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Proof: DA's office declined to review additional material on Cornell 'gang rape' probe: Docs

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T18:01:45Z","headline":"DA's office declined to review additional material on Cornell 'gang rape' probe: Docs","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"abcnews","url":"https://abcnews.com/US/tompkins-county-das-office-declined-review-additional-material/story?id=136973934","v":1}

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SHA-256

70e453f62de35ba88c1f969eb265718d04f65f9c3d6749240e5f603dc563cb2c

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969756, mined 2026-10-03 19:52 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-03 18:04 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-03 18:04 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-70e453f62de3.json prints 70e453f62de35ba88c1f969eb265718d04f65f9c3d6749240e5f603dc563cb2c. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-70e453f62de3.json and headline-70e453f62de3.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-70e453f62de3.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 1 min after it was first seen.