Duke rape case. I am talking about the duke lacrosse scandal once known as the rape case. It happened in 2006, march 2006. To april 2007. By the way, it is still ongoing. That is another topic. At the time, it was the flight 370 at the time. Everybody was focused. When i went back to researching this and to study this and write about as a duke alum, i wanted to know what happened. There was never a trial and i wanted this book to be the trial that never happened. I was surprised at how few people wanted to talk about this. How few people were very happy with the outcome that had been resolved by the attorney general of North Carolina who declared these boys innocent which is a very unusual legal term usually in a court of law, somebody is declared not guilty or guilty. The concept of innocence is foreign to the legal profession. I wanted to know what happened here. I was shocked at how difficult it was to get people to talk to me, including people at duke. When i spoke to Dick Brodhead
The duke lacrosse scandal and the power of the lead in the corruption of our great university. Why did you expand it beyond the scandal itself . Amazed at a was couple of things as i did my research into this. Number one, duke, an institution is not that much different than a wall street bank that i have written three other books about. It is a very secretive institution. They have their myths and ways of doing business. In theve a lot of power state of North Carolina and a nationally. They have a huge source of wealth in their endowment which is approaching 9 billion in the midst of a 3 billion endowment campaign. Certainly in the top 10. I think m. I. T. Has 10 billion. Harvard has 33 billion, 30 4 billion. They have an ambition to be in that wink. That is part of the story. Ambition. Kes the school is only 75 years old. 350 eurosat the school that harvard is. Part of the reason that duke has the new president is because he was the former dean of yale college and wellrespected educat
Publicity about this and received a tax bill from the irs which was written about in a detroit paper. If you do the arithmetic, you can get the idea he was taxed based on Something Like a 20 million payment and this has since been confirmed to me. And that was of course, that is 60 million. There was a settlement with coach pressler who was fired. The lacrosse coach. They had to resettle with him because he brought a libel suit against the university when they paid 20 million to each of the players. The rest of the players on the team, the nonindicted players also sued duke. It was resolved in february of last year. They got cash and settlements. One lawsuit still remains among three of the players. One including Ryan Mcfadden who wrote the horrible email that caused a huge controversy at the time. Between legal fees and settlement fees and pr spin and legal investigation, basically 100 million. Give us i know you do not want to quote specific words. Ryan mcfaddens email said what . He
And the nasdaq up by 28 points above fair value. Right now, well send it over to andrew with more on the chaos in canada. Thank you. There are questions this morning and concerns in canada after a gun man killed a soldier. And he walked into the halls of parliament and began shooting there. Its the Second Attack by a suspect with ties to radical islam this week. And comes after the Canadian Air Force joined the coalition carrying out air strikes against isis. Jay gray has more from ottawa. As the first shots rang out, just pow. Pow. And bystanders rushed to the side of a fallen soldier. But were unable to save nathan cerillo who had been standing by at canadas national war memorial. Theres no greater pain that go than z looking a loved one. To have it happen this morning is underlined by sad anger within my hearts. Next, the gunlman hijacked a car and drove to Canadas Parliament building, walked inside and opened fire in the central hall of honor. Three people were injured as lawmakers
Tonight there will be no curfew for the First Time Since last tuesday. Marylands governor says 3,000 National Guards troops could be moved out within a few days. At sunday services around the city today baltimore seemed a different place than it was one week ago. Mark albert is there. Reporter the prayer from the pews in baltimores sandtown this sunday was to overcome a week of sometimes violent protests in this neighborhood. For the First Time Since tuesday, the city will not be under a 10 p. M. Curfew. Baltimore mayor stephanie laulingsblake says my goal has always been to not have a curfew in place a single day longer than necessary. I believe we reached that point today. Parishioner ray kelly calls it progress. This seems like the start of a change that we have been fighting for for a lot of years in west baltimore. Reporter do you hope it lasts . I will make it last as long as i can. Im not going to let the momentum down. Reporter some National Guards troops were seen packing up a