Disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on extra intercourse crimes expenses forward of his retrial in New York, Manhattan prosecutors mentioned at a listening to Thursday.
The indictment will stay beneath seal till Weinstein’s arraignment, which is scheduled for Sept. 18.
Weinstein, 72, is recovering from emergency coronary heart surgical procedure Monday at a Manhattan hospital and was not at Thursday’s listening to.
Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg’s workplace disclosed at a current courtroom listening to that prosecutors had begun presenting to a grand jury proof of as much as three extra allegations in opposition to Weinstein, courting way back to the mid-2000s.
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Prosecutors had been searching for to retry Weinstein after his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault expenses was tossed by an appeals courtroom earlier this 12 months. It stays to be seen whether or not the brand new expenses might be included within the retrial, as prosecutors hope, or dealt with as a separate case by the courtroom.
The brand new expenses come after prosecutors in Britain introduced final week that they might now not pursue expenses of indecent assault in opposition to Weinstein, who was probably the most distinguished villain of the #MeToo motion in 2017 when girls started going public with accounts of his conduct.
The 72-year-old co-founder of the movie and tv manufacturing firm Miramax has lengthy maintained that any sexual exercise was consensual.
He’s subsequent anticipated to seem in Manhattan courtroom for a listening to within the case on Sept. 12. His retrial is tentatively slated for November.
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