Weinstein Co. Board Claimed “Shocked And Dismayed” By Harvey’s Odious Behavior. Seriously?
[guest post by Dana]
Here is the company’s statement regarding the reports of Harvey Weinstein’s predatory behavior:
The Weinstein Company’s Board of Representatives – Bob Weinstein, Lance Maerov, Richard Koenigsberg and Tarak Ben Ammar – are shocked and dismayed by the recently emerged allegations of extreme sexual misconduct and sexual assault by Harvey Weinstein. These alleged actions are antithetical to human decency. These allegations come as an utter surprise to the Board. Any suggestion that the Board had knowledge of this conduct is false.
If it were true that the Board had no inkling of what Harvey Weinstein was doing to women, it would seem that TMZ wouldn’t be reporting that his contract essentially allowed him to sexually harass women. As is being reported, the contract stated that if Weinstein was sued for sexual misconduct and the company had to pay out a settlement, Weinstein could still keep his job as long as he reimbursed the company for the amount and pay a pre-determined fine on top of that. If this was built into his contract, it certainly leads one to believe that the Board knew what he was up to with women. On top of that, because he would also have to pay a fine to the company with each settlement, Board members could actually profit from his predatory behavior while looking the other way. Win-win:
Harvey Weinstein may have been fired illegally by The Weinstein Company, a company that wrote a contract that said Weinstein could get sued over and over for sexual harassment and as long as he shelled out money, that was good enough for the Company.
TMZ is privy to Weinstein’s 2015 employment contract, which says if he gets sued for sexual harassment or any other “misconduct” that results in a settlement or judgment against TWC, all Weinstein has to do is pay what the company’s out, along with a fine, and he’s in the clear.
According to the contract, if Weinstein “treated someone improperly in violation of the company’s Code of Conduct,” he must reimburse TWC for settlements or judgments. Additionally, “You [Weinstein] will pay the company liquidated damages of $250,000 for the first such instance, $500,000 for the second such instance, $750,000 for the third such instance, and $1,000,000 for each additional instance.”
The contract says as long as Weinstein pays, it constitutes a “cure” for the misconduct and no further action can be taken. Translation — Weinstein could be sued over and over and as long as he wrote a check, he keeps his job.
The report goes on to note that that Harvey Weinstein could be fired if “indicted or convicted of a crime,” or if he committed a “material fraud against the company”. But:
Lance Maerov, the board member who negotiated Weinstein’s 2015 contract, said in an interview — and we’ve confirmed — the Board knew Weinstein had settled prior lawsuits brought by various women, but they “assumed” it was to cover up consensual affairs. The Board’s assumption does not constitute fraud on Weinstein’s part.
And here’s the kicker. Even if Weinstein had committed fraud by not fully informing the Board of Directors, the contract says before he can be fired he has a right to mediation and if that doesn’t work, he’s entitled to arbitration. He got neither.
Mr. Maerov said that his chief concern had been whether Mr. Weinstein’s behavior posed a legal liability for the business, and that after receiving assurances that no company money was used and that no complaints against Mr. Weinstein were pending, he had approved the contract.
These people are amoral animals. Whether a sexual deviant preying on vulnerable young women, or money-grubbing fat cats willing to look the other way as long as they could profit off of Harvey Weinstein’s intimidating, inappropriate, and illegal behavior, their hands are all dirty.
(Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.)
–Dana
Will Harvey Weinstein sue for wrongful termination?
Dana (023079) — 10/13/2017 @ 10:52 amit was feminism what preceded our rapey friend harvey into bankruptcy
happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/13/2017 @ 10:54 amUnion bank is no longer disposed to funding weinsteins edgy projects
http:/variety.com/2017/film/global/oliver-stone-harvey-weinstein-guantanamo-1202589124
narciso (d1f714) — 10/13/2017 @ 10:56 amI wouldn’t, right away. I’d wait and hope that by putting on a little “shocked and dismayed, we fired the SOB” theater, the company would remain solvent enough to provide me with a golden parachute.
nk (dbc370) — 10/13/2017 @ 10:57 amHow does drama work? There’s what the author knows but the audience does not; what the audience knows but the cast does not; what one cast member knows but another does not? We’ve got all three here — it’s a hit!
nk (dbc370) — 10/13/2017 @ 11:03 amI wondered about this fellow who is on the board
narciso (d1f714) — 10/13/2017 @ 11:05 am:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0069893
batman likes to do bad touch on young girls
i guess it was always even money
happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/13/2017 @ 11:06 amAllegedly bob weinstein. Has collected a long file of his brother transgresdions, if this so its like felt informing onpn nixon,
narciso (d1f714) — 10/13/2017 @ 11:12 ampeople should remember that Harvey’s the good-lookin one of the two
happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/13/2017 @ 11:12 amThey are all shocked into silence.
http://lucianne.com/images/lucianne/DailyPhoto/2017-10-13.jpg
Rev.Hoagie® (6bbda7) — 10/13/2017 @ 11:16 amDo others in the Weinstein company have the same or similar provisions in their contracts, or is Harvey the only one? The answer will go a long way toward indicating foreknowledge.
ropelight (bbe920) — 10/13/2017 @ 11:27 amI wonder if Fox gave Ailes the same dollars for doughnuts proviso evil grin
Ben burn (b3d5ab) — 10/13/2017 @ 12:38 pmTherapy in L.A. could hit epidemic levels.
mg (31009b) — 10/13/2017 @ 12:39 pmhttp://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/news/a17788/amazon-harvey-weinstein-robert-de-niro-tv-project
narciso (d1f714) — 10/13/2017 @ 12:40 pmamazon still has that show about the hideous and terrifying lithgow trannies what pursue a small and dwindling band of survivors across the American South
happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/13/2017 @ 12:44 pmThe sad thing is NBC discarding young female lives for the Democrat Party cause.
mg (31009b) — 10/13/2017 @ 12:50 pmHere we go:
Dana (ae99a0) — 10/13/2017 @ 12:52 pmthey should have followed the flowchart
happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/13/2017 @ 1:05 pmYes but if union bank and goldman pull funding, he’s reduced to puppet shows, yes i know its all captain Renault.
They did have an interesting series telephone girls set in Spain in the 20s
narciso (531731) — 10/13/2017 @ 1:06 pmwienstein offered to pay clinton campaign to stop bernie sanders from getting nomination. the corporate state demands the establishment democratic party and hollywood control the left democratic base. just as they fear the republican tea party base. only “safe” republicans and democrats who they own must control their bases and be protected.
vice squad (486220) — 10/13/2017 @ 1:17 pmThink of what we don’t know…
mg (31009b) — 10/13/2017 @ 1:55 pmPredators with makeovers. Perhaps some lipstick.
Reboot those nature shows. Run, rabbit, run. Lawyer up.
Hire a decorator. Use a blacklight, and replace everything.
neal (3f9258) — 10/13/2017 @ 2:12 pmDNA most everywhere. Even unto the ferns, but the ceiling? Really that seems to be a bit much. Ew.
You think Weinstein is the only one, no major studio isn’t involved?
narciso (531731) — 10/13/2017 @ 2:12 pmhillary appeared enjoying the space with weinstein
mg (31009b) — 10/13/2017 @ 2:14 pmsusan collins announced today that she will not be running for govna of Maine.
mg (31009b) — 10/13/2017 @ 2:21 pmI heard team rino is searching for a comeback – rubio/collins 2020
https://www.thewrap.com/er-actress-says-george-clooney-helped-blacklist-p-grabber-complaint/
mg (31009b) — 10/13/2017 @ 2:55 pmclooney clooney clooney
It’s been a long time since I took Criminal Law, but it seems to me that the act of setting up that contact could be considered to be a criminal conspiracy by all involved, and reinforced by payments made by HW under the “fine” system. Wouldn’t mind hearing Patterico comment at length on the theory of that, at least.
M. Scott Eiland (1edade) — 10/13/2017 @ 3:15 pmWhat would NBC do?
#HerunswithStelter
Colonel Haiku (7680d5) — 10/13/2017 @ 3:27 pm@17. Dana, watching a self-destructive entertainment executive self-destruct is– entertaining.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 10/13/2017 @ 3:39 pmI’ll tell you what, though: Rose McGowan and the potted plant — the reasons for wanting to hush up sex with either are pretty much the same, with the potted plant being slightly less embarrassing and less of a lapse in taste.
nk (dbc370) — 10/13/2017 @ 3:51 pmShocked and dismayed they knew all about his transgressions so much so they built it into his contract.As long as the money rolled in, they looked the other way and their degenerate frontman. Once that gravy train ended, not so much. And that may make them all personally liable. Imagine the board members are not enjoying the primer they are getting about “piercing the corporate veil”. Wonder if Bob Weinstein really hates his brother or if it’s a pose to duck liability.
Bugg (08921e) — 10/13/2017 @ 4:02 pmSadly, this behavior is not confined to the entertainment industry. Wall St. and Silicon Valley, to name just two, don’t have as many household names.
Lenny (5ea732) — 10/13/2017 @ 4:16 pmYou’re right Lenny. This type of behavior occurs wherever women force men to hire them for jobs they aren’t qualified for by using sex. Or where women use men to get ahead of other women by enticing the poor guys into a semi-personal relationship. Happens all the time. They b!tch about how powerful they are while the use men like Weinstein to further their careers then throw him to the wolves when they are making millions. But it is really prevalent in Hollywood because of the limited number of good roles and producers so they concentrate on corrupting the top guys. Poor Weinstein, he’s probably on suicide watch by now. And all those women that used him are making movies and rolling in cash.
Rev.Hoagie® (6bbda7) — 10/13/2017 @ 4:30 pmNot the future producer of the west wing, and some other project I forget about now!
narciso (d1f714) — 10/13/2017 @ 4:36 pmNext time we see weinstein he will be in a white suit.
mg (31009b) — 10/13/2017 @ 4:48 pmHoagie, you big softie, you don’t like to see even the worst people being lynched. Admit it.
nk (dbc370) — 10/13/2017 @ 5:00 pmSo blooms part goes quite aways
https://www.cjr.org/first_person/amazon-roy-price.php
narciso (d1f714) — 10/13/2017 @ 5:06 pmThis diesnt directly involve weuner, but it shows lisas view of ‘susterhood’
narciso (d1f714) — 10/13/2017 @ 5:21 pmLynched? I never mentioned lynching anybody.
Rev.Hoagie® (6bbda7) — 10/13/2017 @ 5:24 pmWhite supremacist Jeff Bezos did act quickly to protect the brand, so Ms. Masters should be happy about that.
But I still giggle at a lesbian who calls herself Isa Dick Hackett. Does she pronounce it Eye-za or Eeza, does anybody know?
nk (dbc370) — 10/13/2017 @ 5:26 pmFiguratively. I meant you didn’t like the ganging up on Weinstein.
nk (dbc370) — 10/13/2017 @ 5:27 pm@35. W/a fall this hard and fast for an ego that big, don’t be surprised if it’s more like under a white sheet. The times ahead will never replace the times lost. Unless, of course, there’s an autobiography to pen and the screenplay pitch: ‘Citizen Shame.’
DCSCA (797bc0) — 10/13/2017 @ 5:31 pmNow I got ya. I’m a tad thick sometimes, nk.
Rev.Hoagie® (6bbda7) — 10/13/2017 @ 5:33 pmIts conceivable that it may have been a misunderstanding on hacketts part but
narciso (d1f714) — 10/13/2017 @ 5:40 pmconsidering that she went the extra mile, I’m not granting that concession.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SXUndh_WT4E/TSOw3lp0MsI/AAAAAAAADSo/L4vqcU9u0fw/s1600/oscarweinstein.jpg
mg (31009b) — 10/13/2017 @ 5:48 pmWe know the north Koreans weren’t really interested in corporate politics however it is illumunuating nonethrless
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/10/is-there-anyone-who-didnt-know.php
narciso (d1f714) — 10/13/2017 @ 5:51 pmWell his cohosting the man show makes it awkward:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jimmy-kimmel-defends-lack-of-harvey-weinstein-jokes-im-not-the-moral-conscience-of-america?via=twitter_page
narciso (d1f714) — 10/13/2017 @ 6:10 pmDidn’t apatow complain then, dropping cosbys name when he hadn’t been a presence in Hollywood for 20 years is amusing:
narciso (d1f714) — 10/13/2017 @ 6:48 pmhttp://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-hollywood-sexual-harassment-20171012-story.html
Greetings:
Maybe Harvey was supposed to share ???
11B40 (6abb5c) — 10/13/2017 @ 7:14 pmI hadn’t considered that possibility.
narciso (d1f714) — 10/13/2017 @ 7:18 pmHere’s a wrinkle- doubt interest would be as pressing over this if it was about harassment in the dry cleaning industry and not the movie biz.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 10/13/2017 @ 7:20 pmWhite supremacist Jeff Bezos
I don’t get it. Are you saying that Amazon should be refusing to carry “bad” books? FOr me, I’m impressed that they are willing to allow all kinds of content to be sold.
Kevin M (752a26) — 10/13/2017 @ 8:46 pmThis is no doubt why so many board members quit last week.
Board: “Let’s fire that assh0le!”
Kevin M (752a26) — 10/13/2017 @ 8:49 pmCounsel: “No can do. His employment contract allows it.”
Board: “WTFFF!”
Counsel: “It’s right here on page 47. Didn’t you read it>”
Board: “I’m Fing out of here!”
Tongue in cheek, although you never can quite tell. Bezos virtue signaling with the post
narciso (d1f714) — 10/13/2017 @ 8:50 pm, so the list of victims is long Eva green, and Mrs. Ion griffud, (although he did two progressively worse fantastic four films)
It would seem like any suits will now include The Weinstein Company and may well name individuals as co-conspirators and/or accomplices.
Kevin M (752a26) — 10/13/2017 @ 8:51 pmI guess there is a distinction between criminal matters where the statutevof limitations delineate, and civil lawsuits.
narciso (d1f714) — 10/13/2017 @ 9:09 pmIf the media can label the kid who ran over the Antifas in Charlottesville a Nazi-sympathizer (prefacing his name with the term) because, according to his high school teacher, he wrote an essay about the Waffen-SS ….
nk (dbc370) — 10/13/2017 @ 9:11 pmSo the history channel was alt right before its time, before Dan brown abpnd superstorms
narciso (d1f714) — 10/13/2017 @ 9:17 pmAnd even if I agree with you about the books, what about the other stuff sexual fetishist (NOT SAFE FOR WORK) and climate change denialist Jeff Bezos sells? 😉
nk (dbc370) — 10/13/2017 @ 9:19 pmThere are many rooms in the mansion, as angleton once said.
narciso (d1f714) — 10/13/2017 @ 9:22 pm@ Kevin M: This week the board dropped from seven members, which included reps from the institutional investors who collectively own the majority of the company, down to Harvey (who’s been fired from his job but is still a director), his brother, and David Russell, whose film
The institutional investors (Fidelity, Morgan Stanley, etc.) are dumping their positions — the shares aren’t registered and can only go in qualified private placements, meaning to other “qualified investors” (meaning people who are so rich the law doesn’t bother to protect their investments through the securities laws). But the company is ultimately likely to end up, in my opinion, either being bought by a bottom-fisher (an Icahn type, but more likely a dot-com billionaire) and renamed with new management, or else placed into a bankruptcy or receivership which will auction off its intellectual property (which has considerable market value and might not carry full stink) and then self-liquidate. Running it through bankruptcy might actually be the best idea for the new owners, because they could probably get the harassment claims classified so far down among the creditors that the claimants would all end up with nothing, the reorganized company’s liabilities to them having been discharged. (That also would solve the seriously intractable problem if the new CA “forever” statute of limitations for sexual assault applies to some or all of these claims; without bankruptcy, those could float out in the woods indefinitely, with no closure.)
Resigning, alas for the four directors who’ve just bailed, will be poor mitigation of their potential liability if some of the many lawsuits bring those ex-directors in as additional defendants in their individual capacities.
Whether anyone besides the company’s officers and directors get sued individually — enablers who Hollywood, NYC, and/or DC — is harder to predict. There are publicity hungry lawyers who will include obviously tenuous defendants to grab a headline; the later dismissal is on page F22 (or would be if there were any newspapers published with that many pages anymore). I don’t think any of those people have much, if any, serious civil liability to the potential sexual assault/harassment plaintiffs. You’d have to have smoking gun documents admitting to participation in an overt civil conspiracy to intimidate witnesses or the like.
Beldar (fa637a) — 10/13/2017 @ 9:25 pm@ nk (#57): I made dozens of WW1 and WW2 models of German aircraft, bearing either the Iron Cross or the Swastika, as a kid. Who else where my Spitfires and my Mustangs and my Sopwith Camels going to dogfight with? So I condemn myself before the Left gets around to me.
Beldar (fa637a) — 10/13/2017 @ 9:29 pmThe Weinstein brothers’ share, I also predict, will be either litigated or compromised into a small, face-saving fraction of its fair-market-value as of a month ago. The other shareholders’ claims against the brothers and the other board members are going to dwarf the sexual assault claims I suspect, because those shareholders are looking a serious loss in market value directly attributable to actions undertaken by the board that were contrary to public policy and objectively reckless. Certainly any bankruptcy would end up squeezing them out.
Note: A company is technically bankrupt if it is unable to pay its bills and obligations on a current basis as they come due, and it only takes three unpaid creditors to force an involuntary bankruptcy filing. So bankruptcy may be an option despite the fact that the company will still have a considerable net worth that’s going to be really illiquid otherwise.
Beldar (fa637a) — 10/13/2017 @ 9:36 pmWell, bah. Ignore what I said about the number of creditors above, I think I was thinking of personal involuntaries, not company ones.
Beldar (fa637a) — 10/13/2017 @ 9:39 pmYes abandoning ship, after uyiu starred into the iceberg. Isn’t the bravest move. But its of a par with equifax, Yahoo. Yadda Yadda.
narciso (d1f714) — 10/13/2017 @ 9:41 pmBest comedy line delivered from Hollywood in 2017:
Spoken like a man whose almost entire net worth is now at risk if he can’t put a credible fig leaf on the cross-claims he’ll be filing soon against his co-defendant brother for “getting Bob into all this.”
This is just another scumbag spouting lies to corrupt media desperate to believe them. Circle the drain with your bro, Bob.
Beldar (fa637a) — 10/14/2017 @ 10:33 amForgot the link, from the Hollywood Reporter no less. Poor, poor Bob.
Beldar (fa637a) — 10/14/2017 @ 10:33 amHarvey Weinstein walks into a board meeting of the Weinstein Company and sees all the directors each molesting a potted plant. He says, “If you guys can do it, so can I”. He goes out to reception area, picks up a potted plan, and carries it back to the boardroom. All the other directors start laughing. Harvey says, “What are you all laughing about? You’re all still doing it!” And Bob says, “You picked the ugly one”.
nk (dbc370) — 10/14/2017 @ 11:45 amsweet puerto rican jesus someone needs to make flash cards for all the hollywood rapers and the victim chicks
it makes you wonder
you think anyone in the national NFL pedophile league ever did bad touch on a women?
how far does this go
happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/14/2017 @ 11:50 amBreaking- The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has expelled Harvey Weinstein from the Academy.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 10/14/2017 @ 1:24 pm“Oscar, Oscar, Oscar!” – Felix Unger [Tony Randall] ‘The Odd Couple’ ABC TV
oh dear god sh!t’s gittin real now
happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/14/2017 @ 1:33 pm@71. There is a certain irony in this, Mr. Feet, when you consider why AMPAS was more or less forced into existence by the Biz in the first place thanks mainly to pre-code hanky-panky.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 10/14/2017 @ 1:49 pmit’s been a long march
happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/14/2017 @ 1:52 pm“Best comedy line delivered from Hollywood in 2017:
While he [Bob Weinstein] says he knew his brother [Harvey] was unfaithful to wife Georgina Chapman, Bob insists he had no idea about “the type of predator that he was” and is sickened by Harvey’s seeming lack of remorse. “I have a brother that’s indefensible and crazy,” says Bob, adding, “I want him to get the justice that he deserves.”
Spoken like a man whose almost entire net worth is now at risk if he can’t put a credible fig leaf on the cross-claims he’ll be filing soon against his co-defendant brother for “getting Bob into all this.”
This is just another scumbag spouting lies to corrupt media desperate to believe them. Circle the drain with your bro, Bob.”
The desperate charade of a man looking down the barrel of fiscal insolvency after a lifetime of high end steak dinners, 4 star hotels, big cars and bigger houses. IT’S OVER BOBBY. OVER.
Bugg (08921e) — 10/14/2017 @ 6:07 pmThey are the real life piranha bros
narciso (d1f714) — 10/14/2017 @ 6:10 pmSpeaking of moving pitchers, there are two having a duel in LA. 0-0, top of the fourth.
nk (dbc370) — 10/14/2017 @ 6:13 pmThey won’t be broke. They’ll have most of their nest egg stashed in trusts and other people’s names.
nk (dbc370) — 10/14/2017 @ 6:14 pm2-0, Cubs, now. You look away for just one minute ….
nk (dbc370) — 10/14/2017 @ 6:17 pmGood ole days
mg (31009b) — 10/14/2017 @ 6:18 pmhttps://78.media.tumblr.com/0113e1abad32199c5e9dadf6e4cdf933/tumblr_nrdnowSjDe1qzpnnro1_500.jpg
Is “sexual harassment” – meaning like trying (without touching) to get women to AGREE to sleep with him in exchange for promotion, and possible retaliation for not doing so, or for leaving him, ALL that he did?
Sammy Finkelman (9f1a19) — 10/15/2017 @ 10:01 amnarciso (d1f714) — 10/13/2017 @ 11:12 am
BOB Weinstein says he “divorced” his brother five years ago. That was apparently because of the other major problem with Harvey Weinstein: his bullying or temper tantrums. He said he just couldn’t stand to be in the same room with him or something. But he said he didn’t “out” him. He was not trying to gte him out of the company.
Sammy Finkelman (9f1a19) — 10/15/2017 @ 10:08 amAt Oscars, Harvey Weinstein Thanked More Than God, According to 2015 Analysis
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 10/16/2017 @ 8:40 amLet’s face it–as long as Harvey was making millions of dollars for everyone, Hollywood was willing to turn a blind eye to his sex crimes, because that’s what they were. Once the cash stopped rolling in, apparently he was fair game. It’s hard to understand how the company can say they didn’t know about this, when they drafted an employment agreement that protected the company from liability for his sex offenses. And then Hollywood turns around and has the nerve to lecture the rest of us on morality!
ROCHF (877dba) — 10/16/2017 @ 10:54 amThe Weinstein Company has now put its yarbles into the hands of Colony Capital, a real estate and investments fund (read: bottom fisher), who has agreed to provide it with a cash infusion — undoubtedly to stave off an involuntary bankruptcy as the company melts down:
Out, damned spot! out, I say! … What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?–Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.
Note that now that the yarbles are secure and the investors asuaged that their investments won’t freefall into involuntary liquidation, Colony Capital can surely figure out exactly how it wants to dismember and distribute the corpse of The Weinstein Company. I expect that will include, as I’ve previously predicted here, driving or negotiating the value of Harvey’s and Bob’s shares to near-zero face-saving value. Gosh, I hope so.
Beldar (fa637a) — 10/16/2017 @ 11:25 amHere’s something, which tells you, as yu read on, that Harvey Weinstein was occasionally successful: (bolded text mne, and one bad word left out)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BaJiAhyn7Y5/
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 10/16/2017 @ 11:54 ambeldar @84 is that yarbles or marbles?
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 10/16/2017 @ 11:55 amYarbles.
Beldar (fa637a) — 10/16/2017 @ 12:09 pmWhat are yarbles?
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 10/16/2017 @ 12:20 pmMr. Finkelman, I well know you’re a proficient internet researcher, and I wouldn’t want to deny you the opportunity to find this out for yourself, sir. 😀
Beldar (fa637a) — 10/16/2017 @ 12:22 pmWell, somebody has decided to wage a write-in campaign against Cyrus Vance.
http://nycbreakingnews.com/2017/10/13/peter-gleason-longtime-critic-of-cy-vance-joins-manhattan-da-race-new-york-daily-news/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/longtime-critic-cy-vance-joins-manhattan-da-race-article-1.3560482
Cyrus Vance may have in general, let people go when they hired expensive lawyers.
There is one thing about prosecutors: They don’t like to lose cases – they don’t like even to take chances . Even though they should.
Now Cyrus Vance did apparently prosecute some people unjustly. That also happens, and with the same prosecutors who do the other thing.
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 10/16/2017 @ 12:25 pmOpen Secret Department:
https://pagesix.com/2017/10/11/weinstein-staffer-outed-him-years-ago-in-memoir/
He told her to withdraw the book, and said it would harm his campaign for an Oacar. (Inside Edition)
She says she left out sordid details because she still considered him a friend and didn’t know how bad it was.
Sammy Finkelman (26a080) — 10/17/2017 @ 6:08 pm“British aristocrat”? You can stop believing right there. Since when do British aristocrats work for Harvey Weinsteins?
nk (dbc370) — 10/17/2017 @ 6:15 pmkevin spacey has a sturdy moral compass and a profound sense of decency and honor
happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/17/2017 @ 6:18 pmhah just kidding
happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/17/2017 @ 6:18 pmIt was a long strange trip there
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/dec/04/ivana-lowell-father-memoir
narciso (d1f714) — 10/17/2017 @ 6:28 pm