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The 24-year-old Maryland native had a job lined up at J.P. Morgan Chase’s investment bank that was rescinded in the wake of his May 2006 indictment, with the bank telling him it probably wasn’t the best time to be starting a new job.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...
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Okay, this is just to YOU.
Unreal isn't it?
Can't believe you're being attacked with a large amount of venom here for saying so.
Then I go on another thread and get beat up by evangelicals. Wow. Great fun.
SO, if you agree, why do you keep painting him with the “if they didn’t hire a stripper” brush? How is he responsible for the actions of others, especially when he disagreed with it enough to leave the premises?
I imagine the conversation went something like this:
“We’re hiring a stripper, want to kick in?”
“No, thanks, I have stuff to do, see you later.”
“OK, bye!”
*HE* didn’t hire the stripper. He has nothing to be ashamed of, and since he didn’t have anything to do with it, why do you think he should have “learned something from it”?
Can't believe it.
I was just fixin' to post that quote myself.
Understanding is not necessarily condoning. Do you not understnd the difference? Or are you having too much “fun” playing Pearl Pureheart?
And I had to laugh when I saw that epicene puritan comment.
I think the problem here is that we are so angry at the DA and have an agenda ourselves. We hate the double standards of race in the country, we hate out of control courts, we hate white males being the lowest form of life in this country. (I have a husband and four boys—I am all about the white male!)
That makes it hard to admit that these boys (in general, I know Colin left) did not use the best judgement or morality.
People do legal, but stupid things all the time. The point, which you cant seem to appreciate, is that if they werent white, middle class, male heterosexual law abiding citizens, "this thing that happened", never would have..
That is more than just ironic, it's also horrifying, frightening, and tragic. Thats what you can't seem to grasp, probably because youre just another one of those agenda-driven people who think THEY are always right and if you don't agree with them , you are going to H---. Nothing else matters except your little agenda. .. Which makes you insufferable, IMO.
He isn’t responsible for their actions. I’m not painting him with the same brush. But if THE OTHERS did not hire her, he would not have a problem. I am not saying he could have prevented them from doing so. Like I’ve said several times now, he was screwed.
Then why won’t anyone say it’s wrong? I understand kids will drink underage. It’s wrong. I understand kids will hire strippers. It’s wrong. I understand Governors will drive 91 in a 55. It’s wron.
see my #89. Goes to this.
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 . . .
All very well - but you are judging them by their reaction to temptations to which you yourself are not subject.For that matter, can you prove that you didn't assault someone last night? These guys have an official judgement that, at that particular time, they were "innocent." Can you make that claim?
Of course they shouldn't have hired strippers. I could have, and would have, told you that. But the issue is the contrast between the way their accusers have been treated, and how the Rutgers team's insulter has been treated. You can cast aspersions on the Duke 3 without fear. You try agreeing with Imus, and see what it gets you! And the Duke 88 was dead serious, whereas Imus was trying for laughs.
You are insufferable. Stop casting stones, you never know when one might come into your life.
Judging from her writings, my bet is thats about all the fun she ever has. Quite sad.
I actually don’t feel that if you don’t agree with me you are going there. I usually get ragged on in other threads because I don’t think people are going to H’. I don’t think these kids are damned for what they did. But they did not show good character or judgement in hiring a stripper.
This story is just about to start to get interesting. There appear to be a couple or three dozen lawyers discussing the situation on the main Duke forums which deal with the case and the general opinion is that they’ve never seen this much blood in the water in their lives. Anticipate billion dollar lawsuits against Duke and the city of Durham and a hundred or so million dollar suits against individuals. The fact that the two undergrads have both declined offers to return to Duke is an indication of what’s about to happen.
Continuing to hammer them for this is overkill. You say you learn from your own mistakes. Let them have the same privilege.
After he was cleared recently, J.P. Morgan came back to Evans and made a new offer, which he declined.
Good for him! That was the right decision.
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