reade seligmann had to borrow the money from a friend.ad to appeal to a judge because the friend wanted it back. david evans' mother is a big lobbyist. his father works at a law firm. they clearly had the resources. by the way, their defense team did an extraordinary job defending these kids. whether these kids got away with something or not, we would never know. they exploited every mistake that mike nifong. they got the state bar to attack mike nifong and file a complaint against him that forced him to recuse himself and turn it over to roy cooper. innocent.eclared them >> david evans' mother was a lobbyist for cbs for a long time? >> that is correct. >> is there a bigger lesson to learn? goes beyond duke to other colleges? the legal aspect of this? >> well, to some extent, and shows how the legal system can be corrupted. from both sides. it can be corrected by a prosecutor who is too aggressive in making statements, even though he believes in his mind that he is bringing it to trial. clearly, the justices here. there was no trial. how

'su see reade seligmann emotion. emotion.ne david evans' that was six months before brett cooper declared them innocent. they have been able to go on with their lives. , he was and business school. i heard back from wharton saying i wish you would not contacted him at wharton because i do not think his classmates realize he is the david evans from the duke lacrosse case. they have gone on with their lives as they should. unless they got away with something. i also tell the story in this book of brian mcfadden, the guy who wrote in the e-mail. ruined buts been not almost ruined by the e-mail he sent that night that he thought was a joke. he thought he was sending it to his fellow players. he had to change his name. about how hiserpt life has been changed forever because of what he did in the early morning hours of march 14. >> it seems like if i were the president of duke or any of these people, i would not talk to you. why would i want you to rehash all of this and reminded everybody about what happened? >> nobody wa

>> reade seligmann, who grew up in new york city. he went to a private school. , whose fathererty was a senior executive at bear stearns right before it collapsed which was the subject of my second book "house of cards." >> let's look a footage of reade seligmann. in 2007 -- when were they found innocent? 11, 2000 seven. >> ok, let's watch this. [video clip] >> came in and said, she picked you. and -- i mean, my dad fell to the floor. and i just sat on the ground. and i said my life is over. >> what do you see? >> very moving testimony that was given during mike nifong's state bar hearing where he was eventually disbarred from. and then he was fired as well as the durham district attorney. very moving obviously. very emotional. reade seligmann was the only one of the three indicted boys that reached out to me. i reached out to them and most of them said no. they would not speak to me. reade seligmann wanted to speak. we had e-mail correspondence which i include in the book. and the lawyers thought the better of having me speak to him