Remember this? Wow. Just wow:
Charges against William Bryan Jennings, the Morgan Stanley (MS) U.S. bond-underwriting chief accused of stabbing a New York cab driver over a fare, will be dropped, according to Connecticut police.
“I’m aware that the charges are being dropped,” Detective Chester Perkowski of the Darien Police Department said today in an interview. He declined to comment further.
Jennings was accused of attacking the driver, Mohamed Ammar, on Dec. 22 with a 2 1/2-inch blade after a 40-mile (64 kilometer) ride from New York to the banker’s home in Darien. Ammar, a native of Egypt and a U.S. citizen, said Jennings told him, “I’m going to kill you. You should go back to your country,” according to a police report.
Jennings faced assault and hate-crime charges, each of which brings a maximum sentence of five years in prison. He was also charged with not paying the fare, a misdemeanor. He pleaded not guilty March 9.
Being old fashioned and remembering what my mother told me, since I have nothing nice to say about this, I will not comment on my feelings other than to say this brings to mind a recent joke: You know Monopoly is an old game since rich people can go to jail, and there is a luxury tax (I added: and a Community Chest)
He probably didn’t even have to pay the fare…
I am guessing this was solved by a big, deep pile of “free speech”.