{"id":363544,"date":"2026-10-03T07:53:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363544\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T07:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:53:20","slug":"man-accused-in-cornell-rape-case-allegedly-asked-sorority-member-not-to-say-anything-that-she-thinks-mightve-happened-title-ix-investigation-transcript-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363544\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused in Cornell rape case allegedly asked sorority member not to “say anything that she thinks might’ve happened,” Title IX investigation transcript says"},"content":{"rendered":"

More information is coming to light about what the people at the center of the Cornell University alleged rape case<\/a> said in the days and weeks after the incident.<\/p>\n

CBS News New York obtained a Title IX record from a source that includes Jane Doe’s account, interviews with six of the seven men named in the lawsuit, and 20 witnesses.<\/p>\n

According to the record, a student who had been at the Chi Phi house the night of the alleged assault in 2024 says she got a call the next day from one of the accused men. She said the call took place right before an event at her sorority.<\/p>\n

The student alleges the man asked her to make sure a friend of hers didn’t “say anything that she thinks might’ve happened last night,” and he added that another fraternity member was “really concerned.”<\/p>\n

The student said at the time, she didn’t think much of it and assumed he was just embarrassed and didn’t want a rumor to spread.<\/p>\n

The record says the student said she passed the message along to her friend, who was also later interviewed by investigators.<\/p>\n

That friend said the man’s alleged comments “clicked” weeks later when Cornell sent out a campus crime alert.<\/p>\n

“It makes a lot more sense,” she told the investigator. “And it was very concerning.”<\/p>\n

The friend and a third woman, her roommate, said they went to Cornell Police. She says she wrote a witness statement, but added, “I’m pretty sure I don’t know what they did with that.”<\/p>\n

What happened to that witness statement is not referenced in the 565 pages of the Title IX record obtained by CBS News New York.<\/p>\n

Online, Cornell originally said it shared all investigatory information with the Tompkins County district attorney’s office, but has since changed its FAQ<\/a> to say it shared “the victim’s sworn statement and the Snapchat screenshot.” The DA told CBS News New York he only received Jane Doe’s 2024 statement and a Snapchat video.<\/p>\n

According to the record, the investigator asked the accused man if he ever had a phone call with the first student about that night. He said, “No.”<\/p>\n

A month later, in written corrections, he said that he “did talk to her at one point when she visited about not spreading any rumors.”<\/p>\n

Earlier in that same interview, the record shows when asked how the fraternity brothers handled the rumors, he said, “We were just in the idea of just deny.”<\/p>\n

The district attorney initially declined to bring charges against any of the accused men, but has now reopened the investigation<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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