Trump Sued for Defamation by Exonerated ‘Central Park Five’
- Lawsuit is over comments he made in presidential debate
- Five teenagers wrongfully convicted in 1989 jogger rape case
Raymond Santana, Korey Wise, Dr. Yusef Salaam, and Kevin Richardson, representing the exonerated “Central Park Five,” during the Democratic National Convention in August.
Photographer: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
Donald Trump is facing a defamation lawsuit over comments he made during the September presidential debate about five men who were wrongly convicted in the 1989 jogger rape case and came to be known as the “Central Park Five.”
The men, who were teenagers when they were arrested, said in a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Philadelphia that Trump defamed them by saying during the debate that they had pleaded guilty when they hadn’t. Trump also made erroneous comments during the debate suggesting someone had been killed during the 1989 incident.