Disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on extra intercourse crimes prices forward of his retrial in New York, Manhattan prosecutors stated at a listening to Thursday.
The indictment will stay underneath 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 Lawyer Alvin Bragg’s workplace disclosed at a current court docket listening to that prosecutors had begun presenting to a grand jury proof of as much as three extra allegations towards Weinstein, courting way back to the mid-2000s.
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Prosecutors had been looking for to retry Weinstein after his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault prices was tossed by an appeals court docket earlier this 12 months. It stays to be seen whether or not the brand new prices can be included within the retrial, as prosecutors hope, or dealt with as a separate case by the court docket.
The brand new prices come after prosecutors in Britain introduced final week that they might now not pursue prices of indecent assault towards Weinstein, who was probably the most outstanding 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 court docket for a listening to within the case on Sept. 12. His retrial is tentatively slated for November.
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