Morgan Stanley’s Jennings Pleads Not Guilty to Stabbing Driver
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William Bryan Jennings, the Morgan Stanley U.S. bond-underwriting chief accused of stabbing a New York cab driver over a fare, pleaded not guilty to assault and hate-crime charges based on the man’s Middle Eastern descent.
Jennings’s lawyer, Eugene J. Riccio, entered the plea on his client’s behalf yesterday before Connecticut Superior Court Judge Robert L. Genuario in Stamford. Jennings wore a blue suit, white shirt and patterned tie to the proceeding, which lasted less than a minute. He and Riccio left the courthouse without speaking to reporters and drove away in a pickup truck. His next court date is April 12.