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Message: [QUOTE="moqui, post: 97456, member: 214"] orangeion, looks like I owe you an apology. your info was indeed solid. I might end up owing Davis and Lang an apology, too. Well, not them personally since they are likely unaware of me or of my opinions about them, but an apology to the universe for so forcefully declaiming them. I am definitely on my heels . . . I had staked my certainty in this case on the fact of the BSK report. A colleague of mine has worked with BSK in the past, and assured me that they were the absolute best at what they do, that a four month investigation by them would have been thorough, and if SU had done nothing after receiving that report then there was probably nothing to worry about. You raised doubts about that, but I remained skeptical. As I wrote above, I was wrong to doubt you. That being said, I am still unclear what is going on here. Davis still feels like a troubled person and likely a grifter of some sort to me - his surreptitious taping, the rumored affair with Laurie Fine, not releasing the tape, etc - this is definitely odd behavior. The tape itself is problematic - is it real, or has it been manipulated, as Laurie Fine claimed? In any case, it is not dispositive - he tries very hard to get Mrs. Fine to come right out and say things, but she always comes up just short. Whether he was actually abused or not, Davis has definitely tried to leverage this situation for something other than simple justice and a concern for the truth. The third accuser is more troublesome. He definitely has a motive to lie - to distract from his own legal troubles and perhaps try to earn a deal that favors himself. Plus, his own father calls him a liar. But, it is a lot more difficult for me to dismiss this all now, especially given that the BSK report that I was leaning on may actually have been a slapped together piece of worthlessness. All of the sudden, regardless of how this turns out legally, I now believe that this may be JB's final season. What a ty way to go. [/QUOTE]

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