Harvey Weinstein being investigated for additional sex assaults

Prosecutors are probing “additional convulsive intersexual assaults” they opportunity erstwhile Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein committed and intend to activity a caller indictment aft his erstwhile condemnation was overturned, a charismatic said connected Tuesday.

Prosecutor Nicole Blumberg said successful a proceeding earlier Judge Curtis Farber successful New York authorities criminal tribunal successful Manhattan that nan further assaults Weinstein allegedly committed were still wrong nan statute of limitations to beryllium charged arsenic crimes.

Weinstein was recovered blameworthy connected rape allegations successful 2020 successful a milestone for nan #MeToo movement, successful which women accused hundreds of men successful entertainment, media, authorities and different fields of intersexual misconduct.

A assemblage recovered nan 72-year-old Miramax movie workplace co-founder sexually assaulted erstwhile accumulation adjunct Miriam Haley successful 2006 and raped aspiring character Jessica Mann successful 2013. They are among much than 80 women who person accused him of intersexual misconduct. He was sentenced to 23 years successful prison.

But nan New York Court of Appeals successful April recovered that Judge James Burke, who presided complete nan trial, made a captious correction by allowing 3 women to attest astir alleged intersexual assaults by Weinstein that were not portion of nan criminal charges against him.

The tribunal said that grounds astir “prior bad acts” violated his correct to a adjacent trial.

Weinstein has denied having non-consensual encounters pinch anyone. Arthur Aidala, Weinstein’s lawyer, said connected Tuesday it was unfair for prosecutors to activity to adhd further victims to nan lawsuit aft nan condemnation was overturned.

“Once again we person a hotline: ‘1-800 Get Harvey,'” Aidala said successful court.

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Weinstein is suffering from a big of aesculapian problems while being held successful solitary confinement astatine New York City’s Rikers Island jail, Aidala said. He accused prosecutors of utilizing hold strategies to support Weinstein incarcerated, which Blumberg denied.

“As we said successful 2020, location were women who were not fresh to proceed pinch nan ineligible process. Some of those women are now fresh to proceed,” Blumberg said.

Weinstein was besides sentenced to 16 years pursuing a abstracted rape proceedings successful California. The 2 sentences cannot beryllium served concurrently.

Miramax’s deed movies included “Shakespeare successful Love” and “Pulp Fiction.” Weinstein’s ain eponymous movie workplace revenge for bankruptcy successful March 2018.

–Reporting by Jack Queen successful New York; Editing by Bill Berkrot