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The 24-year-old Maryland native had a job lined up at J.P. Morgan Chase’s investment bank that was rescinded in the wake of his May 2006 indictment, with the bank telling him it probably wasn’t the best time to be starting a new job.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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“Living well is the best revenge.”
George Herbert
English clergyman & metaphysical poet (1593 - 1633)
Ping
The MSM is deeply saddened.
Now that is good news - good for him - I wish him the best of luck and success.
Good for him. I hope he and his buddies still sue the pants off of everybody they can...
These kids still irk me.
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 . . .
Mack wants his firm to handle the money he’s going to take off of Durham.
It happened..it’s done and can’t be undone. Either these boys take this experience and move on and learn some life lessons or they stay victims their whole lives as well. I believe everything happens for a reason. I hope these boys learn what the reason was and become better people for it.
I thought this would happen. It’s sweeter yet because he was hired by a Duke alum. My concern is that someone unstable who is very unhappy about this will try to deliver their own “justice.” There’s way too many people who feel that something did happen. But I hope that that they can get on with their lives.
“Mack wants his firm to handle the money he’s going to take off of Durham.”
I hope they have to sell the hospital and water tower to come up with the cash owed in the settlement. This bunch of low-rent racists deserves no mercy.
The boys don’t irk me, but I’ve been concerned that we’ve all gotten so caught up with the injustice done against them that they’ve become heroes, sort of. They are not that. They made a very poor decision to hire those strippers and said awful things. I DO want them to get on with their lives, but for their own sakes, I hope that they see that poor action on their own part laid the path for what happened. I’m not saying that was their fault; we know differently. But they weren’t behaving as they should have either. I’m very glad that they’ve been declared innocent.
My sentiments exactly.
Is there subtle shading on the phrasing of that sentence, or am I just suffering from CPD (Clinton Parsing Disease)? To me, that is not the same as "in an alleged crime that was later found to have never occurred."
Wait till he sees how much the government takes out of his paycheck.
all these kids will land on their feet. most likely much better than that. duke is a tight knit alumnus and lacrosse is even tighter. older players and their powerful families will jump at the chance to help these guys with a job or whatever. their lives are not ruined by a long shot.
Also, this just in...
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-liduke0419,0,665887.story?coll=ny-linews-headlines
Finnerty seeks Duke DA’s resignation
BY JOSEPH MALLIA
joseph.mallia@newsday.com
April 18, 2007, 1:26 PM EDT
Collin Finnerty wants to turn the tables on the North Carolina district attorney found to have wrongfully prosecuted him.
The former Duke lacrosse player, through his attorney Michael Cornacchia of Manhattan, has asked top North Carolina officials to demand the resignation of Durham District Attorney Michael Nifong, and to order a criminal investigation into Nifong’s conduct and the conduct of several Durham police officers.
“Incredibly, Mr. Nifong continues in office as the chief law enforcement officer in Durham County, making life-altering decisions about who should be the subject of prosecution and handling the most sensitive and important cases,” Cornacchia wrote to Gov. Mike Easley and Attorney General Roy Cooper, of North Carolina, in a letter dated Tuesday.
“(Attorney) General Cooper branded Mr. Nifong as a ‘rogue’ and ‘unchecked’ prosecutor because he had three innocent, young men, arrested, indicted and prosecuted for crimes that General Cooper found did not occur,” the letter says.
A copy of the Finnerty lawyer’s letter was obtained Wednesday by Newsday.
Cooper last week swept away any doubts as to the innocence of Collin Finnerty, 20, of Garden City, Reade Seligmann, 21, of Essex Fells, N.J., and David Evans, 24, of Bethesda, Md. All three were arrested and spent more than a year under the cloud of Nifong’s public condemnation after an exotic dancer falsely accused them of raping, sexually assaulting and kidnapping her during an off-campus party in March 2006.
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Two of the accused actually LEFT when/before the strippers arrived and weren’t even THERE when the strippers were!
Evans should call Nifong and give him some good financial advice: pork bellies.
Your first sentence summed it up very well. I haven’t seen much condemnation of the party from those that wished to see them exonerated.
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