Posted on 06/23/2006 7:38:56 AM PDT by zaxxon
The cousin of the alleged victim in the Duke University lacrosse rape case says alums of Duke quietly offered the accuser lots of money - a staggering $2 million early on to drop the charges, and go on with her life.
She told me they wanted her to make the case go away, Jakki (she will not reveal her last name in order to protect her family), the designated family spokesperson, told The Carolinian and Wilmington Journal newspapers in an exclusive interview June 19.
However Jakki adds that her younger cousin, the Black woman at the center of the nations most controversial criminal case, refused because she insists that she was indeed beaten and sodomized by the three indicted white Duke lacrosse team members - Colin Finnerty, Reade Seligmann and David Evans - each charged with first-degree rape, first-degree sexual assault and first-degree kidnapping.
(Excerpt) Read more at wilmingtonjournal.blackpressusa.com ...
I'm just catching up on reading after having been away....
IMO, the story is a crock.
By the way, cousin Jakki was giving TV interviews back in March or April....definitely a drag queen.
BS-noway that hustling ghetto snipe would turn down
2 million dollars.
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