OSG High: Banks Rape Accuser Must Pay Back $2.6M To School District

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Wanetta Gibson accused Brian Banks of raping her as they were both in high school at Long Beach Poly in 2002. Banks was the high school football star who, seemingly, had his life in front of him at the time.

Banks was convicted, only to be released ten years later after years of appeals, and found out that the allegations Gibson made on rape and kidnapping after a consensual sexual act were false- she admitted to that on tape after she received her settlement.

Banks was released from jail in May of 2012 and is trying to catch on with the Atlanta Falcons as a linebacker.

Greg Mellen of the Long Beach Press-Telegram now says that the Long Beach school district can now try and reclaim the settlement Gibson got from them. She currently is somewhere she can't be found, but the district can get their money back from future wages.

Don Lemon discusses with Sunny Hostin
The settlement was somewhere between $750,000 and $1.5-million.

Brian Banks Gets His Shot

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The HQ has chronicled the struggle Brian Banks has had to proclaim his innocence while spending five years behind bars. He was accused of rape and spent five years in prison before a judge overturned the sentence in May after the victim recanted her story.

Turns out all the alleged victim wanted was money to solidify her story...

Now, Jim Fassel and the Las Vegas Locos are giving Banks his chance after he spent the summer getting tryouts with the Seattle Seahawks and two other NFL teams...

Amy Powell has the sound from Vegas...


Very cool... and the HQ hopes it's only the beginning for the Long Beach Poly grad...

Brian Banks Gets His Seattle Tryout

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OSG Sports told you about the saga of freed man Brian Banks and his trek to and from prison and, now, to a pro football tryout ten years after his career came to a screeching halt after a false accusation of rape sent him to prison.

We first told you the story hyah...

Here's Leanne Suter outside Long Beach Poly with the update...


Seattle offered him a spot in mini-camp and Banks is weighing his options...

Banks Rape Sentence Vacated

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A former Long Beach Poly high school football star was exonerated on a rape conviction by a southern California judge.

Brian Banks lawyer told him to plead nolo contendere 10 years ago after a childhood friend, Wanetta Gibson, falsely accused him of attacking her on their high school campus. After serving five years in prison and another five on probation with an ankle monitor attached, Gibson (at some point after his release) friended Banks on Facebook.

She would admit to him twice that she lied- once on tape. Gibson's only hang-up was that she didn't want to give back $1.5-million her family got in a civil settlement from the Long Beach City School System.

Gordon Tokumatsu was outside the courthouse...

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Banks' lawyers are asking pro football franchises to give their client a chance to play some kind of pro ball since Banks had accepted a scholarship to play at USC the day of the alleged assault.