Cornell Case Update: Jane Doe’s Sworn Statement, New Texts & What the Title IX Investigation Found

Jordan Berman (0:00)

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But what I love is that even though it's really, really comfortable, it doesn't make me feel like I'm overheating. Do you know what I mean? I have a couple of sets like that, ones that I love, but I can only wear them when it's cold out. Otherwise, I'll be sweating all day. The Cityscape set isn't that. It's something you can wear all the time. If you've never tried Cozy Earth before, now is the time. I promise you won't regret it. Head to cozyearth.com and treat yourself to your own Cityscape set. And this part matters. After you place your order, you'll see this quick survey asking how you heard about Cozy Earth. Please let them know you heard it here on UNBIASED Politics. That is how they know I sent you, so don't skip it. Welcome back to UNBIASED Politics. It is Saturday, October 17th, and we have a lot to catch up on with the Cornell situation, so we're doing a special episode today. I have been excluding these updates from the last two episodes just because all of this really needed its own episode. It would have taken up too much time in the more recent episodes, and we had, of course, other things to cover. So since we last spoke, we've gotten the six-page sworn statement that was sent to the DA, more text messages between Jane Doe and some of the accused, and the Title IX findings. Also, all FRAT events have now been canceled. Students pursuing criminal charges will now have access to independent New York State Police investigators. One of the accused is asking for a gag order. There are also other legal developments as well. So we're going to cover it all. This is how we're going to do it. We will spend the first 20 minutes or so covering the six page sworn statement, along with a brief analysis of why the DA chose not to pursue charges. Then we'll spend the next 20 minutes after that, covering the newly released text exchanges between Jane Doe and two of the accused men. We'll also include another brief analysis after that. And then we'll spend about 10 minutes covering the Title IX findings and we'll spend the last five minutes or so covering some of the other updates like the banning of the frat events, some legal updates, the no confidence meeting, stuff like that.

So with that, let's start with the sworn statement. And also, I guess I should mention, I know a lot of you are here for the updates obviously, but as we go through this sworn statement and the text messages, so really the first 40 minutes of this episode, it will be a lot of reading. I'm going to be reading Jane Doe's sworn statement. I'm going to be reading the text messages verbatim. So it's a lot of reading, just keep that in mind. Now specifically as it pertains to this six-page statement, this is the statement that Jane Doe signed off on after her two-day interview with investigators. This is the statement that was supposed to summarize the statements she made in that interview. And this is the statement that was sent to the DA when Cornell investigators asked the DA whether criminal charges were warranted and the DA ultimately said no.

Now, this goes without saying, but I'm not going to read all six pages in full. We would be here all day. I will, however, read you the relevant portions, which is actually most of the statement, if I'm being honest. If you do want to read all six pages in full, you can always find it in the sources section for this episode, which can be found on my website, unbiasednetwork.com, or you can always find the link in the show notes for today's episode. I will be filling in the names of the men where I know the names belong, just to make it easier to follow. Otherwise, I'll be saying the word redacted a million times, it'll be really hard to keep up. If I don't know for sure that a person's name belongs there, I will say redacted.