Moonies fired back at her claims in a court filing of its own, denying it served her any alcohol, much less “sold or furnished alcoholic beverages to any visibly intoxicated person,” according to TMZ.
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THE REVIEWERS
Schumer's 'no stone unturned' vow survived by the stone no prosecutor turned.
As it ran on the front
"No Stone Unturned," the promise Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer made about the Cornell rape case, was born September 30 in a public statement calling the allegations "horrifying" and vowing a review that would leave nothing unexamined. It was preceded in death by the decision that made it necessary: the Tompkins County district attorney's choice not to bring charges, reached, NBC News reported October 3, without ever reviewing the witness statements and other evidence Cornell police had already collected. The promise died three days after it was made, the moment the public learned the stone it named had been sitting there, unturned, the whole time.
It is survived by a tip. Cornell police received an anonymous call about Chi Phi fraternity members seeking to keep the alleged October 2024 incident under wraps — a tip filed in the same drawer as everything else nobody read.…
…(cont) It is survived, too, by three appointees, each arriving after the original evidence had already gone unexamined for roughly two years. Cornell retained Sally Yates, the former acting U.S. attorney general, to lead its own review. New York Attorney General Letitia James was named special prosecutor by Governor Kathy Hochul — and is now the subject of a motion, filed by a lawyer for one of the "Cornell 7" defendants, seeking her removal over comments she made before taking the case. The Faculty Senate may vote no confidence in the university's administration — a vote aimed at the people in charge of Cornell, not a body that oversees James's investigation, which answers to Albany, not Ithaca.
The list grew longer this week without the file getting any shorter — more names than news, and that is its own kind of malarkey. A university survey found 35 percent of undergraduate women reported nonconsensual sexual contact in 2025. A separate analysis found that just 13 percent of Cornell's sexual-misconduct complaints end in expulsion or dismissal combined, in a span where the school expelled about one student a year. The bar named in the civil suit, Moonies, filed its own denial, disputing that it served the Jane Doe named in the complaint any alcohol at all. Students gathered on campus to protest, holding signs for a classmate whose case has now outlasted one promise and one election cycle's worth of attention.
No stone unturned is survived by the stone. In lieu of flowers, somebody read the witness statements.
“They don't call it a cover-up, they call it a review, and you can tell it's a review because by the time it starts, the evidence has already sat in a drawer for two years. Every new name that gets added to this thing — Yates, James, the Faculty Senate — is somebody getting a title to look at a file the DA already had and never opened. The whole racket works because you don't have to lose a case you never actually open.”
“Multiple reviews isn't a cover-up, it's thoroughness — Cornell brought in Sally Yates, the state brought in its own attorney general, that's more oversight, not less. Sure, a lawyer for one of the defendants wants Letitia James taken off the case over comments she made before she was even special prosecutor, but — wait, if her own comments are the problem, maybe the thoroughness argument doesn't... yeah, I'm going to stop there.”
Earlier in this story
- DOJ prosecutors ignored their own evidence; a judge dismissed their case with prejudice, permanently. By Mort · the matinee edition, 6 October 2026
The receipts
Cornell University students staged a protest in solidarity with Jane Doe, a former classmate whose gang-rape allegations ignited a national uproar. Protesters demanded the school take firmer action against sexual violence on campus and called for an external inquiry into how the matter has been handled by Cornell's administration. In a…
A day after Cornell authorities alerted students about a reported rape, campus police got an anonymous tip about Chi Phi seeking to keep the alleged incident under wraps.
New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the rape allegations, but the lawyer says comments she made on the case should disqualify her.
University leaders may face a no-confidence vote by the Faculty Senate over their response to allegations of sexual assault on campus.
Sally Yates is a former acting U.S. attorney general and deputy attorney general and a longtime federal prosecutor.
· Schumer calls for review of 'horrifying' Cornell rape case: 'No stone unturned' from the morgue, 30 Sep 2026
· DA did not review witness statements and other evidence Cornell police collected in alleged gang rape of student from the morgue, 3 Oct 2026
· Letitia James appointed special prosecutor in alleged gang-rape at Cornell from the morgue, 2 Oct 2026
· Cornell survey finds 35 percent of female undergrads reported nonconsensual sexual contact in 2025 from the morgue, 2 Oct 2026
· Just 13% of Cornell sexual misconduct claims lead to expulsion, dismissal – and the Ivy League school isn’t alone from the morgue, 30 Sep 2026
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