Charges Dropped Against Ex-Morgan Stanley Executive

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Deal Journal colleague Andrew Strickler files this update on the Morgan Stanley MS +2.40% executive charged with allegedly stabbing a cab driver following a fare dispute.

The criminal case against a former Morgan Stanley MS +1.04% executive charged with stabbing a cab driver following a fare dispute was dropped Monday after a Connecticut state’s attorney revealed that the driver never turned the knife over to police.

The driver, Mohamed Ammar, “had the knife the whole time,” said supervisory assistant state’s attorney Steven Weiss. “He had ample opportunity to tell police and he didn’t do that.”

The defendant, William Bryan Jennings, was charged with assault and hate crimes for attacking Ammar last December after the driver took Jennings from Manhattan to Jennings’ home in Darien, Conn.

Ammar claimed Jennings refused to pay the fare and that he drove off with Jennings still in his cab to look for police.