Posted on 11/04/2006 1:31:54 AM PST by abb
Joseph Neff, Benjamin Niolet and Anne Blythe, Staff Writers DURHAM - Four days after she said she was raped, the accuser in the Duke lacrosse case told co-workers at a Hillsborough strip club that she was going to get money from some boys at a Duke party who hadn't paid her, the club's former security manager said.
"She basically said, 'I'm going to get paid by the white boys,' " H.P. Thomas, the former security manager at the Platinum Club, said in an interview Friday. "I said, 'Whatever,' because no one takes her seriously."
On March 14, the woman said she was assaulted and raped by three men at a lacrosse team party that began late on the night of March 13. Three players -- David Evans, 23, of Bethesda, Md.; Collin Finnerty, 20, of Garden City, N.Y.; and Reade Seligmann, 20, of Essex Fells N.J. -- have been charged with rape, sexual assault and kidnapping. All three have declared their innocence and called the accusations lies.
Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong declined to comment on Thomas' recollections. Thomas said he had not previously come forward on the advice of lawyers.
Nifong has said in court that nearly a month after the party, the woman was in his office and appeared too traumatized to talk about what had happened to her. Nifong said that throughout the April 11 meeting with Nifong and police investigators, the woman seemed near tears and had trouble making eye contact.
But less than a week after the party, Thomas said, the woman seemed fine, and weeks later, he realized a friend of his had a video of her dancing at the club in the early hours of March 26.
The accuser never gave any indication that the party was a bad time, let alone that she was assaulted or raped, Thomas said.
"She was as regular as pie," Thomas said. "She didn't do anything different."
The News & Observer generally does not identify the complainants in sexual assault cases. The woman could not be located for comment Friday.
On March 17, the woman showed Thomas a hospital bracelet and paperwork. While she talked about being owed money, the accuser never gave any word or indication of being hurt, he said.
"The other girls would have known if something had happened," Thomas said. "If another dancer had been beat up or raped by a bunch of white boys, there would have been a ruckus."
Records show she had been seen at Duke and UNC Hospitals on March 14 and 15.
Thomas said dancers must sign in when they take guests into the club's VIP room. He said those sheets show that the woman had signed in March 17 and 18. He said she also danced the following weekend.
The club's owner, Victor Olatoye, said the club's records show the woman was dancing at the club March 23, 24, 25 and into the early hours of March 26. Olatoye has no record of her working the previous weekend.
Olatoye said he had given a sworn statement to an investigator in Nifong's office last month initially saying that he had not seen the woman since February.
That night at the club, Olatoye checked his records and called the investigator back to change his sworn statement.
Olatoye said he has not seen the woman since March.
Thomas said he worked as security manager at the club from January through April. He said he had little to gain by coming forward because of a pending cocaine possession charge. Staff writer Joseph Neff can be reached at 829-4516 or jneff@newsobserver.com.
http://explore.georgetown.edu/news/?ID=19235
Liberian President Speaks to Georgetown Community
Speaking in Georgetown’s Gaston Hall Oct. 17, Africa’s first elected woman head of state looked beyond the effects of war in her country and called for solutions to some of the world’s greatest challenges and conflicts.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf referred to her own election in November 2005 as the moment her government was given “the greatest opportunity that can come to any leader – the chance to rebuild a nation on the ruins of war.”
Johnson Sirleaf delivered the fifth annual Goldman Sachs Distinguished Lecture, sponsored by the Mortara Center for International Studies. The annual lecture is a tribute to Michael P. Mortara (F'71) by Goldman Sachs and is held annually for the Georgetown community, featuring an internationally recognized scholar or
And he is driving a hooker around?
http://www.theperspective.org/pressreleases/1028200601.html
Robert Sirleaf, the son of President Sirleaf, was also instrumental in making the event a success. Mr. Sirleaf is Managing Director of Wachovia Capital Markets. Mr. Sirleaf is a Board Member of LET, who has also made the education of young girls in Liberia a prime objective.
Remember our questions
Why is he driving Miss Medina around
Why has he faded into the shadows? Why has no one mentioned him except that one brief article in the N&O
What did he do wit her before going to the party?
There was a statement from Kim and Jarriel, not Brian?
It is as if he was given a pass by the cops and the media..
Isn't Wachovia one of the companies that will or did apologize for slavery?
That is because "every case of heterosexual intercourse is a rape."
Wachovia apologizes for slavery ties
http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/02/news/fortune500/wachovia_slavery/
That might explain the tendency to apologize
Think back to the beginning and the accusations of Rich, white, elitist white boys hiring the strippers.
I assumed with everyone else that the drivers were skanky, lowlife.
Turns out they both come from "good" families.
Jarriel's mother is a pastor.
His sister is working on her masters.
Brian Taylor has INTERNATIONAL connections.
And not once. Not one damned time has the media mentioned it.
You and I know damned well the papers know who Ambulai Johnson is.
And my God, how many times has Bob Bennet's connections been referred to as evidence of their elitism.
We always said Nifong was screwing with the Power Players, but it seems as if Brian Taylor knows some power players.
Another questions:
What brought Ambulai to Durham?
He was a committee chair and on the advisory board of:
http://www.liberiafirst.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20050311012309/www.liberiafirst.com/committees.htm
http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2006/11/more-nifong-demagoguery.html
Monday, November 06, 2006
More Nifong Demagoguery
This morning, buffeted by allegations that he ignored a sexual harassment complaint filed against a politically well-connected assistant district attorney and facing strong endorsements for the Recall Nifong-Vote Cheek line in the Chronicle and DBR, Durham County's minister of justice offered his latest in campaign demagoguery.
In an e-mail sent to his supporters with a request that they forward it far and wide, the district attorney played the self-pity card, describing himself as the victim of “the most negative local ads that I have seen in my nearly three decades here.” Some might say when a District Attorney violates as many procedures as Nifong has, he’s opened himself up for criticism.
(snip)
These people may be coming thru NCCU-- foreign exchange
program..
13 February 1992
How close is Liberia to Nigeria, LOL!
Wonder if Ambulai knows the good Dr.O
(It's all about the O)
Damon passed 1999. I was wondering f they might have met at the hospital.
It is close enough for the former president to flee there!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_G._Taylor
Both had kidney problems; Damon - diabetes, Carnell - nephrotic_syndrome
http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/childkidneydiseases/nephrotic_syndrom/index.htm
Hitting my headon the table:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_G._Taylor
Charles Ghankay Taylor (born January 28, 1948) is a Liberian leader who served as President of Liberia from 1997 to 2003. He was a prominent warlord in the Liberian Civil War in the early 1990s, was elected president, was forced into exile, and now faces trial.
In December 1989 Taylor launched an armed uprising from Côte d'Ivoire. His forces, known as the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), soon controlled most of the country. Then-president Samuel Doe was overthrown, and tortured to death the following year by Prince Johnson, at that time an ally of Taylor. Doe's fall led to the political fragmentation of the country into violent factionalism. In mid-1990, Prince Johnson's supporters split from Taylor's group and captured Monrovia for themselves, depriving Taylor of outright victory.
The civil war turned into an ethnic conflict, with seven factions fighting for control of Liberia's resources (especially iron ore, diamond, timber, and rubber). Up to 200,000 people were killed, and more than 1 million were forced from their homes.
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Taylor..............
You don't think that maybe ..........
You don't think that maybe ..........
My guess is not.
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