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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"The case against Weinstein began on the evening of March 27, 2015"
It would be interesting to reveal the political machine involved in putting pressure against this investigation given the timing in relationship to the coming 2016 election. Weinstein was a major $$ donor to progressive politicians.
harvey weinstein jokes
“”hard to be friends or talk to family that are rooting for the team that want our downfall””
When I don’t have a choice about speaking to certain family members or friends, I am downright amazed at their thought process. They ACTUALLY DO BELIEVE that President Trump is going to destroy the country and THAT North Korea will nuke us because of him. They state it without any hesitation whatsoever much like they would tell me what the weather is like where they are.
I can commiserate.
It’s just stuns me like a deer in headlights to hear the “logic” coming out of their mouths.
If there wasn’t so much on the line, it would be comical.
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