be reached for comment, complained of intense vaginal pain during a sexual assault exam on March 14 and then could barely walk or sit without pain on March 16, according to a case report by a police investigator.
Hospital records show visits on March 15, March 28 and April 3 in which she cited neck and knee pain from the alleged attack. In at least one visit, she asked for a narcotic painkiller. The woman had a history of neck and back pain and was taking Flexeril, a powerful muscle relaxant, the files show.
Joseph B. Cheshire, a lawyer for one defendant, said Mr. Olatoye’s statement was “powerful evidence.” Mr. Cheshire said the woman’s activities contradicted her claims of injury and her statement to Michael B. Nifong, the district attorney, that she was still too traumatized to talk about the case on April 11.
Mr. Olatoye said the woman, 28, had worked at the club since the end of 2005, was reliable and left work early on weeknights for classes at North Carolina Central University. “The lady has to work,” he said. “We shouldn’t judge her for her work.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/us/03duke.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin
Cheek Wants Votes, Not Job
WTVD by Gerrick Brenner
(11/02/06 -- DURHAM) - A candidate for Durham district attorney is asking voters to support him, but reminding them that he does not want the job.
Lewis Cheek is not new to politics. He is a Durham County commissioner and former city councilman. The searing national spotlight of the Duke lacrosse rape case brought Cheek into the race for Durham district attorney. He thinks District Attorney Mike Nifong botched the case, but five days before the election, Cheek says he still dislikes the attention.
"I didn't really want to be here," Cheek said at a Thursday afternoon press conference. "I hope I don't offend anybody by saying that."
Cheek is reminding voters that if elected, he will not serve.
"It doesn't matter how many votes I get on Tuesday," he said. "I will not take the job."
Cheek wants voters to bounce Nifong because of the Duke lacrosse case, but then have Governor Mike Easley appoint a new Durham County district attorney.
Cheek came forward again Thursday because of rumors that he secretly wants the top prosecutor's job. His voice cracked at times - - and at one point, he fought back tears.
The other candidate in the race is Steve Monks, a Republican. He has been urging voters to write in his name on Election Day. Monks admits that having three people in the race makes it very difficult for either Cheek or himself to beat Nifong. He says he would drop out if he was convinced Cheek had a good chance of beating Nifong.
Recent polling shows Nifong with a large lead in the race.
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=local&id=4721523
Why wouldn't the police just ask for her employment records? Why get an affidavit from the owner?
It had to be Linwood who arranged the affidavit of the club owner....
What a bunch of incompetent screwups they've got arresting people in Durham!
Let's all go back to the N & O's interview of the accuser on March 24th.
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/421799.html
Shame on the N & O!
Crystal was dancing the 23rd, and danced the night of the interview, and the night after!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12065671/
Khanna was on Abrams on the 28th, too.
Now we need to know when Kristiana Bennett interviewed Crystal. Had to around there somewhere....
March 28 MSNBC Abrams interview excerpt worth looking at again:
ABRAMS: Are you convinced there was a rape here?
NIFONG: I am convinced that there was a rape, yes, sir.
ABRAMS: And why are you so convinced of that?
NIFONG: The circumstances of the case are not suggestive of the alternate explanation that has been suggested by some of the members of the situation. There is evidence of trauma in the victim‘s vaginal area that was noted when she was examined by a nurse at the hospital. And her general demeanor was suggested—suggestive of the fact that she had been through a traumatic situation.
ABRAMS: When you say an alternate explanation that‘s being offered by some of the people who were there, what is that?
NIFONG: Well, the—I don‘t want to go into a lot of the details of the evidence right now, but obviously, the story that these people were hired to dance and were asked to leave is the alternate story.
ABRAMS: So that there was no sexual activity at all is the alternate story?
NIFONG: That would be the alternate story.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12065671/
Fellow dancer confirms claim
By John Stevenson : The Herald-Sun, Nov 2, 2006 : 10:27 pm ET
DURHAM -- Following in the footsteps of a former bouncer, another person has surfaced to refute a club owner's claim that the accuser in the Duke lacrosse rape case stopped doing exotic dances at his Hillsborough nightspot in February.
A fellow dancer now contends she saw the Duke lacrosse rape accuser performing at Hillsborough's adults-only Platinum Club after the night of March 13-14, lawyers close to the case said Thursday.
The timeline is critical because the accuser alleged she was raped the night of March 13-14 by three men during an off-campus lacrosse party at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. She then complained to physicians and police that she suffered extreme pain for days.
Lawyers did not reveal the other dancer's name or make her available for an interview Thursday.
They said only that it was not Kim Roberts Pittman, who performed with the accuser at the 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. party on the night the rape allegedly occurred.
Since then, Roberts has branded the rape allegations as "a crock." She also told ABC TV last week that the accuser asked her --Pittman -- to put marks on the accuser's body, apparently to make it appear the accuser had been assaulted.
District Attorney Mike Nifong could not be reached for comment Thursday.
Including the newly surfaced dancer, at least three people now refute club owner Victor Olatoye's assertion that the alleged rape victim did not perform in his nightclub after February.
In a sworn affidavit, a copy of which was obtained by The Herald-Sun this week, Olatoye said he had reviewed a recent CBS TV "60 Minutes" video clip that purported to show the accuser dancing in his club on March 26.
He disputed the timing of the clip.
"The video is at my club and was prior to the rape," Olatoye wrote. "I am certain of this because [the accuser] has not stripped at my club since the rape occurred."
But, as reported in The Herald-Sun Thursday, former bouncer H.P. "Fats" Thomas told several defense lawyers he watched the accuser perform on March 17, 18 and 26. The woman's movements were supple, athletic and almost contortionist in nature, the attorneys paraphrased Thomas as saying.
In addition, as previously made public, a one-time driver for the alleged rape victim -- Jarriel Lanier Johnson -- told police in April that he took the woman to the Platinum Club between 11 p.m. and midnight on March 10.
Johnson's statement to officers is contained in court files.
"She went in and I remained in the car," he said. "Around 2 a.m. I go inside to find her. She asks me if we can stay for about another hour. She then asks me if we can stay just one more hour. We leave at 4:30 [a.m.], when the club closes."
Three young men have been charged with raping the woman. They are Collin Finnerty, Reade Seligmann and David Evans. Each of the three has proclaimed his innocence and each is free under $100,000 bond awaiting a trial that is expected to occur next year.
Durham lawyer Bill Thomas, representing an unindicted lacrosse player, said Thursday -- not for the first time -- that the combined weight of information about the accuser's conduct should encourage prosecutor Nifong to reexamine his case.
"She's at the hospital telling them she needs narcotics because of extreme pain, yet she was dancing normally at night," said Thomas. "She was clearly dancing. There's no question about it. It's troubling. The dike is going to break at some point. The truth is going to come out, and the whole world will know these boys [the indicted suspects] are innocent."
http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-784438.html
Bennett only spoke to the neighbors, but we may now know one of the things she found out...
On March 24, when The News & Observer reported that 46 lacrosse players had been ordered to submit DNA, the woman spent the morning inside her parents' home as her two young children explored the yard.
As she stepped off the screened-in porch, a gym bag slung over one shoulder, she was met by a reporter. Upon learning that reports of her allegations had surfaced in the newspaper, she put a hand over her mouth and gasped. Tears welled in her eyes.
She reported the incident, she said, because many men don't believe forcing a woman to have sex is a "big deal." She pulled her 7-year-old son toward her on the sidewalk.
"I'm just trying to get on with my life," she said softly.
Since then, she has not spoken publicly.
http://www.newsobserver.com/122/story/429338.html
I'll bet I know what was in the bag.....
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