DUKE KID'S BONU$

[a kennedy]

April 19, 2007 -- Crime may not pay, but innocence has brought one of the falsely accused Duke lacrosse players a Wall Street windfall.

Exonerated team captain David Evans has been given a plum job as an analyst at New York financial giant Morgan Stanley, the company confirmed yesterday.

The firm would not say what the salary would be, but the Wall Street Journal reported it will be "well into the six-figure range" as they called the job "one of the most prestigious on Wall Street."

"He will begin in the summer analyst program," company spokesman Mark Lake told The Post.

The high-powered hiring comes after Evans, 24, lost out on a job offer from JPMorgan Chase when he was accused last year of raping a stripper at a lacrosse team party. Last week, he and teammates Reade Seligmann of New Jersey and Collin Finnerty of Long Island were cleared.

The loss of the job was a bitter blow to Evans.

"This woman has destroyed everything I worked for in my life," Evans told CBS's "60 Minutes." "She's put it on hold."

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04192007/news/regionalnews/duke_kids_bonu_regionalnews_todd_venezia.htm

[saltpoint]

1. I imagine that Duke grads are often hired at high levels of various companies.

I think it would surprise me if they weren't.

I don't usually root for their ball teams in the NCAA tournament, but the high academic standing at Duke seems well-deserved.

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. But where do they go to get their reputations back...

:eyes:

[AlCzervik]

3. i went to a state school and there were students that also landed big jobs.

shit even i got recruited right after graduation.

[ecstatic]

4. Yep. They all will fare way better than most "falsely" accused/acquitted persons

They will all be well taken care of by the good old boys network.

[Kagemusha]

7. Why is falsely in quotation marks with your post?

I'm wondering.

[a kennedy]

8. I don't know why Kagemusha, I just posted the article as it was

written.

[ecstatic]

11. Because the accuser is mentally ill, so we might never know the truth

behind what really happened that night.

[pampango]

13. You are right. Even though the state Attorney General declared

them innocent, not just not guilty or not prosecutable, there will be suspicion following them forever. Only the guys and the woman (to the extent that she can distinguish reality) will ever "know" what happened that night. It is a little scary that any of us could be accused of some terrible crime by a mentally ill person and have that accusation follow us forever, even though there was absolutely no evidence that we had done what we were accused of.

[MadBadger]

5. Good for him.

[vote5polend]

6. anybody not surprised by this?

im sure lots of wall street neocon corps and think tanks will line up to take these boys in while they get the publicity.

1. Be born White
2. Be Born Rich
3. Get falsely accused
4. ????
5. Profit!

amirite?

[WorseBeforeBetter]

10. Those "boys" were going to be taken care of...

regardless of the false accusations. A degree from Duke has a way of doing that...

[mainegreen]

9. Innocence brought a windfall?? Are you suggesting innocence is a bad thing?

He had a similar job lined up before, so it sounds like at least one of these kids is luckily back on track. Good for him.

[mzteris]

12. I still wouldn't let my daughter go out with him. n/t

[Lex]

14. w00t. Plenty of money for strippers and beer!

Good for him.