Cornell 7: Frat Brothers Accused of Campus Gang Rape & Sending "Free Pussy" Snapchat

I can't think of many reasons that a person, a pedestrian, can be standing there and get hit by a car and somehow that person, the pedestrian, ends up at fault. There's not really many scenarios in which I would immediately accept that conclusion without asking a ton of follow-up questions. I mean, you really have to be kind of shit out of luck. You have to be in some sort of luck recession. April 30th of this year, 2026. There is a college kid standing in a parking lot. He's got his little backpack on, and he's filming with his phone, so he's got his phone out, he's got his backpack, and he appears to be standing in front of a black Cadillac. That's just parked in a parking spot. And the student just very quickly says, "Am I allowed to stand here?" He's got his phone up, and we get the answer to his question sooner rather than later. I don't know if he's allowed to stand there, but maybe he shouldn't be standing there. Because the black Cadillac decides, "I'm just going to hit the kid." The car backs into the student, it's a little more like a bunk, like a very hard bunk. I mean, the car does not perform a speed test trying to go zero to 60. It's not, the car just kind of anti-climatically bumps into the student behind it, continues reversing out of the parking spot. The student doesn't lose balance, he doesn't fall over, he doesn't get dragged, but it's not like a super soft tap, either. It just kind of walks backwards as the car is reversing back into him before the car puts itself into drive and starts moving forward to get out of the parking spot. But as the car is moving forward, you can hear from the side of the car, someone else is screaming now, "Ah, you just ran over my fucking foot, oh my god!" And that individual, whose foot was potentially ran over by this car, is banned from campus for the entire year. This is a student who got his foot allegedly run over and can no longer come back to campus. Wait, there's a lot of people? Yeah, there's multiple students. One gets bumped, one allegedly gets his foot run over, there's different people, and the entire parking lot fiasco is analyzed and discussed on many major news platforms. Because this isn't just any parking lot and a bunch of college students being irresponsible with vehicles, this is the parking lot at a very prestigious Ivy League institution Cornell University. And after a week-long investigation, it was decided that the students outside the car were the ones to blame. They were the ones at fault for getting bumped, bumped, forgetting their foot run over. I mean, it kind of sounds bizarre because like, sure, you probably shouldn't be standing in front of a car that's trying to get out of the parking lot. But also, that person driving the car should probably just call the campus police, try to do something so that they don't actually start moving the vehicle when there's people standing in the way. So there's a bunch of students blocking the car. Is that what it is? Yes. Okay, so prevented from leaving. Yes, but it's not super aggressive either. It's kind of like a mixture of preventing it from leaving and kind of loitering. Right. And then the car is just, it's just slowly backing up. Yeah. Okay. But there's got to be a better way to get out of the parking spot, right? But the reason that this makes the news is because, well, like I said, it's Cornell University and it's such a strange, bizarre incident with a strange conclusion. But also, the person driving the vehicle is the president of Cornell, who just backed up into a student and potentially ran over another student's foot. And a week later, after an investigation, it is decided that it was all the students fought. They were the ones responsible for this event to give some context right before this whole parking lot fiasco. Cornell's president, Michael Kotlikov, had just introduced two Cornell students, the Israel-Palestinian debate series, which this comes after a series of protests broke out on campus, demanding justice for Palestine and some pretty big scandals of Ivy League schools punishing protesters, suspending them, rescinding student visas. It was a fucking mess. So, I guess this was Cornell's response to their other shit responses. Well, now we're going to have a debate series. Now, nevertheless, as the president introduces the debate series, he's now leaving the atrium and a handful of students, they start questioning Michael Kotlikov in the hallway and they end up following him to the parking lot to his car. Now, from the footage that I saw that's been released, it doesn't look like the students are jumping up on his car. It doesn't look like they're banging on his windows. They're just kind of filming and loitering and preventing him from leaving. They're asking him follow-up questions. He gets in the driver's side. And it's very clear there's one student standing behind his car so that he can't back out of the parking spot. And it honestly, I mean, it's not that intense, all things considered. It's not like the students created some sort of scary human chain where they're just like threatening bodily harm. And you're also talking about an Israel-Palestinian debate series after Cornell students felt like they've been brutally punished for peacefully protesting. There's going to be a lot of emotions involved. And from the footage I saw, it doesn't seem that volatile. But he still backs up into them and apparently runs over a foot. The whole situation gets so big that the president of Cornell has to release a public statement where he says, "These individuals are known to Cornell for their past conduct, including a long history of ongoing verbal and online abuse towards numerous members of Cornell's administration and staff, as well as disruptive protests resulting in the case of two individual bands from the campus." He says that he was accosted in the hallway, that they continued to follow him to his car, surrounded him, banged on the windows, blocked the car, and they were shouting. He says, "I waited until I saw space behind my car and then using my car's rear pedestrian alert, an automatic braking system was able to slowly maneuver my car from the parking space and exit the parking lot." What? Yeah, his statement is kind of crazy. He also says, "The behavior I experienced last night is not protest. It is harassment and intimidation, with the direct motive of silencing speech. It is no place in an academic community, no place in a democracy and can have no place at Cornell." The student who had his foot allegedly run over, he did end up getting his degree the month after the incident, so he was a senior, and he graduated. However, right after graduation, he was banned from going on campus for an entire year because of this incident. So, his foot allegedly gets run over by Cornell's president, and the notice of the ban reads, "While in the day hall parking lot, you restricted a motor vehicle's ability to maneuver while it was in motion, as the reverse lights of the vehicle were illuminated, your intentional act created a hazardous condition." Which all of this seems so overkill. Why didn't Cornell's president just call campus police to come help him so that he could safely reverse his car out of there and go home? I mean, what compelled him to reverse his car when he knew that there were pedestrians, Cornell students standing around his car, and now the campus police, CUPD Cornell University Police Department, who work for Cornell, and by default, Michael Kotlikov, the president, has now deemed that it's the students fault, and he can't come back to campus for a full year. And this was a huge scandal for Cornell earlier this year, but that will not, not even in the slightest, be the worst investigation and scandal that Cornell University will be caught up in in this year. Because a few months later, Jane Doe will file a civil lawsuit against Cornell University, and seven fraternity brothers from Cornell, now dubbed the Cornell 7. Jane Doe alleges that as a student at Cornell, she went to a fraternity party where she was gang assayed for seven hours, traumatized to the point of dropping out of her dream university and her entire life has been ripped apart, while some of the accused, according to her lawsuit, are still going to school. They're on their way to graduating, and some of the accused, their punishment for the events of that night, was to attend a workshop and write essays, reflection essays, reflection papers. These are the allegations against the Cornell 7 from the Jane Doe lawsuit, and why it seems like everybody is divided. There are people in mainstream media who are going on talk shows like the view, going against Jane Doe. Trump, yeah, Trump, is weighing in, stating that the accused aren't going to get a fair shake if a certain prosecutor is investigating the case. There are a Snapchat messages that are being analyzed, new text messages seemingly released like every single day, recorded phone calls are slowly getting released, with at least one accused stating that maybe he was the one who is assayed by Jane Doe. Not the other way around. People are getting doxed, the US Marine Corps is having to step up to tell the internet, wait, you've got the wrong guy, like that's a guy from the Marines, he's a Marine. You guys think he's one of the Cornell 7 because he has the same name, but he's a Marine. And in like most cases, everyone's trying to pick a side, but like I said with most cases, it's just really not that simple. This is the case of the Cornell 7. We would like to thank today's sponsors who have made it possible for Rotten Mangle to support Rain, aka The Rafe Abuse and Incess National Network. Rain provides free confidential support services and information to survivors of sexual violence available 24/7 by phone, chat, or text. 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This case is currently ongoing. When we describe what happened that night, we're describing what is alleged in court filings reported by news outlets or found in public records up until the time of recording. Due to the current pending status, legally speaking, we are using very specific words to indicate that it has not been adjudicated. Nobody has been proven guilty in the court of law and everybody remains innocent until and unless they are proven guilty in court. And us having to state that is neither a judgment of the case nor is it a judgment of Jane Doe's credibility, nor is it a judgment of the accused credibility. Any comments, theories, speculations, opinions, claims, or even leaked information online, we found publicly available online, they do not reflect our beliefs. If there are any massive developments or changes, we will do our best to keep you guys updated. But with that being said, always do your own research. And I will say there is like a whole football team of lawyers involved, everybody's lawyer it up. At this point, lawyers are getting lawyers and that's obviously an exaggeration but it just feels like that. It just feels like new lawyers are spawning every week to do an interview with ABC News and these lawyers are very passionate and they're very full of, some of the lawyers are getting threatened. They say that they're getting death threats, they're getting threats to their family safety. It's become a very polarizing case but because there are so many lawyers involved, just something to keep in mind before we go and post some crazy TikToks, like don't say anything too crazy is all I'm saying. So with that being said, let's get started. Insurance companies, at least in my personal experience, they don't like to say no to coverage because that's saying no to money. So they'll say yes, we will accept you, we will cover you and then they will try their absolute best to not cover anything. But they'll typically take your money. They'll ship you one of those like plastic insurance cards in the mail that means absolutely nothing at this point. You might as well be paying with Barbie dollars at the doctor's office monopoly money because nothing ever gets covered. But there are some individuals and organizations that even insurance companies are like, we don't even want your money. You can take your money, we don't wanna cover you. We don't even wanna go through that. It's not even worth the risk. Ferturities are one of them. There is a common statistic that cited out there that fraternities are the sixth worst insurance risk in the country behind hazardous waste disposal companies and a best dose contractors. That was stated in Time magazine, but there's no official list. - Best dose contracts. - It's like mold. - Uh-oh, I see. - Yeah, I mean, there's no official list. So it's very hard to say if they're the sixth worst, I couldn't find the exact source of this thing that people keep repeating. Some people say it's the seventh worst or some people say it's fraternities and sororities. It's all Greek life. Some people say it's just fraternities. It does appear though. The truth is that many insurance companies don't wanna cover fraternities. I don't know if it's the sixth worst, but they just don't like them. - I didn't know they need a umbrella coverage. - Yeah, they need umbrella coverage. - Are they like a company? They run it, probably like an organization, right? - So they need umbrella coverage usually for the national organization. And then I think for the chapter houses filled with a bunch of 18 year olds that are getting drunk is usually an insurance nightmare. - I mean, that makes sense. - Yeah. - Makes sense. Imagine the amount of lawsuits liability. - Yeah, just incidents that they need to cover on a weekly basis. - It's to the point where a lot of the fraternities have resulted in self-insuring. They have set up their own insurance companies. Some big fraternities even came together to create their own insurance company. There's one really big one called FRMT, fraternity risk management trust. A board member states that they write liability coverage for roughly half of all the national fraternities, but they typically don't cover the things that fraternities usually get sued for, such as hazing, alcohol violations, or essay. And there's fine prints. So basically, if you're a member of a fraternity, you're 18, you went to college, you just joined a fraternity, you just pledged. You got haste, and obviously this is vague and not directed towards one organization, but a general overview that shouldn't be taken as representative of any specific or all organizations. But if you're a member of a fraternity and you're drunk, you do something really bad. You end up getting sued, okay? You pay the fraternity like $50 a year. Some people say it's $100 a year, a couple of $100 a year for insurance. Well, the fine print says, the minute you start drinking under certain circumstances, you are no longer a member. Your membership is rescinded, which means the minute that that happens, you are no longer a fraternity member, which means you are no longer covered under the fraternity insurance policy. You're just not a member anymore now. Yes, you got spanked. You got hazed in ways that probably have a lot more in common with organized, fat life meetups, blindfolds. You're eating an entire raw onion while being spanked then forced to plank while professing your undying love to the brothers and your big, which is the guy standing over you, watching with like a weird power trip. And that obviously can only mean that this is like the pinnacle of interpersonal relationships and friendship. All of that, the second that there's a court filing, that member is likely dropped. It's almost poetic, actually. (gentle music) There are two odd workarounds for this alcohol thing, two usually approved ways of drinking at fraternity houses that have your chance of most likely staying insured by the fraternity insurance is one, the fraternity brings in a third party vendor to check IDs and they assume the liability. So it's like your hosting an event and now they're gonna check the ID, make sure everyone's 21 and they're gonna stop giving you drinks when you seem too inebriated, they're now liable. Or two, this is crazy, but there's a whole list of BYOB. So it's bring your own beer and they have a whole checklist that they're supposed to do. So they assign someone at the door and it's like a guest list, everybody has to be 21. It has to be marked. You can only bring like six beverages, like six beers and under or like one bottle of wine. There's some sort of limitation there and then you get a band that you can't take off and you can only drink your own beer. Or you can only drink like the amount of alcohol that you brought. - You're saying that's the only time they will insure. - Yes. - These type of incidents? - Yes, but like the people that are checking all these things are your fellow fraternity brothers that are also 18, 19, probably maybe 21. It's just, it's not like a foolproof way, which is why there's a lot of bad things that happen at fraternity houses. But if all else fails, when members are not insured, fraternity brothers, and this is so strange, I was thinking okay, like where do they, who pays them out then? If you sue a fraternity member and their fraternity drops them from their insurance, what happens then? Apparently a large number of payouts are made by that individual's parents, homeowners insurance policy. So it's just like the strangest, it's like a whole ecosphere of lawyers who only take on fraternity cases. There's some really big ones, like big names in the industry that all of the chapter heads, the national heads of these organizations fucking hate these lawyers. They're just, it's like one big, everybody knows everybody, type of thing. One Redditor writes that when he was in a fraternity, quote, "50 dollars per brother per year went to insurance which are national, the national office required." The thing is, if you read the insurance policy, anything that could result in a chapter or national organization being sued was either a violation of fraternity bylaws or the insurance policy itself, in which case no coverage is offered. We technically could not throw a football around in the front yard with non-brothers that were there because according to the policy, anything athletic was too much of a liability for the insurance company. But also, if you're with a bunch of fraternity brothers throwing a football around and then you get rammed in the head with a football in the front yard as a full pledged brother, well, according to the Redditor, quote, "Inference does not cover brothers who sue the chapter or national organization for any reason as they are considered the same party on the same plan." So you can't sue them either. According to one insurance company who does ensure fraternities, they took a sample of liability claims and they analyzed what kind of claims they were. They're just categorizing them. And a lot of people assumed right off the bat that hazing injuries and deaths would be, maybe number one, maybe number two, or alcohol-related deaths, right? Considering there's just a lot of bizarre and terrifying news all the time about the newest ways of fraternities are terrorizing and hazing new pledges, like there was this guy that was rushed to the hospital, doctors initially thought that he was randomized, that he was essayed. But in a very, like rather uncomfortable turn of events, I guess you could say, they discovered that the fraternity was actually having, well, allegedly, having their new pledges stick plastic hoses [BLANK_AUDIO] buts to give themselves enomas with alcohol. The patient in question denies that this ever happened. However, police found circumstantial evidence in the fraternity house, including evidence that the patient may have lost control of his bowels in the process and defecated on himself, which he also has no recollection of. And alcohol enomas are super dangerous. You absorb the alcohol much quicker because you're bypassing your stomach. And it's hard to gauge how much is going up the butt to put it simply. Also, you could tear your rectum and sustain injuries. Like this very bright-minded pledge did, you know, future of our nation. They say, bright-eyed college student ends up in the ER, wine enema, allegedly. So everyone thought, OK, well, Hazing is going to be the biggest type of lawsuit. But it's actually not. The first one from this sample is assault in battery. Then you have essay. Then slip and fall. The fourth is fall from heights. And the fifth is auto accidents. And tied with fifth is at just 7% Hazing incidents. Interesting. And that's not saying that there aren't a lot of hazing lawsuits. I mean, there are a lot of branding gone wrong where plaintiffs need skin grafts in extreme cases because they were branded by some sort of hot iron tool. And now they need new skin. Or paddling gone wrong, causing permanent aesthetic and emotional damage to one's bottom. And that's usually like the light side of Hazing. There is-- They have these paddles in the fraternity houses that usually have like their fraternity names on there, and then they hit you with it. Oh. I mean, it's not-- I don't know if it's standard for a lot of fraternities, but it seems to be a thing. Like spanking? Yeah. Yeah. And that is usually considered the light side of Hazing. There is the full-on sexual assault side of Hazing as well. There's a lot of hazing lawsuits, but it's crazy that it's still a small percentage of all the different types of lawsuits fraternities face. And the fourth one, a lot of students also fall from fraternity houses. Like when I was looking into this, I was very confused. They fall off a roof while intoxicated. They fall out of open windows while trying to urinate out the window when they're intoxicated. Sometimes there will be a bunk bed next to an open window. And they'll be intoxicated, roll out of the bed, and then roll out the window, fall from fire escapes, fall from balconies. It happens way more often than I ever imagined. Just a lot of high falls. One would think, if insurance companies don't even want fraternities, why do colleges and universities want the one campus? It doesn't even make any sense. Even Cornell University, a lot of students, are trying to ban Greek life. They're protesting against Greek life, and Cornell still keeps Greek life. Why? Colleges and universities, they benefit a lot from fraternities. Donations, or-- Yes, a lot of donations. And most of them are not disclosed. But there is also-- some people say it could be the marketing aspect, the promise of being able to defy gravity and do a keg stand on a random Thursday night. That is more enticing to someone than getting student loans for whatever degree that they want. It's kind of like built in marketing. So this is the fun college life we're going to get, I see. And also, on top of that, there is a bottom line incentive. It's deeply financially beneficial for a lot of these institutions. One random one that I hadn't even thought of was a lot of these universities, they don't have to build and maintain more buildings for student housing. Because when you have all these sororities and fraternities, like some colleges, one in every eight students lives in a Greek life house. So that means less buildings, less insurance, the school has to pay for those student dorms. Because it's like by bed and by student, there's a lot of different umbrella coverages. I mean, one school is paying millions of dollars just on insurance for their dorms. Because yeah, you want to make sure that everything is covered if there's a fire and the building is insured if it burns down. But also if someone walks into the building and they slip on a puddle of water, they might sue the school. So you have to be insured for that as well. So these institutions are now saving money since Greek life and the chapter houses typically reduce the number of students that need campus housing. It also allows institutions to expand the number of students they can admit, which means more tuition. But also alumni who are part of Greek life seem to, at least according to one research done, seem more financially generous to their alma mater's later in life if they were part of Greek life. But I guess the question that's been coming up more recently is is it really fucking worth it? Is it worth it to keep fraternities on campus when they appear to be quite dangerous? Kai Phi is one of the oldest, if not the oldest American fraternity. Apparently it was three separate organizations that merged into one. And the oldest of the three that merged was an organization from Princeton that started in 1824. So it's like 202 years old. America just turned 250. The entire fraternity has about 48 active chapters across the United States. It said that they have close to 50,000 living members. And a chapter has been at Cornell. The Zai chapter has been there since 1891. Yeah, so it's been around. 50,000 members at one time? No, they're all living members. So they're not all students, yeah. Now Jared Hoffman was a Kai Phi pledge at the Cornell chapter years ago. So this is not even happening during this gender case, but this is highly relevant. And he recounts his hazing experience. So he's like, I was a pledge. I was a member of Kai Phi at Cornell where all of this is happening, okay? And he says that when he was a freshman, he had endured months of physical, emotional, and psychological damage. And I guess they're all like on the, this is the night of the initiation. They're all on the precipice of becoming a fully-fledged, fully-pledged Kai Phi member if they can just endure the next few hours. He alleges that he's sleep deprived, physically exhausted, and quote, I was blindfolded and tossed onto a sheet, flinging me up and down. Like they were just like tossing him up like this. And there, for the first time in my life, I was essayed. It happened quickly. Hands reached under the waistband on my basketball shorts and slathered fistfuls of spicy mung all over my genitals. I felt shock and pain. What is mung, you ask? He says mung consisted of cold oatmeal, vinegar, hot sauce, and cayenne pepper smeared all over his genitals. But he did not consent to anyone touching him or inflicting this amount of pain. He says, I screamed bloody murder. A few minutes later, I was given a half gallon milk to wash off my spicy junk. Then I was blindfolded again, made to crawl on my elbows and knees on hard wooden floors and pressured to solve a riddle that, as it turned out, had no actual answer. Finally, I collapsed. I was set in a coffin and lowered through a trap door into a secret chapter room where I was officially inducted into the fraternity. He says he was initiated and he starts living at the now infamous Kai Phi house at Cornell. He says, I made posters for parties like the houses. We had a great Fratsby party. It's a great Gatsby Frats. Yeah. But inside, I was ashamed of my vulnerability and unable to articulate or process the pain I was in. I accepted the fraternity's offerings of access to drugs, alcohol, and girls, along with the social license to frame addiction as valor and sexual conquest as glory. There's a whole piece on this that Jared shares in the Cornell Sun, which was published recently. It's worth reading, but it's interesting to know that the house that Jared helped plan this great Fratsby party, the Kai Phi house, is now vacant. So this house that everybody's talking about now with the Jane Doe case has been shut down since 2024. The Zai chapter, actually of Kai Phi at Cornell, has been barred from campus after Jane Doe's incident. Oh, off from this. Yes, from 2024. And now in one of the now vacant rooms, a very important room for this case. One video shows someone walking through this empty room and there's garbage leftover food everywhere discarded furniture. There's this weird poster of a sorority. So it's a bunch of girls and all of their, it's like a class sorority photo. There's a fentanyl test. What do you need a fentanyl test? There's beer cans, liquor bottles. It's now empty, but this house was not empty. October of 2024, when this case allegedly occurs. October 19th. October 19th, 2024 at Cornell was kind of a busy day. There is an arrest made for ketamine at a fraternity at Kai Phi to be exact. A drug related arrest at the same exact house. Now, the university does not place the fraternity on some sort of like interim suspension because they're gonna host another party that day. So Kai Phi at the house. Someone is arrested for ketamine related offense. Okay. - We don't know what it is. - Yeah, when you go through like little snippets of the Title IX investigation, which is the Jane Doe investigation that we're gonna kind of get into in a second, there are allegations that someone overdosed. And we do know that there was an arrest made because that was logged in the Cornell. There's like a crime log that they have, like a daily crime log. - They arrested someone. [BLANK_AUDIO] - Yes. - Like, supplying or-- - So we don't know if it was the same individual, if it was two different individuals, if someone is supplying and then someone overdosed or if someone overdosed and that's how they found out that they were in possession of ketamine, but there was some sort of ketamine related activity that was discovered October 19th at Chi-Fi fraternity house. Now, this Chi-Fi fraternity house is on Cornell campus, so it's not off campus housing, which means it's technically under the jurisdiction of Cornell, right? Now, they do nothing to give any sort of temporary suspension to the fraternity house, which is what a lot of people expect it, because it's like, hey, you're not supposed to have drugs on campus, we made an arrest at your house, we're gonna shut this house down, we're not kicking people out, but we're just gonna investigate and you guys lose your privileges of throwing fucking radars and doing keg stands, because that's what happens, right? But they don't do that. Instead, 22 hours later, a sophomore, 20-year-old Jane Doe alleges that she went to Chi-Fi for a party and was gang raped at the fraternity house for seven hours. The same Chi-Fi, the fraternity that touts itself, their whole mission, their motto, is building better men. Their founding principles, they state our truth, honor, and personal integrity. They have a creed of Chi-Fi and it reads in short, I believe in the friendship of Chi-Fi, whether on the road or in the chapter house, the hand of brotherhood is always extended. I believe in the Chi-Fi fraternity. Truth, honor, and personal integrity are the foundations upon which Chi-Fi is built. A man's word is his bond. Shivalrous behavior crosses the ages to touch the heart of Chi-Fi. 20-year-old Jane Doe, this is obviously a pseudonym, but Jane Doe shares the relevant details of her starting at Cornell in her civil lawsuit. So this civil lawsuit dropped September of 2026. The incident is from 2024. And it seems like there was a big conversation at Cornell with people who knew fraternity members, with people who knew Jane Doe. There was an entire Title IX investigation at Cornell, but it never made national news. There were some official statements that Cornell released, but unless you were a student there, unless you knew what was going on, I mean, nobody was really talking about it. But in September of 2026, Jane Doe decides that she's going to sue not just Cornell, but her sorority, the Chi-Fi fraternity, as well as seven members of Chi-Fi, as well as another bar, we're gonna get into all of it. But this is when the entire case breaks open, and she starts sharing the relevant details of her starting at Cornell. She joins Cornell, joins a sorority, and all of this falls apart her sophomore year. So she's already been there for about two years. And she says that the only reason that she even joined this sorority, she joined Try Delta, which is Delta Delta Delta, Try Delta. Okay, so she joins the sorority because she felt like when she got to Cornell, they kept promoting Greek life as like a very vital part of the campus community. They were just, they made it seem like, "Oh, this is where you network, "and you make so many friends, "and it seems like a safe environment." So she joins Try Delta. October 19th of 2024. She's at the Try Delta sorority house with her sorority sisters, and they're just doing shots of vodka. Jane Doe is 20. She's not of legal drinking age, but she's completely intoxicated as per her lawsuit. She alleges, then at 8.30 pm, she states in her lawsuit that she gets into an uber with her house mom Jade. Now, house moms of sororities are not like your big sisters, which is like you have a big and you have a little, and this is another, you know, undergraduate student, who's also just trying to figure out college. No, a house mom is kind of like a house director for a sorority. They're not college students. This is somebody who is salaried, who lives inside the house, who is like the operational manager. This is a hired professional. They oversee the building upkeep. They act as the on-site manager. They are caretakers. They order food for the sorority sisters or whoever lives in the house. They help operate the sorority house, plan the parties, facilitate higher vendors. This is a professional, this is an adult, this is someone who is, you know, not a college kid. Are they school employees? No, they're employed by the national organization of each sorority and fraternity. Okay, so they're not associated with the school? Yes, they're not. Yes, and they're also not like the president of the sorority chapter because that would be a student. So they're not associated with the school. Sometimes they're not even former members of the sorority or fraternity. They just get hired. It's like, you know, hiring a professional position. Yeah, the lawsuit alleges that she gets into an uber with the house mom. So she's already like taking shots of vodka at the sorority house, getting into an uber with her house mom. So this is not like another 20 year old college kid. This is someone who is of legal, legal drinking age who is supposed to kind of be a caretaker. Yeah. She gets in the super and they go off campus to a bar called Moonies. Now Moonies is also a defendant in the civil lawsuit where the bouncer and I'm assuming they ask for her ID, they stamp these giant X's on both of Jane's hands, which I mean, the lawsuit confirms the X's on her hands or to indicate to bartenders that Jane Doe is not a drinking age. She's 20. However, the lawsuit alleges that Moonies is serving her drinks, alcoholic beverages. And there's like a whole, there's a bunch of sorority sisters at this event at Moonies and they're all drinking, despite the fact that she's underage at the establishment. Then around 10 p.m., Jane Doe and a few of her sorority sisters, they walk over to a separate bar called Lot 10. Lot 10 is not listed as a defendant. She's given another under 21 wristband and it would appear at least from the filing that they do not serve her any alcoholic beverages here. She's here for about an hour before she heads out and starts walking back to campus to meet up with a friend. This friend is Matthew Ingalls. He's a fraternity brother at Chi Phi and they have this huge big fraternity house on campus at Cornell, the Chi Phi House. And she starts walking to the house. By this point, Jane thinks that she's probably had like 10 drinks in the past three hours. Yeah, and 10 drinks. I mean, because her lawsuit specified that at the sorority house, it was vodka. So I'm assuming it's not like, oh, I had 10 beers, which was also crazy. Yeah, she states that she is visibly intoxicated when she gets to the Chi Phi fraternity house. (gentle music) It's clearly a very busy night for the college students. The Chi Phi fraternity house is hosting a Hawaii-themed party which is an interesting choice for October 19th, but it's Hawaii-themed. And there's about three to four fraternity brothers standing outside by the front door. They let Jane in and she spots her friend Matthew, right? This is the friend that she came for. He hands her beer and there's some sort of like dancing going on, everybody's having a good time. And Jane and Matthew, they start dancing on the main room together. But after dancing for what has been described by Matthew as three to five minutes, it's unclear like how long it really was, Matthew pulls Jane off to the side. And she says, according to the lawsuit, he propositions her, asks her if she wants to have a threesome with another one of his fraternity brothers. Now, according to the lawsuit, Jane at this point is so drunk, she's not even capable of consenting to any of this. But Matthew just leads her upstairs, leads her alone with one of the fraternity brothers. So he's not a defendant in the lawsuit. So he just kind of leads her with this random fraternity brother and I guess they're just like awkwardly sitting on the couch and it appears that Matthew eventually comes back. And as alleged in the lawsuit, he gets Jane and leads her to a separate room down the hall where there's a separate fraternity brother sitting on a couch, Jonathan Newell. He is another defendant in this lawsuit. They're in what's called by the fraternity, the alumni room. The alumni room is a weird room. There's apparently three beds, a couch and at least one chair. The fraternity apparently considers it a social room, but it's also like a bedroom for members. So there are people that's their room, but it's kind of a social room in the sense that nobody locks it. It's an unlocked space where people congregate. According to the lawsuit, it seems Matthew is plopped up on the couch with Jonathan and they start passing around this plastic bag containing a white powdery substance, which Jane says they said was ketamine. They start pressuring Jane into snorting ketamine with them. Jane has never done ketamine before. The lawsuit says during this time, defendant Matthew and Jonathan also plied plaintiff with marijuana and quote, Jamaican liquor believed to be some high proof rum. Soon after, defendant Matthew and Jonathan began engaging in sexual acts with plaintiff all without her consent. The lawsuit alleges that during the assault, Matthew, her so-called friend that she came for, forces oral, and Jonathan is behind her, forcing intercourse from behind. The filing states that throughout the entire assault, defendant Jonathan kept slapping Jane Doe on the buttocks multiple times that resulted in bruising. But at some point, the lawsuit states that Matthew could no longer maintain an erection. So he tells Jane Doe that he's gonna take a nap. So he just leaves this and hops onto a bed. So he doesn't leave the room. He just hops onto one of the three beds and he falls asleep. Meanwhile, Jonathan keeps, according to the lawsuit, keeps trying to reach for her private parts down there and she's swatting and like pushing his hand away, but he keeps trying. Soon after, it's alleged that another fraternity other walks in, Jillio Lopes. Jane alleges that Jillio just grabs Jane from Jonathan. Okay, perhaps this is like the first decent individual that's going to be uncovered according to the sequence of events in this lawsuit, right? But no, he's not. It states that he grabs Jane so that he can just start kissing her. And then Jonathan gets up and comes up behind her and starts groping her from behind, again, specifically reaching for her private parts. And the lawsuit continues to state, defending Jillio and Jonathan, then placed Jane on a bed, and the two men begin having sex with Jane, initiating another assault all without Jane's consent. At 1.42 a.m., Jonathan. So this is not her friend. So Matthew, her friend is asleep. The one that invited her is now asleep on a bed. And Jonathan, the one that Matthew wanted to have a threesome with allegedly, right, sends a group message to the Zai chapter Snapchat. So this is the Chi-Fi fraternity. The Zai chapter is Cornell's chapter. So it's called like a Zai Actives, which means all of the active fraternity members at Chi-Fi at Cornell are in this group chat. And it's a 57 member Snapchat group. He sends a message where he claims there is, quote, free pussy. Is that the only thing like just free pussy that he says free pussy alum PU. So free pussy alum because I think it means they're in the alumni room, okay? And then PU typically stands for pull up. Maybe it means something else. Maybe I'm dense, but like I'm pretty sure it means pull up. Now this is where people say this is not the Cornell 7 case. This is the Cornell 57 case because there are 57 fraternity brothers in that Snapchat group. And surely one of them must ask clarifying questions. Surely one of them must go check up on the individual to see if they're okay because this is not a normal message that can go out. If I got this message from someone that I am even remotely close to, even a stranger, I would be so confused. Maybe if you engaged in some sexual activity that was consensual and you texted some like, oh, I did some crazy stuff and set a derogatory name. Would that be expected? Maybe would that be morally reprehensible? Yes. But like, this just doesn't make any sense. This is not even something that happens in fraternity group chats that I can even wrap my mind around. I'm so confused. The responses that we can see as detailed in Jane Doe's lawsuit, Scott Norris. Another member is a defendant in the lawsuit. He says free dot dot dot. So I don't know what that means. I don't know if he's restating it, asking a question, or if he's shocked by it, or if he's clarifying. Maybe he's like, what do you mean free? A guy named Ryan says, this is crazy work. He's not a defendant. Scott K, who is a defendant, says Diego went seven minutes ago and is not AFK. So AFK means active or available. So Scott K, there's like a whole thing. We're going to get into Scott K later, but he later tells this school that he was in a separate room with a bunch of his friends and his friend Diego, all of a sudden, just like, abruptly gets up out of the room and leaves, which is kind of weird. Is that after the text? Oh, a snapchat? After the free pussy snapchat. Yes. So Diego left, but he hasn't seen it yet, so he claims. So Scott is like, I haven't seen this snapchat yet. He just like Diego just like up and left, right? And then 10 minutes go by him and his other friend, his buddy, the other Scott, they pull up their phones and they're like, oh my god, this snapchat. Like, what's going on? And like, Diego, maybe that's where Diego went, because Diego left out of nowhere and he wasn't like, hey, guys, I'm going to go get a drink. Like, he just left. So then this text now says, Diego went seven minutes ago and is not active available. So saying like almost like Diego is there. Yeah. Like, ooh, like something must be happening. It's like, okay, if I read it, this is my opinion because I don't know what's going on in Scott K's mind or what Scott K did or didn't do. However, when I'm reading this, I'm reading this as like, no, this must be legit because my buddy just went in there and he, I haven't seen him since. Got it. So like, that's the tone that I picked up. I could be picking up the wrong things. Now, Matthew, the so-called friend of Jane Doe, the one that invited Jane Doe, I guess he wakes up and he starts responding into this snapchat group. I fucking love Kaifi. This is he invited Jane Doe. Then Winston responds, Kaifi, like all caps. Winston Lee is also a defendant. Scott K back to Scott K. The names don't really matter. It's just more so the messages. The names will matter more later when I go through what each person indicated that they state happened that night. So Scott K says the alumni shit is not a bit first person POV not a bit. Okay. Now he has like a whole explanation for this message later. He's saying like, I saw it with my own eyes. This is not like, this is like, no cap. Like, that's basically what he's saying. Like, not a bit, right? First person POV, Matthew, the so-called friend of Jane Doe, again responds, like, you can walk in and whip it out. Which this part is not detailed in Jane Doe's lawsuit, but a different one, more on that later, but apparently a picture of Jane Doe is shared into the Snapchat. It's kind of vague of whether she's clothed or appears close. It's not like an illegal picture in the sense that she was unclothed or engaged in activity that what she did not consent to being filmed, but it is a picture of her that she had no clue was taken. She had no clue was sent into this Snapchat. She has no clue any of these snapshots are being sent at the time that it's happening. And then someone responds, shop still open question mark. Another fraternity brother responds, yeah, devil face emoji. Another response, redacted, laying right now. Loki, he's cucking all of us. Like, what do you think that means? I mean, that means it seems like someone is watching some sort of sexual interaction because laying, like, I think that's supposed to indicate like laying dick right now, redacted, laying right now. I don't know. That's just my interpretation. Okay. And then the next line is Loki, he's cucking all of us. That makes it sound like there's all of us. A lot of guys in the room who are watching an interaction happen because usually that is the term cucking. Then another message which appears to be from the friend Matthew, the so-called friend, boys come whip it out. Jane Doe was shown this picture of her that was shared in this snapchat group later. And she says, what in the world? I have no recollection of that whatsoever. She later states about that picture, the person that's smiling in that photograph, like that image is so upsetting to me. I look hammered in it. It doesn't appear that I'm wearing a shirt. My eyes are closed. And I looked like I look like a hammered sorority girl is what I call this image. I have absolutely zero recollection of this picture being taken. But continuing with the lawsuit, the lawsuit states that by Jonathan texting into the fraternity snapchat free pussy alum pull up or PU, quote, in doing so, Jonathan organized and encouraged other Zai chapter members to join in on the gang rape of Jane in the Zai chapter fraternity house. At this point, fraternity members, brothers just start walking into the room. Jane says that she's trying to retreat under the covers of the bed. She's unclowed. She's naked. She's trying to hide the lawsuit reads soon after Diego Sarabia. So Diego, remember Diego went in there seven minutes ago and was offline. He approaches Jane and according to the lawsuit grabs her face and starts kissing her without her consent and Jane pushes him away. Jane says that her phone is on the other side of the room and she feels like there's no way for her to escape this room. It's now filled with a bunch of fraternity guys. Most of them, she doesn't even know. So just to quickly emphasize the potential depravity, we've barely made a dent in Jane does lawsuit. It continues, defendant Jonathan then poured a line of ketamine on his erect penis and commanded that Jane snored it, which she did, is what the lawsuit says. Defendant Jonathan then gets into bed with Jane and begins groping her and reaching for her vagina again. Then as Jane is lying on her back on the bed, there's Matthew, her so-called friend. Jonathan, the guy that wanted to do the first three seven, he's the one that is consistently tied to ketamine in this case by the reporting. Then you have Winston Lee, Diego, who just came in and kissed Jane according to the lawsuit. Scott Norris and Scott Kay make their way up there because remember Scott Kay was like first hand POV, this is not a bit. Now the lawsuit claims that they all start pouring lines of ketamine all over Jane's body, her enclosed body, and starts snorting ketamine off of her body. Eventually, most of the guys leave except for Matthew, so her friend stays and Winston Lee. They take Jane into a smaller room upstairs, which is believed to be the fraternity president's office. So there's a separate lawsuit. It's John Doe, also Su's Cornell. More on this later, but John Doe seems to be one of the accused, though I cannot say with certainty legally speaking which one it is, but you can read the lawsuit and kind of get context clues. But more on it later, because there's a whole chapter nine investigation, and one of the accused doesn't like the school's findings. It's like I don't like the fact that I'm being punished for this because I don't think I did anything wrong. So they basically are just- That's why they're suing- Yes, Cornell. So there is a John Doe versus Cornell's civil lawsuit as well. I see. And that one, you're saying not a lot of people are talking about the details, right? Yeah, not a lot of people are talking about it, and this is the the craziest thing. Remember the Epstein files where there was just a lot of failed redactions. I mean, it was failed redactions, but more can you say about it, right? That was kind of the situation here. With the John Doe laws. Yes. So basically, Jane Doe investigation happened. Yes. And then shortly after, one of the-- John Does sued Cornell as well because they didn't like the outcome. Yes. But this was prior to Jane Doe. So nobody really-- Yeah, yeah, this happened like years ago, right? Yes. Until this year, the Jane Doe lawsuit became public, but nobody has talked about John Doe's lawsuit. Yes. So I do know that a lot of these big, I think, ABC news has been getting their hands on-- I don't know if they got the whole Title IX investigation, which that is not publicly available and probably will never be publicly available. It's a Title IX investigation, but I think they got it from like an inside source or something of that matter. And releasing random snippets every single day, just like, here's another random line. But this John Doe lawsuit, because the essence of the lawsuit is, hey, we don't agree with the Title IX investigation conclusion, there are lots of snippets of the Title IX investigation that are obviously included in this lawsuit. So it's like a hundred-page lawsuit, and there's just a lot of information in there that we've pieced together and tried to cross-- we're going to get into all the cross-referencing of who is who, because it's just a lot. It's a headache. But the lawsuit states that they have a room called The Pents, so I'm assuming like it's the president's room, the president of the fraternity, and it's upstairs. And next to that room is a smaller adjacent room called The Fofus, and this is not like a typo. I don't know if it's F office, I don't know if it's Fofus, Fofus, I don't know, it's unclear. But they bring her into this little Fofus, and it's tiny, it's kind of like a storage closet, it's not even an office, it's a little alcove with a desk, a computer, and two chairs. So it seems more like a storage closet, right? It's not like a big room. And once they're in there, the lawsuit details that Matthew and Winston make more lines of ketamine, and they instruct Jane to snort one, which she does. And by this point, Jane says that she is completely incapacitated. And quote, "Therefore, defendant Matthew and Winston initiated another assault of Jane enforcing oral and vaginal sex upon her simultaneously." At around 5.45 a.m., this assault concluded in plaintiff-lost consciousness. Jane wakes up later that day, now it's October 20th, and she goes back to the sorority house. She's in a state of shock. She says that she notices this large bruise on her butt area, and out of fear, she started taking, I guess out of fear, she started taking UTI medication as a preemptive measure. And it's not until later that day she starts becoming aware of what exactly happened to her at the flat house the night before, and how this is all, like it's all becoming public knowledge. Everyone's finding out about what happened on the Cornell campus. Jane's friends are encouraging her to report the incident. She eventually does November 8th. That's the first time she goes to campus police, the CUPD, Cornell University Police Department, and she reports exactly what happened that day, or what she alleges happened that day. Sci-chapter is placed on an instant temporary suspension for alleged violations of the student code of conduct. Temporary suspensions were also issued for several students, including the Cornell 7. So Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Jillio Lopes, Diego Sirabia, Scott Norris, and Scott Cretchmar. So according to Jane Doe's lawsuit, they are temporarily suspended, but some of them are given an opportunity. According to the lawsuit, Cornell says more or less, hey, show us how sorry you are by writing essays. The lawsuit says, quote, "who were afforded the opportunity to mitigate their conduct by submitting essays to Cornell." So just another timeline overview. This incident allegedly occurs October 19th, October 20th. Jane Doe goes to the campus police, November 8th. The very first Cornell statement in 2024 about this incident is November 26th. During Thanksgiving break, two days before Thanksgiving actually, Cornell releases a statement very quietly almost titled "update on disturbing allegations of sexual violence." It's as much of a non-statement as a statement can be. They're investigating the serious and deeply disturbing allegations of drug abuse and sexual violence at the Chi-5 fraternity house. Cornell's office of student conduct has been diligently reviewing all information regarding the allegations. They have taken a number of actions, including what? Addressing immediate health, safety, and educational concerns. Whatever that means, okay, they say that they are temporarily suspending the fraternity and temporary suspensions were issued for a number of students. They urge anyone who has experienced or is aware of sexual misconduct to report it via their online reporting tool, and quote, "for many, these have been a difficult few weeks, with events that have challenged how we see each other and think about our community." What the fuck does that mean? I am confident that our community will rise to this challenge as it has to others, and continue to pursue our individual and collective goals throughout the academic year. I wish all Cornelians a restful Thanksgiving break with loved ones, family, and friends. Sincerely, interim president, Michael Kotlikoff, so this is before he becomes, he was interim president at the time. Oh, two years ago, God, yes. Yeah. The one that probably should be a bit more careful when he reverses out of parking spots, that one, okay? Now, I have to say, the timing of this statement is intriguing to me. Thanksgiving break, students are off campus, perhaps unable to protest or block his car once more. Look, I'm just speculating. I'm giving opinions right now. I don't know for sure what students would have done. The general public is also very busy with Thanksgiving festivities, and I highly doubt news reporters and journalists are combing through Cornel's official statement websites to look for any suspicious activity. And there is a very general vagueness to the statement that I can't help but think it's very intentional the timing and vagueness. January 14th of 2025. So this is October. Now we're in January. Cornel commences a Title IX investigation into Jane Doe's formal complaint. Title IX is a federal law that in short, just to like simplify it, okay, because it is a pretty extensive law. It prohibits sex-based discrimination, including sexual harassment and essay and educational programs that receive federal financial assistance. And Cornel receives like a billion dollars, so much money, a federal assistance. So of course, Title IX, very important. Now, a Title IX investigation commences in January, and they put together this panel. So when you hear me say panel, just think Title IX investigation. So it's no longer, with the Cornel University Police Department, it's now the Title IX investigation. They're going to investigate what occurred. There's going to be a lot on this Title IX investigation. So. Cornel is investigating. Yes. Basically. So they have like a little panel. They have a lawyer on there. But these are not, these are not federal prosecutors. These are not prosecutors who are equipped to handle victims who might have been sexually assaulted and know how to investigate these things. They probably do not have subpoena power and search warrant power. Like a prosecutor's office would have, a DA's office would have. It is a Title IX investigation. Cornel, through a Title IX investigation, no matter what they find, they cannot press charges. They have no authority to take this criminally in any way. Now, it's unclear where the missing months go. It could be that Jane was busy with school or healing or was too traumatized to speak to anyone. But it's just, I think it's kind of weird that there's such a big gap. They finally commenced it in January and then be that as it may, right? It's really in May of 2025 that things start really kicking up. Next when the Title IX office holds at least like 12 hearings regarding Jane's allegations. And at the end of the Title IX investigation, it appears that two of the accused are expelled. Two of the accused are suspended but are allowed to return. One of them was allowed to return after three semesters. Who is expelled? Matthew and Jonathan are expelled. The first two. Yes. And then it is Winston and Jilio that are suspended. So those are the other two that were involved in sexual activity is how people keep phrasing it. Right. But Matthew is the one that initiated it is the one that invited her. Jonathan is the one that sent the free Pussy alum. He's also the one that Academy is, you know, is always tied to the Academy in reports. And then Winston and Jilio are the other ones that were involved in the conduct, but maybe I guess the school thought it was not as egregious as the other two. I guess I could only assume because that is a difference in the sanctions. So why are people so they were expelled? Yes. Two of them are expelled. Suspended, but they are back. Winston. It's unclear if Winston is back. There could have been a transfer. He could have been, he could have come back. But Jilio is back. He was seen on campus like last week. And someone recorded him. Yeah. He's back. He's graduating. He was on campus. So receive academic sanctions, we're going to get into it, but exactly zero are charged. Zero of them of the seven are investigated by the local DA's office. Meanwhile, Jane Doe drops out of school after the alleged assault. And outside of Cornell and those who know these individuals, nobody really knows about this. This is not on the news. This is not made public. The DA's office doesn't make public statements that get attention at the time. Nobody knows about this alleged seven hour gang rape inside of a fraternity house at Cornell University until this year, until two years later, when Jane Doe files a civil lawsuit. Cornell University, Tridelta, her former sorority, Kai Fai, the fraternity, Moonie's bar, and the seven fraternity brothers. Jane Doe's states, "What I experienced from those who raped me and the fraternity was the worst experience of my life. I was brutalized and it injured me physically, but perhaps more importantly, emotionally. I want to recover from this trauma, but it is extremely difficult. It affects every aspect of my life. It will haunt me and be part of me for the rest of my life." And this case gets picked up instantly after Jane Doe's lawsuit. By almost every single mainstream media news outlet in the United States, celebrities start posting pictures of the Cornell 7 and it completely blows up. And that is where I leave you with the first half of the Cornell 7. In the second half of this episode, we're going to go through the weirdest statements made by the DA's office. It's just bizarre. The way that the DA's office is handling it now in 2026 is something that I have never seen before. As well as further allegations and text messages that are being released, that's all going to be covered in the second half. Stay safe. That's going to come up as soon as I can edit. And I will see you in the next one.