Posted on 10/11/2017 9:40:19 PM PDT by KingofZion
wo years and six months ago, the Manhattan district attorney had an opportunity to charge Harvey Weinstein with a sex crime. On Tuesday, reports by the New Yorker and the Daily Beast detailed the series of events that led to this opportunity—and what happened after Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office decided not to pursue it. That decision is now under scrutiny, as is Vance’s credibility as an elected official.
“I’m not impressed by the decision to not go forward here,” said Matthew Galluzzo, who spent several years with the Sex Crimes Unit in the Manhattan DA’s office. “They’d prosecute 9 people out of 10 with the kinds of goods they had on him.”
The case against Weinstein began on the evening of March 27, 2015, when Ambra Battilana Gutierrez walked into the 9th Precinct of the New York Police Department to report an assault. Just a few hours earlier, she said, Weinstein had groped her and put his hand under her skirt during a meeting in his office. An NYPD commander told the Daily Beast that Gutierrez, who was 22 at the time, looked “distraught” and “upset” as she made her report.
After hearing Gutierrez’s allegations, NYPD investigators came up with a plan that is common in sexual assault cases: The alleged victim would agree to meet Weinstein the following night and wear a wire, with the goal of getting him to say something incriminating and capturing it on tape.
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Elected official, no party affiliation?
How rich, internecine liberal warfare as they eat themselves alive trying to find someone to blame. What’s the matter dunderheads, can you not circle the wagons as is your customary wont? My heart bleeds liberal tears. HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa..........................
If it looks like corruption, smells like corruption, and involves a liberal from a long-time Democrat family - then it’s corruption.
He’s a democrat.
It would be more fun and funny if women weren’t abused
The left is never about the individual, no matter whom. It is about power and control.
it’s disgusting
they are disgusting
they are the enemy
hard to be friends or talk to family that are rooting for the team that want our downfall
Fail. No mention of party. They author “had the goods” on this story and the NY DA Vance, but failed to mention he is a democrat. The author demonstrates, ironically, why the Harvey Weinsteins happen.
Good grief, that “actress” is pathetic, she did ask for it behaving like that, believe me, I have run out of a building the one time someone tried anything like that on me. You don’t stand there whining, you take off.
Forget it Jack. It’s Hollywood!
Did you read the article? She had a wire on with the cops listening. It was her job to stay there long enough to get him to say something incriminating.
I read it, but still thought she was effing pathetic
There’s an insane number of imbeciles on this site who have some sort of desire to sully the board with accusations leveled at the victims. I’m beginning to think they’re plants to make all the rest of us look bad.
That makes no sense— you want her to leave when she was working undercover to get him to say something incriminating???
These Leftwing rags are always late to the stories they sat on.
I actually want them all to leave at the first sign of trouble.
“We’re going to wire you and send you in there to meet with Weinstein. Try to get him to admit to last night’s assault. But if he starts to say anything incriminating, run out of the building immediately.”
This makes sense to you?
“Elected official, no party affiliation?”
Son of Jimmah Carter’s Secretary of State. All you need to know.
Tell the police to use a different decoy, no it doesn’t make sense to me. Poor police work.
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