HOLLYWOOD HATES AMERICA, film at 11
Interesting that ex-US Sen Chris Dodd, a Democrat, who was in a position to do so, as the Motion Picture Association of America’s chairman/CEO, did nothing about Weinstein’s ongoing atrocities. Or maybe, like Meryl Streep, Dodd “did not know.” Dodd also never knew 2000 miles away, at the NY Film School, female graduates were told not to take jobs with The Weinstein Company.
REFERENCE-—RICO rape filed against Weinstein and Disney
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4491672-Weinstein-Rico-06-01-2018-Suit.html ^ / FR Posted on 6/2/2018 by MNDude
90 pages of Weinstein’s activities, his tactics and accomplices——all the Hollywood types who covered-up for him.
THIS IS HOW HOLLYWOOD WORKS-—a little bgrnd on how to get a movie contract in Hollywood.
NY POST BY BRUCE GOLDING, Oct 15, 2017 Famed former Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein worked as a consultant for Harvey Weinstein after he was accused of groping a model in his Tribeca office two years ago,according to a new report Sunday.
Fairstein helped set up a series of meetings between Weinsteins lead defense lawyer and Martha Bashford, the head of the Sex Crimes Unit in the Manhattan District Attorneys Office and a close friend of Fairsteins, the New York Times reported.
Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. later declined to prosecute Weinstein over the March 27, 2015, incident, and last week said his decision was guided by the sex-crime team.
Prosecutor Fairstein a best-selling novelist who in 2007 wrote a Vanity Fair column about wanting to make a movie with Weinstein defended her decision to work for the since-disgraced producer by vouching for defense lawyer Elkan Abramowitz.
Calling Ms. Bashford to tell her who Elkan was and to ask her to consider meeting with him is the kind of thing I do four to six times every year, she told the Times. The Times didnt detail Fairsteins consulting deal, but said the ex-prosecutor celebrated for winning the conviction of preppy killer Robert Chambers in 1988 didnt believe the allegation against Weinstein. In a Monday email to The Post, Fairstein said she called Bashford at the request of Abramowitz, who she described as a friend of 25 years, and not Weinstein.
I never received a fee from either, she wrote. I read documents and made an intro by phone.
The Times report also revealed that an NYPD detective intervened during a secretly recorded encounter between accuser Ambra Batillana Gutierrez and Weinstein inside the Tribeca Grand Hotel, a day after she accused him of grabbing her breasts and trying to slip his hand up her skirt.
The plainclothes cop got worried when Weinstein grew belligerent while trying to coax Gutierrez, then 22, into a hotel room, the Times said, so he pretended to be a TMZ reporter seeking an interview with Weinstein. The maneuver reportedly led Weinstein to retreat from the hallway and let Gutierrez escape out a side door.The detective later identified himself to Weinstein, who agreed to go to a police station for questioning.
But Weinstein refused to answer any questions about Gutierrez groping allegations and instead asked for a lawyer, the Times said. NYPD officials who spoke to the Times on condition of anonymity denied a claim last week by Vances No. 2, Chief Assistant DA Karen Friedman-Agnifilo, who said: The seasoned prosecutors in our Sex Crimes Unit were not afforded the opportunity before the meeting to counsel investigators on what was necessary to capture in order to prove a misdemeanor sex crime.Why would we not call about Harvey Weinstein? a senior police official said. The same official said the recording on which Weinstein apologized for touching Gutierrez and repeatedly promised he wouldnt do it again was enough evidence to charge him with misdemeanor sexual abuse.He admitted, twice, doing it. Thats probable cause to make an arrest, the official said.
Vance who is running unopposed for a third term in November told the Times that he discussed the case with Bashford and Friedman-Agnifilo at least three times before accepting Bashfords recommendation to drop it. I didnt have any pushback on Marthas opinion, mindful that Martha has greater expertise in sex crimes than I do, he said. Bashford declined to comment, the Times said.