From [HERE] The criminal case against a former Morgan Stanley MS +2.54% executive charged with stabbing a cab driver following a fare dispute was dropped Monday after a Connecticut state’s attorney revealed that the driver waited to turn 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 (in photo), a white man, 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.

In an ensuing scuffle, Ammar was stabbed in the hand with a pen knife. Ammar, who is from Egypt, also reported that Jennings told him to “go back” to his country. Jennings was at the time Morgan Stanley’s co-head of U.S. bond underwriting. He is no longer at the company. Weiss emphasized that Jennings didn’t immediately call police and described him as uncooperative. But he said Ammar couldn’t adequately explain why he didn’t immediately give the knife to investigators, even after an interview and a search of his cab.