NORRISTOWN — (AP) Bill Cosby’s spokesman has released a statement from a woman who says Andrea Constand told her of a plan to falsely accuse a “high-profile person” of sexual assault so she could sue and get money.
Andrew Wyatt read the statement from longtime Temple University official Marguerite Jackson on Tuesday as jurors deliberated charges that Cosby drugged and molested Constand at his Pennsylvania home in 2004.
A judge blocked Jackson from testifying at the trial, ruling it would be hearsay.
Jackson says Constand once told her she’d been drugged and sexually assaulted. She says the Temple basketball director immediately recanted, then said she could make a false accusation, win a lawsuit and use the money to go to school and open a business.
Constand said on the witness stand she didn’t know Jackson. Constand’s lawyer says Jackson isn’t being truthful.
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